Job summary
Band 4 AHP Assistant - Community Forensic Team - 1 fixed term (1 year) full time post
Learning Disabilities Division
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and passionate Allied Health Professional (AHP) Assistant to join the Birmingham Community Forensic Team within the Adult Learning Disability Service.
The Adult Learning Disability Service is a provider of care for adults with learning disabilities aged 19 and over across Birmingham. We are dedicated to providing high-quality services that are close to where people live and are person centred to enable people with a learning disability to live their best lives.
You will have access to professional support from experienced clinicians and will receive regular clinical supervision.
If you have experience of working with people with a learning disability and you are enthusiastic about working in forensics we welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
You will be supporting the assessments and interventions of the Speech and Language Therapist and Occupational Therapist. This may involve creating easy read documents to help the individual understand important information or creating visual timetables to help the individual engage with meaningful activities.
We want to understand how you demonstrate the values, skills and knowledge that we are looking for. Please ensure that you read the job description and person specification attached below as this will help you complete your application.
About us
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
IMPORTANT
- Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process
- Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ3 or equivalent qualification.
- Willing to undertake departmental and external training.
- BTec SLTA/OTA qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Has experience of working with people with learning disabilities/communication difficulties/behaviours that challenge or cause a forensic risk, in health or third sector setting.
- Is able to independently carry out tasks with a degree of planning and autonomy
- Is able to play an active role in a team.
- Is able to reflect on own skills and support others in developing reflective practice through supervision.
- Is able to demonstrate an ability to plan and implement work based activities in individual and/or group situations.
- Has experience of training other professionals.
- Has experience of supervision of others in work situations.
skills and knowledge
Essential
- Has excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- Has literacy skills to a level to be able to extract information and summarise in clinical notes.
- Has knowledge of specific SLT/OT procedures/worked with an SLT/OT
- Able to organise and carry out accurate observations of the communication and interaction skills of clients and their communication partners in various environments, and suggest next course of action.
- Has experience of producing and modifying resources and equipment for people with difficulties in communicating/engaging
- Able to support and train multi-agency team/parents or carers to work with individuals to develop, implement and evaluate programmes
- Has knowledge of communication/engagement and is able to promote this in all environments by modeling and through explanation
- Is able to independently manage and organise time for a range of people within agreed timescales
- IT literate and able to use a range of specialist programmes
- Has experience of delivering a communication/engagement programme
personal qualities
Essential
- Promote and support the equality, diversity, rights and responsibilities of individuals. Team Player
other job requirements
Essential
- Ability and willingness to move around the city.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ3 or equivalent qualification.
- Willing to undertake departmental and external training.
- BTec SLTA/OTA qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Has experience of working with people with learning disabilities/communication difficulties/behaviours that challenge or cause a forensic risk, in health or third sector setting.
- Is able to independently carry out tasks with a degree of planning and autonomy
- Is able to play an active role in a team.
- Is able to reflect on own skills and support others in developing reflective practice through supervision.
- Is able to demonstrate an ability to plan and implement work based activities in individual and/or group situations.
- Has experience of training other professionals.
- Has experience of supervision of others in work situations.
skills and knowledge
Essential
- Has excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- Has literacy skills to a level to be able to extract information and summarise in clinical notes.
- Has knowledge of specific SLT/OT procedures/worked with an SLT/OT
- Able to organise and carry out accurate observations of the communication and interaction skills of clients and their communication partners in various environments, and suggest next course of action.
- Has experience of producing and modifying resources and equipment for people with difficulties in communicating/engaging
- Able to support and train multi-agency team/parents or carers to work with individuals to develop, implement and evaluate programmes
- Has knowledge of communication/engagement and is able to promote this in all environments by modeling and through explanation
- Is able to independently manage and organise time for a range of people within agreed timescales
- IT literate and able to use a range of specialist programmes
- Has experience of delivering a communication/engagement programme
personal qualities
Essential
- Promote and support the equality, diversity, rights and responsibilities of individuals. Team Player
other job requirements
Essential
- Ability and willingness to move around the city.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
