Detailed job description
and main responsibilities
For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.
As part of our vision to have a skilled, diverse and caring workforce, Dorset HealthCare is working in partnership with The Prince’s Trust to support people getting into work, as part of this partnership, we are offering an employability service to support individuals between 16-30 years old with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. If you would like or know of anyone who would value this support please do contact
Person specification
Knowledge, Skills and Training
Essential criteria
1. Registered practitioner to degree/diploma level
2. Membership of the relevant Professional Body
3. On progression: Supplemented by post registration diploma level specialist training and/or short courses or demonstrable extensive experience in the relevant specialty
Desirable criteria
4. Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role
Job Specific Experience
Essential criteria
5. Recent previous experience within a comparable role
6. Experience of managing change
7. Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention
8. Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
9. On progression: Experience of older adults Mental Health specialist working
Personal Qualities/ Attributes
Essential criteria
10. 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.
11. 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
12. Demonstrable ability to analyse situations and provide a resolution
13. Willingness to advance own clinical knowledge, skill and competence based on current evidence
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
14. Subject to the provisions of the Equality Act, able to travel using own vehicle on Trust business.
15. Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English to a standard which enables the post holder to carry out the full range of duties and responsibilities of the role effectively.