Job summary
- Main area
- AHP Assistant Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 36 months (Leslyn Downer)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Other
- Job ref
- 820-6019314-LD-B
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Greenfields
- Town
- Kings Norton
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Band 4 AHP Assistant Practitioner
Band 4
Job overview
Fixed/term/secondment for 36 months
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and innovative individual.
The Intensive Support Team works with individuals who have a learning disability, with additional complex and high risk needs, who may require a crisis intervention and intensive support to prevent placement breakdown, an admission to hospital or following discharge from an inpatient setting where required. The IST works with people within Birmingham and also people who are out of area to support the transforming care agenda.
The Intensive Support Team at BCHC is an MDT that work collaboratively to support adults in the community of Birmingham with learning disabilities, this encompasses a variety of complex and challenging behaviours which would give the ideal candidate a great opportunity to develop their skills and create a fantastic career pathway through the specialty.
Main duties of the job
The IST is proud to value themselves as a person-centred service, that works closely with the patient and family towards understanding and supporting the need of the individual in the least restrictive way. The service offers a variety of interventions due to its MDT resources and can offer a personalised plan for the service user, which can then be in-cooperated into the individual’s Positive Behaviour Support plan.
You will have experience in both Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy. Must be flexible with excellent communication skills and a passion for integrated team working. As a Therapy Assistant you will work within the framework of a MDT to provide support and guidance to adults with learning disabilities and carers within the Birmingham area.
Applicants should have experience of working with individuals who have a learning disability and the appropriate skills, knowledge and experience in relation to autism, challenging behaviour and mental health within an integrated model of service delivery.
You will have a extensive experience within Learning Disabilities. Car Driver and access to a car for work purposes essential.
In return for your dedication and commitment we offer a wide variety of opportunities to develop your career potential.
Working for our organisation
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
IMPORTANT
- Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process
- Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job description and Responsibilities
As per the Person specification & Job description document attached.
Please see the attached supporting document.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ3 or equivalent qualification.
- Willing to undertake departmental and external training.
- BTec SLTA/OTA qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Has experience of working with people with learning disabilities/communication difficulties/behaviours that challenge, in health or third sector setting.
- Is able to independently carry out tasks with a degree of planning and autonomy.
- Is able to play an active role in a team.
- Is able to reflect on own skills and support others in developing reflective practice through supervision.
- Is able to demonstrate an ability to plan and implement work based activities in individual and/or group situations.
- Has experience of training other professionals.
- Has experience of supervision of others in work situations.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Has excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- Has literacy skills to a level to be able to extract information and summarise in clinical notes.
- Has knowledge of specific SLT/OT procedures/worked with an SLT/OT.
- Able to organise and carry out accurate observations of the communication and interaction skills of clients and their communication partners in various environments, and suggest next course of action.
- Has knowledge of communication/engagement and is able to promote this in all environments by modeling and through explanation.
- Is able to independently manage and organise time for a range of people within agreed timescales.
- IT literate and able to use a range of specialist programmes.
- Has experience of delivering a communication/engagement programme.
- Able to support and train multi-agency team/parents or carers to work with individuals to develop, implement and evaluate programmes.
Desirable criteria
- Has experience of producing and modifying resources and equipment for people with difficulties in communicating/engaging.
personl qualities
Essential criteria
- Promote and support the equality, diversity, rights and responsibilities of individuals.
- Team Player
other job requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability and willingness to move around the city.
- Ability to work flexibly as planned over a 7 day period
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Charlotte Richardson
- Job title
- Speech and Language Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01214663900
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