Associate Practitioner (Learning Disability Partnership)

A Vacancy at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.

Fixed-Term Contract - 10 months

Are you interested in working with adults who have a learning disability?

Do you enjoy working in a role which is varied and interesting?

We are looking for an Associate Practitioner to work within the Learning Disability Partnership service, within South Cambridgeshire. The Cambridgeshire Learning Disability Partnership (LDP) consists of six integrated specialist health and social care teams as well as local authority run day and accommodation services for adults with a Learning Disability.

This is an Ideal opportunity for people who wish to develop a wide variety of skills in working with adults who have a learning disability. The successful application would be working within and MDT alongside arts therapists, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech and language therapists.

The role involves working with people in a variety of setting such as their own homes, supported living, day opportunities and the wider community.

Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

To work with the multi-disciplinary health clinicians under their supervision.

To work with service users to provide interventions to complete specific pieces of work delegated by health practitioners.

To contribute to the regular reviews of service users as part of the multi-disciplinary health team within the LDP.

To participate within the multi-disciplinary professional team to deliver safe person centered care.

To work in partnership with families and carers to ensure that service users individual health needs are met.

• DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

• To work as part of a Learning Disability multi-disciplinary, integrated team.
• To support service users with a range of priority health needs under the supervision of a health practitioner.
• Participate in regular planning and review meetings with the health practitioner supervising pieces of work and maintain quality and management of caseload within supervision process
• Maintain adequate records as required by existing procedures, entering appropriate details on the service user’s case notes as necessary.
• Attend and participate in wider team/care plan review meetings as appropriate.
• Work with service users to facilitate access to primary and secondary healthcare services.
• Help to identify early signs of mental and physical health decline by monitoring the service user’s progress, level of functioning and mental state and alert the health practitioner involved in the individuals care.
• Able to access the local area as this is a community based post which will involve a high amount of travelling.

This advert closes on Monday 14 Oct 2024