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Senior Practitioner MHST Band 6, Colchester
Location: Colchester, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
bab348356c91
Job Views:
3
Posted:
18.04.2025
Expiry Date:
02.06.2025
Job Description:
Main duties of the job:
1. Actively support people with a learning disability in a variety of settings to improve their physical, mental, and emotional health. This is delivered through person-centred assessment and treatment, which will subsequently be evaluated for achievement of identified goals.
2. Improve the lives of people with a learning disability by minimising the impact of their condition through the delivery of excellent services to promote recovery and wellbeing.
3. Professionally accountable and responsible for patient care, undertaking a range of clinical/therapeutic interventions in hospital or patients’ homes and other community settings.
4. Act as lead professional or care co-ordinator as appropriate.
5. Facilitate others in the team to develop competence by providing leadership, day-to-day supervision, clinical advice, and clinical supervision to associate practitioners, healthcare assistants, and students as appropriate.
6. Advocate for and promote a positive image of people with a learning disability.
7. Provide advice on reasonable adjustments to primary and secondary healthcare services.
8. Promote the inclusion of people with learning disabilities into mainstream services through health facilitation, education, and training of key personnel.
9. Ensure statutory requirements of the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act are observed and applied.
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