Reducing Restrictive Practice Specialist Practitioner

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: 24 October 2024

Interview date: 7 November 2024

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In Return We Will Offer

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
  
  

Key Facts

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Victoria Holden Job title: Reducing Restrictive Practice & Mental Health Lead Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07384245415