Job summary
We are excited to have a Senior Practitioner role covering both Ashdown and Beechlydene Ward at Fountain Way Hospital in Salisbury.
This post creates a new opportunity for clinical leadership, working across both a male psychiatric intensive care unit and a mixed acute ward, offering training and supervision, completing audits, delivering QI projects and ensuring compliance with best practice. The post holder will take the lead in preparing reports about Physical Health, and representing the locality in Trust wide meetings.
There are 27 service users wo are in-patients on Ashdown and Beechlydene and may present with complex physical health needs and varying risks. The post holder will work closely with both ward managers and our other Senior Practitioner who covers the later life 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.
Main duties of the job
This senior practitioner role will be based at Fountain Way Hospital working across both Beechlydene and Ashdown Ward.
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.
Key responsibilities:
- Deliver bitesize training on wards
- Develop a network of leads across all clinical wards and teams
- Deliver induction sessions as needed
- Contribute to regular audits, ensuring compliance with Trust expectations
- Obtain data and prepare reports for Locality Quality and Standards and Locality Physical Health Group
- Attend Trustwide meetings representing the Locality
- Deliver Quality Improvement Projects, together with QI lead
- Work closely with MDT on both wards.
- Engage with National Forums as appropriate to ensure that the wards are in line with Best Practice
- Provide management and / or clinical supervision to leads in this clinical area
- Development of Standard Operating Procedures in line with contract requirements
- Maintain links with Trust Lead to ensure compliance
- Maintenance of Continued Professional Development in order to maintain and develop skills to deliver best patient care.
About us
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 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This senior practitioner role will be based at Fountain Way Hospital working across both Beechlydene and Ashdown Ward.
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.
Key responsibilities:
- Deliver bitesize training on wards
- Develop a network of leads across all clinical wards and teams
- Deliver induction sessions as needed
- Contribute to regular audits, ensuring compliance with Trust expectations
- Obtain data and prepare reports for Locality Quality and Standards and Locality Physical Health Group
- Attend Trustwide meetings representing the Locality
- Deliver Quality Improvement Projects, together with QI lead
- Work closely with MDT on both wards.
- Engage with National Forums as appropriate to ensure that the wards are in line with Best Practice
- Provide management and / or clinical supervision to leads in this clinical area
- Development of Standard Operating Procedures in line with contract requirements
- Maintain links with Trust Lead to ensure compliance
- Maintenance of Continued Professional Development in order to maintain and develop skills to deliver best patient care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This senior practitioner role will be based at Fountain Way Hospital working across both Beechlydene and Ashdown Ward.
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.
Key responsibilities:
- Deliver bitesize training on wards
- Develop a network of leads across all clinical wards and teams
- Deliver induction sessions as needed
- Contribute to regular audits, ensuring compliance with Trust expectations
- Obtain data and prepare reports for Locality Quality and Standards and Locality Physical Health Group
- Attend Trustwide meetings representing the Locality
- Deliver Quality Improvement Projects, together with QI lead
- Work closely with MDT on both wards.
- Engage with National Forums as appropriate to ensure that the wards are in line with Best Practice
- Provide management and / or clinical supervision to leads in this clinical area
- Development of Standard Operating Procedures in line with contract requirements
- Maintain links with Trust Lead to ensure compliance
- Maintenance of Continued Professional Development in order to maintain and develop skills to deliver best patient care.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- oUK recognized qualification or statement of equivalence in Healthcare profession (e.g. RNLD; RMN, OT, SW. SLT)
- o5 years' experience as Healthcare Professional including experience in forensic or criminal justice settings or with service users with offending histories.
- oEvidence of recent further training in learning disability, autism, Positive Behaviour Support, CBT or other relevant therapeutic approach
Desirable
- oFamiliarity with Criminal Justice settings and procedures, (e.g. Courts, MAPPA, NOMS)
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- oUK recognized qualification or statement of equivalence in Healthcare profession (e.g. RNLD; RMN, OT, SW. SLT)
- o5 years' experience as Healthcare Professional including experience in forensic or criminal justice settings or with service users with offending histories.
- oEvidence of recent further training in learning disability, autism, Positive Behaviour Support, CBT or other relevant therapeutic approach
Desirable
- oFamiliarity with Criminal Justice settings and procedures, (e.g. Courts, MAPPA, NOMS)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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