Key responsibilities include assessing patient needs, providing positive behavior support, and developing person-centered care strategies. The practitioner will collaborate across various trust sites to align training with national guidelines and ensure adherence to trust policies. The position will involve leadership in education, where the candidate will represent the Trust both internally and externally while working closely with external agencies to maintain compliance and quality standards in mental health care.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual to join our new reducing restrictive practice team. This team is a new innovation which will assist with ensuring our clinical teams develop understanding related to the functions behind dysregulated, distressed and challenging behaviour. The team will support staff teams to develop skills, knowledge and competency to support individuals without applying aversive and restrictive approaches.
We are looking to recruit an individual who is highly motivated and passionate about ensuring clinical practice is compassionate, patient centred, mental health informed with an emphasis on understanding behaviour to support a more functional approach to care.
Applicants should have the knowledge and skills in assessing patient's needs, positive behaviour support, teaching and have a person-centred approach to considering care arrangements .
This post will work across multiple sites to support the trusts strategy and implementation plan around mental health and reducing restrictive practice. This will consist of delivering high quality training as well as supporting clinical teams to implement what is learnt in the classroom into the clinical sphere.
As part of the Reducing Restrictive Practice Team, this post will support the Lead for Reducing Restrictive Practice and Mental Health in the delivery of organisational objectives for education including theory and practical training across the Trust. This post will represent the Trust internally and externally and will ensure appropriate leadership in the promotion and delivery of education. A heavy emphasis will be on supporting clinical teams to develop competency in developing person-centred strategies to reduce restrictive practices.
Specialist dissemination of knowledge and expertise in clinical practice is expected when supporting staff teams who provide care to people who are exhibiting dysregulated, distressed and potentially challenging behaviours. The post will work closely with the outside agencies to ensure all training aligns with standards as well as ensuring national guidelines and recommendations, trust policy and procedure are compliant.
Closing date of applications: 12 November 2024
Interview date: 26 November 2024
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