Practice Development Practitioner

2 weeks ago


Middlesbrough, United Kingdom NHS Full time
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Inpatient Adult Learning Disability Services for the role of Practice Development Practitioner.

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, innovative and experienced clinician to support the improvement of the lives of people with learning disabilities by minimising the impact of their condition. This will be through effective clinical leadership and the development of highly skilled staff to support the delivery of excellent services to promote recovery and wellbeing for all service users. Individuals will maintain responsibility for ensuring the services they cover provide a progressive learning and development environment for all grades of staff including temporary staff.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be expected to support our Adult Learning Disability wards in the Durham Tees Valley area, currently at Bankfields Court, Middlesbrough.

Your role will be to ensure a high standard of care delivery through role modelling, specialist knowledge and skills in clinical practice, providing advice, mentoring, supervision and training across services, while promoting and contributing to inter-professional learning activities across services and implement in-house teaching.

The successful applicant will be expected to implement key practice developments and quality initiatives in order to achieve excellence in patient care in partnership with nursing and clinical multidisciplinary teams. They will also be responsible for their own personal and professional development whilst undertaking this role and at time representing their Associate Director of Nursing or professional lead as required.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description for full details of the role and main responsibilities. This includes essential criteria for prospective applicants.

Additional contact details: Eve Newbury - Associate Director of Nursing evenewbury@nhs.net

Person Specification Qualifications
  • Current professional registration with professional body
  • Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma supplemented by specialist training or equivalent experience to master's level equivalent
  • Recognised clinical teaching qualification or equivalent clinical mentoring and teaching experience
  • Leadership qualification or willingness to work towards. Qualification must be achieved within agreed timescale.
  • Evidence of continuous personal development
  • Quality Improvement Systems for Leaders or willing to undertake within agreed timescale
  • Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
Experience
  • Significant experience of working with people with complex mental health problems within inpatient or community mental health / memory services
  • Extensive experience working collaboratively with staff, service users and their families/carers
  • Demonstrable experience in a clinical leadership role
  • Extensive experience providing clinical supervision, mentoring and teaching to healthcare professionals and students.
  • Experience of been involved in the delivering of change and service improvement.
  • Experience of resolving complex and challenging situations in collaboration with other disciplines and agencies
Knowledge
  • Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
  • Significant evidenced based knowledge of best practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
  • Good understanding of relevant legislation and guidance (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, CPA, Safe Staffing) and its application in practice.
  • Good understanding of clinical governance and its application in practice.
  • Good understanding of Recovery principles and application in practice
  • Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice.
  • Detailed understanding of Clinical Risk Assessment and Management/Harm Minimisation and its application in practice.
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.

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