Learning Disability Clinical Project Officer

Job summary

The Sirona Adult Learning Disability Health Service (ALDHS):

The ALDHS is a centre of excellence for specialist learning disability health needs. We are organised in 3 localities where multidisciplinary teams enable our service users to access health services through direct care, liaison with other services and offering support and training on how to work with people who have a learning disability (LD) and how to make reasonable adjustments.

Locations:

New Friends Hall, Stapleton, Bristol Castlewood, Tickenham Road, Clevedon, North Somerset Church House, 1 Church Road, Soundwell, Bristol

The Role:

This post has been newly developed and an exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner to be involved with improving health outcomes for people with a Learning Disability across the system.

The purpose of this role is to support the learning from lives and deaths (LeDeR) national programme, and local key themes and trends, supporting the service specification of ensuring that learning disability is "everyone's business". In conjunction with ALDH Clinical Project Co-ordinator, this role will provide support and advice to staff across the service as required.

The role will support the development and delivery of service improvements resulting from key themes from LeDeR, as well as other projects and training to promote inclusion and improved health outcomes for people with LD.

Main duties of the job

The Learning Disability Clinical Project Officer will work alongside health service colleagues and service users to identify barriers for people with a Learning Disability to accessing their services. The postholder will also be required to undertake reviews of research available on Learning Disabilities access to health care, the reasonable adjustments used and the evidence produced. Including from Learning from Lives and Deaths People with a Learning Disability and autistic people (LeDeR). The role will be varied in approaches and interventions required. Comprehensive communication and liaison skills are essential to support the development of pathways and reasonable adjustments required.

The successful applicant will have comprehensive understanding of the health needs of people who have a learning disability. In addition, understanding the barriers people with a learning disability face in accessing healthcare and the reasonable adjustments required to access them is essential for this role. The successful applicant will be passionate about facilitating access to healthcare services and have the clinical knowledge and skills to meet the needs of the learning disability population.

About us

We are Sirona care & health, a Community Interest Company committed to providing local communities with a range of high-quality specialist healthcare services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. For us, it's about the personal approach; we take pride in what we do and deliver the high standard of care we would expect for ourselves and our families.

At Sirona, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of colleagues, people and communities. We welcome applications from all who feel they have the skills and attributes to make a real difference.

Benefits:

We offer NHS Agenda for Change Salary, Terms and Conditions and the NHS pension scheme plus much more!Please see the benefits leaflet attached to this advert for details.

We offer NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) salary including annual leave supplement, Stakeholder pension, a range of health and wellbeing incentives, high street discounts, plus much more!

Employer details

Employer name

Sirona care & health CIC

Address

New friends Hall

Heath House Lane

Bristol

BS16 1EQ

Employer's website

https://www.sirona-cic.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Sirona care & health CIC

Address

New friends Hall

Heath House Lane

Bristol

BS16 1EQ

Employer's website

https://www.sirona-cic.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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