Manual Handling Practitioner - South Shields, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom - NHS

Description

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust

We have an exciting opportunity for a suitably experienced learning disability nurse to come and work in our team as community practitioner.

The post holder will be flexible, approachable and work within the wider health and social care system in South Tyneside supporting children with learning disabilities and their families.

The successful candidate will carry a caseload of patients, offering assessment and interventions such as PBS and other behavioural approaches to the wider systems around learning disabled children, young people and their carers.

The band 6 community practitioner will also support the wider team with duty, supervision and mentoring of other colleagues and students and contribute to social care team meetings as well as being linked in with special education and SEND colleagues across the borough.

Part of the role will also include supporting with transition into adult teams where appropriate.

This is a varied and diverse, flexible role within a successful and dynamic team currently undergoing lots of exciting development and service improvement work.

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future.

CNTW NHS Foundation Trust will not provide sponsorship for this role.
Will carry a caseload of young people with complex needs relating to their learning disability. Take part in the duty rota with other clinicians supporting with calls & queries
Undertake PBS training (if not already qualified)
Supervision and mentoring of junior colleagues and students
Evidence of post-registration training in clinical/ psychological interventions / skills relevant to the post.
Experience of risk assessment and management
Demonstration of ability to carry out assessment of complex mental health needs
Demonstrable experience and skill in safeguarding/risk assessment and ensuring appropriate escalation

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.

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust
South Tyneside CYPS Cleadon Park Primary Care Centre
South Tyneside CYPS Cleadon Park Primary Care Centre
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