Job summary
We are excited to offer a permanent opportunity for a motivated Physical Health Assistant Practitioner to join the Community Learning Disability Team, covering Lincolnshire countywide (base TBC).
This post provides the opportunity for someone with experience working as a Physical Health Assistant Practitioner, who has an interest in working with adults with learning disabilities and complex health needs.
Within this role you will work as part of a well-established multi-disciplinary team, offering a range of specialist health interventions to people with a learning disability within their place of normal residence, respite and day care placements.
Main duties of the job
- You will support the Physical Health Liaison Nurse and Acute Liaison Nurse within the Learning Disability team.
- Supporting interventions in accordance with care plans completed by the qualified staff.
- Being a compassionate, organised, team player with excellent communication skills and effective time management skills are key.
- Enthusiasm and motivation are just as important as your experience for this role.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work in a variety of settings as allocated by the Acute Liaison nurse.
- Provide support to people with learning disabilities, their carers and families including face to face working as allocated by Physical Health Liaison Practitioner. Support may include virtual and telephone contacts when planning appointments.
- Gather relevant information to draft a reasonable adjustment care plan under the direction of the acute liaison nurses.
- Attend the learning disability MDT hub meetings as required.
- Gather information for individuals referred to the Acute Liaison Service including supporting information gathering for the Learning Disability Bundle , risk assessments, care plans under the direction of a registered practitioner.
- Liaise with ULHT, community health care services hospitals and GP practices to actively support people with learning disabilities to access mainstream primary and secondary acute health services.
- Undertake training as required to meet service requirements.
- Provide a high standard of clinical care in ones own practice and the teams practice.
- Work flexibly to meet service need.
- Coordinate, and prioritise own workload under the direction of the Acute Liaison Nurse Undertake delegated aspects of the role whilst maintaining responsibility for their own clinical caseload.
- To be responsible for keeping caseload reviewed and updated liaising with Acute Liaison nurse and Safeguarding Lead The post holder will receive clinical and management supervision, a yearly appraisal and mandatory training in line with LPFTs policies.
- Assist in obtaining valid patient consent and work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm and raise concerns to ULHT/LPFT safeguarding as appropriate.
- Work within LPFT and ULHT agreed policies and procedures, protocols, promote best practice and. ensure adherence to Safeguarding policies and procedures across services.
- Understand the implications of the Mental Capacity Act and acts to assess capacity as appropriate.
- You may occasionally be asked to undertake such other duties that are deemed necessary in order to support business continuity within the Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work in a variety of settings as allocated by the Acute Liaison nurse.
- Provide support to people with learning disabilities, their carers and families including face to face working as allocated by Physical Health Liaison Practitioner. Support may include virtual and telephone contacts when planning appointments.
- Gather relevant information to draft a reasonable adjustment care plan under the direction of the acute liaison nurses.
- Attend the learning disability MDT hub meetings as required.
- Gather information for individuals referred to the Acute Liaison Service including supporting information gathering for the Learning Disability Bundle , risk assessments, care plans under the direction of a registered practitioner.
- Liaise with ULHT, community health care services hospitals and GP practices to actively support people with learning disabilities to access mainstream primary and secondary acute health services.
- Undertake training as required to meet service requirements.
- Provide a high standard of clinical care in ones own practice and the teams practice.
- Work flexibly to meet service need.
- Coordinate, and prioritise own workload under the direction of the Acute Liaison Nurse Undertake delegated aspects of the role whilst maintaining responsibility for their own clinical caseload.
- To be responsible for keeping caseload reviewed and updated liaising with Acute Liaison nurse and Safeguarding Lead The post holder will receive clinical and management supervision, a yearly appraisal and mandatory training in line with LPFTs policies.
- Assist in obtaining valid patient consent and work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
- Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm and raise concerns to ULHT/LPFT safeguarding as appropriate.
- Work within LPFT and ULHT agreed policies and procedures, protocols, promote best practice and. ensure adherence to Safeguarding policies and procedures across services.
- Understand the implications of the Mental Capacity Act and acts to assess capacity as appropriate.
- You may occasionally be asked to undertake such other duties that are deemed necessary in order to support business continuity within the Trust.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good standard of general education to GCSE level or equivalent including English and maths.
- Knowledge of learning disabilities through a combination of short courses or equivalent experience (equivalent to diploma level)
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
Desirable
- Nurse Associate registration
- Specific learning disability qualification such as Makaton, PBS
- Evidence of Safeguarding and Mental Capacity training.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with people with learning disabilities and supporting their health needs
- Evidence of the ability to work autonomously and prioritise their own caseload
- Experience of working in social health care settings.
- An understanding of the health inequalities experienced by people with learning disabilities
- An awareness of the national agenda for learning disabilities.
- An awareness of the Mental Capacity Act.
Desirable
- Experience of working with adults with a learning disability
- Experience of working in hospital or community health settings
- Experience of working with own caseload.
Special Requirements
Essential
- Access to own vehicle The ability to travel independently countywide
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good standard of general education to GCSE level or equivalent including English and maths.
- Knowledge of learning disabilities through a combination of short courses or equivalent experience (equivalent to diploma level)
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
Desirable
- Nurse Associate registration
- Specific learning disability qualification such as Makaton, PBS
- Evidence of Safeguarding and Mental Capacity training.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with people with learning disabilities and supporting their health needs
- Evidence of the ability to work autonomously and prioritise their own caseload
- Experience of working in social health care settings.
- An understanding of the health inequalities experienced by people with learning disabilities
- An awareness of the national agenda for learning disabilities.
- An awareness of the Mental Capacity Act.
Desirable
- Experience of working with adults with a learning disability
- Experience of working in hospital or community health settings
- Experience of working with own caseload.
Special Requirements
Essential
- Access to own vehicle The ability to travel independently countywide
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
