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In this rewarding position, you'll collaborate with a variety of professionals, empowering colleagues in acute hospitals to better meet the complex needs of our service users. Your exceptional communication skills will shine as you work with families and lead multi-disciplinary meetings. You’ll also have the opportunity to mentor students and junior staff, nurturing the next generation of care leaders. If you’re ready to work autonomously, showcase your expertise, and foster a culture of inclusivity within healthcare, we want to hear from you!
We are seeking clinicians to join our established Learning Disability and Autism liaison team across University Hospitals Bristol and Weston Trust and North Bristol Trust. The successful applicant will be passionate about ensuring equitable access to our acute services for people with learning disabilities and autistic people.
Excellent knowledge of the range of reasonable adjustments that can be provided and a commitment to advocate for people is essential for this role. The ability to tailor your communication to work effectively with service users, families and professionals including in multi-disciplinary meetings and when providing training is a key skill.
You will be an expert practitioner to support acute hospital staff to meet the needs of people who have complex needs through innovative provision of reasonable adjustments.
You will be able to work autonomously and prioritise your workload according to capacity and demand.
You work collaboratively with the acute Trust on agreed initiatives to improve knowledge, skills and practice at supporting people who have a learning disability (i.e. champions network, training, reasonable adjustments)
You will attend meetings as agreed with the Lead Nurse to promote access for people who have a learning disability and / or autistic people (i.e. promoting reasonable adjustments, hospital passports, champions, etc.)
You will develop the skills of students and junior staff.
You will maintain a visible profile within the service (i.e. involvement in promotional materials, activities and to encourage liaison from acute trust services)
You will contribute to and deliver training as required to acute hospital staff.
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Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.
Sirona care & health currently recruit overseas nursing and therapy staff through an NHS Trust Supplier and we adhere to the NHSE Code of Practice in relation to applicants from Red List countries. We are therefore, unable to accept any direct applications to this advert from candidates who are not already based in the UK. If you are currently require a visa to work in the UK, there must be a minimum of 12 months from your start date until the expiry date.
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