Sensory Lead Acute Adult Mental Health Inpatient

5 months ago

Derby, United Kingdom Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Sensory Lead for Mental Health Inpatient Services
**Full time**: 37.5 hours per week
**Base**: Radbourne Unit, Royal Derby Hospital, Derby

A unique role has been created within our Making Room For Dignity Program to lead in enabling the Derbyshire mental health inpatient environments to be sensory friendly and utilise the newly established sensory environments optimally. The role will involve managing and utilising a budget to; support the co-design and engagement, implement adaptions to the environments and produce training materials. Such person will be responsible for and training of staff in the safe use of specialist equipment required and take the responsibility of safe assessing, prescription and ordering specialist equipment.

So now let’s talk about you

1. Are you a registered Occupational Therapist or Speech and Language Therapist?
2. Are you educated to degree level or hold demonstrable equivalent experience?
3. Do you have a postgraduate certificate, diploma or master's degree in Sensory Integration?
4. Do you have a proven track record in service user and carer engagement and involvement in service development?
5. Do you hold have exceptional leadership skills and proven ability to motivate others?
6. Do you have a proven track record in working across systems and with partners to deliver improved services?
7. Are you able to travel to locations across Derbyshire as required?
- Demonstrate clinical professional knowledge and experience at an advanced senior level of this area of expertise.
- Ability to use Quality Improvement, Research and Clinical Audit to improve practice.
- Demonstrate awareness and knowledge of wider patient experience agenda.
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance and the Quality Improvement agenda.
- Demonstrate evidence of leading clinical strategic change initiatives.
- Detailed knowledge of the relevant legislation and clinical risk management/patient safety planning.
- Demonstrate leadership and influencing skills.
- Ability to inspire confidence within teams, multi-professional groups, and individual professionals and in a multi-disciplinary environment.
- To have an awareness of Positive Behavioural Support Plans and Safe & wellness plan and how a person’s sensory needs impact behaviour.
- Experience of working within a Multi-Disciplinary Team in the to establish the function of a person’s behaviour and their care needs.
- Practical experience of using sensory integration approaches in clinical practice.
- Demonstrate understanding of a trauma-based approach to care and good safeguarding principles.

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as ‘good’ by the Care Quality Commission; we have achieved this by providing high quality patient care, within an inclusive organisation that works together and shows care and compassion for each other.

**Here are just some of the benefits of working for DHCFT**:
Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing development
Generous NHS pension scheme
Health service discounts and online benefits
Incremental pay progression
Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
Access to our LGBT+ Network, Disability and Wellness Group, BME Staff Support Network, Armed Forces Network, Women's Network, Multi-Faith Forum and Christian Network
Health and wellbeing opportunities
Structured learning and development opportunities

As an employee it will be your responsibility to ensure that your behaviour and values reflect those set out in the DHCFT Way outlined on our website and in the additional information provided.

DHCFT is an NHS Trust that strives for innovation and improvement for the service and individuals that work within it. Our Vision is to make a positive difference in people’s lives by improving health and wellbeing. Our objectives are to provide great care, be a great place to work and best use of money. Our values of People first, Respect, Honesty, & Do your best are why our workforce chose to work for the NHS & DHCFT.

To lead and imbibe sensory treatment strategies in the acute adult mental health inpatient services in the acute inpatient services (Radbourne, Kingsway and Hartington). This includes optimising the use of our new sensory-adapted inpatient environments, including utilising them to meet the needs of people with sensory needs.

To manage and utilise the budget to support the co-design and engagement and implement adaptations to the Adult Mental Health inpatient environments.

To devise an evidence-based training package for mental health inpatient staff, focussing on recognition and response to sensory-related issues and to lead on its impl

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