Band 6 - Referrals Coordinator - Specialist Learning Disability Practitioner
Community Team for People with a Learning Disability (CTPLD)
Are you passionate about high quality health and social care for people with a learning disability?
Would you like to work with a highly skilled and experienced multidisciplinary team?
Do you enjoy working with individuals to understand their care needs and ensure they receive high quality care and support?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a registered practitioner (registered nurse or allied health care professional) with a strong background and knowledge in learning disabilities healthcare to join our county-wide Learning Disability Team as a referrals coordinator. You will work out of one of the CTPLD bases in Chippenham, Warminster, Marlborough, or Salisbury with a hybrid approach to your work. There is an expectation that the candidate will work three days a week from a team base. This role will involve a need to provide care across the county; due to this requirement of the role, applicants should have a driving licence and access to their own transport.
We promote and support access to mainstream services and provide specialist health care for people with learning disabilities across the county. The Wiltshire CTPLD operates as an integrated multi-agency health team with colleagues from Avon and Wiltshire NHS Partnership Trust and close links with Wiltshire Council's Learning Disability and Autism Service.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an individual who is keen to work with people with learning disabilities who have complex health needs and/or challenging behaviour/mental health needs and partner agencies across the care industry. This role will require you to review and triage referrals for the multi-disciplinary team; ensuring the information provided meets the criteria for a referral to be processed to the team. This will include reviewing the detail of information to know what is needed, eligibility for the service, professional involvements needed, etc. You will need to process referrals and follow up actions as required, ensuring a smooth process for individuals referring into the team.
In addition, we will require you to work across all areas of the multi-disciplinary team supporting clinical practice where need is highest. This may involve such skills as initial assessments, reviews, covering assessment and case management of individuals for NHS Continuing Health Care (CHC), undertaking epilepsy reviews of profiles and emergency management plans, and health promotion work, assessments around sexual knowledge and relationships, etc.
If you would like to have an informal conversation about this role, please contact:
Tula Daley, Head of Learning Disability Service (CTPLD), pdaley@nhs.net
About us
Wiltshire Health and Care provides community-based health services, enabling people to live healthy independent lives. Our Vision is to enable people to live independent and fulfilling lives for as long as possible. We are an NHS partnership organisation, focused entirely on delivering quality health and care to the people of Wiltshire - not on making a profit.
There has never been a better time to join us. Community services are expanding as part of the NHS Long Term Plan and the population of Wiltshire has never needed the energy, enthusiasm, and commitment of our community-focused teams more than now. You will join a friendly and supportive team who live our values of Quality, Integrity, Partnership, and Change, which were developed with our staff, patients, and carers.
If you already live in or near Wiltshire, you'll know that it is a great place to live and work: rolling countryside, bustling market towns, and vibrant city life combined with excellent transport links and good schools. If you are looking to move to the area, we offer local employment and a chance to play a crucial role as part of your new community straight away. What are you waiting for?!
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description (under Supporting Documents) for more information regarding the role and to access the full person specification.
Person Specification
Additional Criteria
* Access to a vehicle that can be used for business purposes and hold a full and valid driving licence.
Experience
* Minimum of 1 year experience of working within a community learning disability team
* In-depth experience of working with adults with a learning disability
* Working within a multi-disciplinary team
* Teaching experience
* Setting and monitoring standards of care
* Experience within a wide range of patient/client care groups
* Experience of working to the Continuing Health Care Framework/Care Programme Approach framework/Positive Behaviour approach
* Profiling community needs and targeting identified health needs of the population
Qualifications
* Registered Practitioner: you must hold a valid professional registration as either a nurse or allied health professional.
* Leadership and management training
* Teaching and assessing in clinical practice
* Further qualifications relevant to learning disabilities, community practice, etc.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
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