Specialist Practitioner

Job summary

The post offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced children's learning disability, family nurse, Occupational Therapist or Clinical Psychologist to join an established team offering assessment and parenting intervention service to parents who experience a learning disability. This is varied work and the role provides opportunities to work across learning disability, children's, mental health services and voluntary organisations.

The service uses a range of therapeutic approaches to meet the needs of parents and families referred to the service. As part of the role training and supervision in Video Interaction Guidance will be available as this is a core intervention offered by the service. The post holder will be involved in providing detailed assessments of parents using a range of assessment methods in order to understand parents' needs and plan interventions to improve outcomes for children. There will be opportunities to provide supervision and consultation to other professionals and agencies together with delivering multi-agency training, research and service development.

The post holder will be expected to contribute to our Early Intervention Project which will mean completing initial assessments with expectant mothers and parents with young babies. An interest and/or experience of using attachment informed intervention and assessments and infant mental health would therefore be really useful.

Main duties of the job

o Multi-Agency partnership working Adult and Children Services in Cornwall, Devon ando Plymouth and throughout the UK as requiredo Midwifery teams at RCHT and in the Communityo Learning disability liaison services, both community and RCHTo Adult Learning Disability Services in CPFTo People who use CFT services and their Carers / Relatives and advocateso Cornwall Advocacy services, Home start and other voluntary sector organisationso CFT Legal Departmento General Medical Practitioners, Consultants, Clinicianso Local Authority Safeguarding Unit - Triage team, Risk Managers, Service Managerso Safeguarding Adult Board and Safeguarding Children Boardo Cornwall Council Multi Agency Referral Unit and any other Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubo SARC Sexual Abuse Referral Centreo Third Party Sector organisations such as First Light and housing charitieso Adult Social Care Services, Coordinating Managers, Soci

About us

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.Just over 532,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.