Senior Community Dementia Practitioner

2 weeks ago


Swindon, United Kingdom Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Full time

We are excited to have a Senior Practitioner role covering both Hodson and Liddington Wards.This post creates an opportunity for clinical leadership, working across both The Functional and Organic Later Life wards, offering training and supervision, completing audits, delivering QI projects and ensuring compliance with best practice. The post holder will take the lead in Patient Safety Incident Response Framework, working alongside the Quality Improvement lead. The Senior practitioner will alongside the ward manager play an active role in Bed management, attending various bed meetings over the course of the week.Hodson is a 12 bedded mixed gender functional ward, where later life service users may present with complex mental health needs, physical health needs and varying risks. Liddington is a 12 bedded Organic Ward where later life service users often present with Dementia type illnesses and often have complex needs requiring skilled interventions. The post holder will work closely with both ward managers and our other Senior Practitioner who covers the Acute/Rehab wards. They will also be part of a strong multi-disciplinary team on both wards and the wider leadership team of the hospital.The post holder will form a strong network of allies, both within the locality and the Trust.
This senior practitioner role will be based at Victoria Centre on the Great Western Hospital site. The post holder will work across both wards, ensuring consistency and oversight in the delivery of clinical training and supervision, particularly around physical health, risk management and sexual safety.


Deliver bitesize training on wards
Develop a network of leads across all clinical wards and teams
Obtain data and prepare reports for Locality Quality and Standards and Locality Physical Health Group.
Deliver Quality Improvement Projects, together with QI lead.
Development of Standard Operating Procedures in line with contract requirements.
Maintenance of Continued Professional Development in order to maintain and develop skills to deliver best patient care.
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.


At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
This senior practitioner role will be based at Victoria Centre on the Great Western Site covering both Hodson and Liddington


The post will work across all wards, ensuring consistency and oversight in the delivery of clinical training and supervision, particularly around physical health, risk management and sexual safety.


Deliver bitesize training on wards.
Develop a network of leads across all clinical wards and teams.
Obtain data and prepare reports for Locality Quality and Standards and Locality Physical Health Group.
Deliver Quality Improvement Projects, together with QI lead.
Development of Standard Operating Procedures in line with contract requirements.
Maintenance of Continued Professional Development in order to maintain and develop skills to deliver best patient care.
Experience in Band 6 inpatient role


Evidence of knowledge around Risk / Health and safety


Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Great Western Hospital



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