Job overview

Do you bring passion and commitment to delivering high quality care? Do you  understand the clinical and sensory needs of people with a Learning Disability and or Autism. If you are prepared to deliver evidence based change to implement clinical service delivery, this role will provide you with a rare and exciting career opportunity to be part of our new service implementation.

Avon and Wiltshire Partnership (AWP) are looking for an exceptional person to provide leadership to deliver our vision to deliver excellence for people with a learning disability and autistic people in our specialist acute inpatient mental health services 

NHSE expect the service to be implemented in line with South West regional learning disability and autism capacity programme of care (2023). The ambition is to deliver a specialist, acute mental health care setting to meet the specialist environmental and clinical needs of people with a learning disability and or autism that cannot access mainstream inpatient services.

The kingfisher is being coproduced and you will be influential in designing and implementing our service and team in partnership with people with lived experience.

This is an exciting and ambitious programme that will deliver measurable benefits and clinical outcomes for those people with a learning disability and autistic people and their families by providing the sensory and clinical environment that both supports patients and contributes to recovery.

Main duties of the job

Working as a team to ensure that people who have a Learning Disability and Autism are provided with a high quality, person-centred approach to care delivery that always considers people’s safety, privacy and dignity.

To work within a multi-professional team in an in-patient / community setting, providing, support, care and treatment to service users, within guidelines and protocols identified.

Developing and practicing a set of therapeutic care skills, making a significant contribution to service users’ psychological, emotional and social wellbeing.

Enable service users to reach their optimum level of independence, take responsibility for ensuring service user and their relatives receive care that prioritises safety, effectiveness, partnership and hope.

To provide enhanced support to our service users who often have complex needs as expected from a specialised service.

Working within Learning Disability & Autism services can be highly rewarding and fulfilling. In addition, this role has a responsibility to provide support, coaching and supervising others less experienced in the team as part of our collective goal to develop enhanced skills expected from a specialist service.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. 

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.  

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.