Learning Disability Screening Practitioner
3 weeks ago
Detailed job description
and main responsibilities·To provide a high-quality person-centered approach to care delivery which always considers people’s safety, privacy and dignity.
·Clarify reasons for persons being on hold or ceased from programmes, and enable case finding of persons with learning disability and eligible for screening and learning re barriers to access.
·Identifying learnings in relation to the quality and completeness of the Learning Disability registers and prompt review where improvement needed.
·Provide supervision, mentorship, training and clinical support to students and trained practitioners.
·Undertake a scoping review, and develop and implement a plan to increase screening uptake, which reflects any variation across Dorset e.g. by PCN;* and inform the development of a sustainable delivery model moving forwards which meets the needs of persons with learning disability and their carers.
·Example activities might include: actions to improve completion of screening section in annual health checks, workforce education and training, development and awareness raising of reasonable adjustment pathways (as needed), co-production of resources with lived experience partners.
·To support the Dorset Screening programme service following the NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) which includes priority commitments to support people with Learning Disability access screening and improving health inequalities.
·To work with CTLD MDTs and Primary Care providing support to access the national screening programs for patients with a learning disability.
Full details are provided in the Job Description
Person specification
Knowledge Skills and Training
Essential criteria
Registered practitioner, public health professional or lived experience peer worker to degree/diploma level supplemented by post Registration diploma level specialist training and/or short courses or demonstrable extensive experience in the relevant specialty
Desirable criteria
Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
Job Specific Experience
Essential criteria
Experience at Practitioner Band 5 level or equivalent if non-NHS background Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and health promotion interventions in area of specialism Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
Desirable criteria
Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
Able to communicate effectively at different levels of the organisation and with staff, patient/service users, visitors or external organisations both verbally and in writing in the exchange of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information which may require the use of negotiating and/or persuasive skills. Able to overcome barriers to understanding where there are physical or Cognitive barriers. Experience of planning and organising complex activities, e.g. organise own time and that of junior staff and learners, planning off duty rotas and undertaking discharge planning involving co-ordination with other agencies. Ability to evaluate care leading to improvement in quality standards and service improvement
Managerial experience
Desirable criteria
Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff-
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