Specialist Practitioner
| Posting date: | 17 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 August 2025 |
| Location: | Dawlish, EX7 0NR |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9369-25-0565 |
Summary
Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert. Communication and Working Relationship Skills: Work collaboratively and offer advice to a variety of statutory and non-statutory agencies to support and facilitate care pathways for individuals under FPDS. Relay complex, sensitive information to people with a diagnosis of personality disorder and their carers with empathy and in a way that they can understand. Represent your professional discipline or FPDS at relevant meetings as required. Demonstrate effective communication skills within the team as well as within partner agencies, communicating complex and sensitive information. Build and maintain local, regional and national links and networks to promote the advancement of specialist clinical practice. Keep up to date and accurate written and electronic records according to Trust police. Provide professional advice and consultancy to the multidisciplinary team members, carers and other services. Work with senior leadership of Devon Partnership NHS Trust to promote consistent service delivery and development. Analytical and Judgement Skills: Ability to reflect and critically appraise own and others perfomance Complete detailed complex assessments and make clinical decisions regarding risk and treatment. Ensure the continuous re-evaluation of individuals' needs and clinical risk situations and use clinical judgement to formulate the most appropriate clinical plan. Planning and Organisational Skills: Plan, prioritise and organise own workload as well as the team workload, monitoring and adjusting activities and programmes as necessary. This includes timely completion of reports and checking / amending of minutes. Participate in the planning, leading and organisation of service development projects. Ensure representation of your professional discipline at a strategic level in Devon Partnership NHS Trust, as appropriate and agreed with Line Manager. Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy: Assess. develop, implement, monitor and evaluate specialist therapeutic interventions as part of an overall care plan. Apply specialist knowledge and skills to meet the needs of those with challenging behaviour and complex needs. Contribute to / lead relevant service user planning and review meetings. Ensure interventions are implemented within the boundaries of best practice in risk management. Ensure all treatment records are completed according to Trust policy and partnership protocols. To be responsible for, both individually and within the team, the development, delivery and review of comprehensive and complex treatment programmes and/or care pathway plans using appropriate frameworks in line with evidence-based practice, including strategies to manage risk. To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information. Practice according to the standards set out by your professionals governing body - e.g. the Health and Care Professions' Council (HCPC), Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC). Responsibility for Policy and Service Development Implementation: Contribute to service improvement and development in the Forensic Personality Disorder Service, extending knowledge and skills of own practice. Ensure own continuing professional development relevant to the post. Ensure that any professional development is recorded according to professional and local protocols. Contribute to research and audit activity as a means of advancing practice knowledge. Contribute to the planning, organisation and leadership of professional networks and interest groups where applicable. Work cooperatively with other professionals to ensure coordinated and consistent practice across the service. Keep up to date on relevant government and local policy and guidance in relation to best practice for personality disorder and forensic services. Responsibility for Human Resources: Participate in supervision of own practice completing any agreed actions. Provide supervision and support to designated staff. Act as a fieldwork supervisor / mentor, planning, overseeing and assessing students. Ensure efficient and effective management of time and resources. Participate in training of self and others as relevant to post. Any Other Specific Tasks Required: Working with service-users with extremely challenging and risky behaviour who have typically been excluded from other services and who are difficult to engage. An emotionally demanding job that requires excellent personal and professional boundaries and a high level of reflective capacity. To engage in sometimes intensive interventions with service-users who may present significant risks to themselves and/or others. To engage with high levels of expressed emotions in professional groups working day-to-day with a challenging group of service-users.