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Learning Disability Screening Practitioner, Poole
Client: Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group
Location: Poole, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 12e7351b6106
Job Views: 7
Posted: 26.04.2025
Expiry Date: 10.06.2025
Job Description:
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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