Location: Dawlish, EX7 0NR
Salary: £24625.00 to £29114.00
Date posted: 15th May 2025
Closing date: 3rd June 2025
LDA Outreach Assistant Practitioner
Job Description:
We are seeking highly motivated, innovative, compassionate and clinically-experienced support workers, occupation therapy technical instructors and assistant psychologists to join the newly established, Devon-wide, Learning Disability and Autism (LDA) Outreach Team at Devon Partnership NHS Trust.
These exciting new Band 4 roles will involve working in collaboration with other LDA Outreach colleagues, community learning disability and autism colleagues in addition to colleagues from 'The Brook' our 10-bedded Learning Disability and Autism inpatient unit.
You should have clinical experience of working with people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people and/or those experiencing mental health difficulties. We are seeking colleagues who are adept at working autonomously as well as part of the multidisciplinary team and be able to prioritise and manage workload. You should also have knowledge and experience of safeguarding, the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act, in addition to enhanced interpersonal, communication, formulation and risk assessment skills.
- Interviews are currently scheduled to take place in mid to late June 2025 - dates to be confirmed.
We also offer Band 3 trainee opportunities for candidates who do not hold the desired Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care qualification but have relevant experience.
Main duties of the job
We welcome applications from experienced and compassionate staff who can demonstrate and promote effective and high-quality care to the highest evidence-based standards.
A central part of the role involves working alongside the Band 7 Outreach Practitioners to support with the triaging, assessing, planning, formulation and delivering of complex care packages to admission-vulnerable service users across Devon. We will also offer support for those discharged from The Brook, whilst ensuring proactive liaison with other partner agencies, families and care providers at every stage of care.
Devon Partnership NHS Trust is looking to become a recognised centre of excellence and expertise, the successful applicant should hold the Trusts values and have the competencies and confidence to inspire and involve staff to help reach this target over the next five years.
We welcome telephone enquiries about the post.
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Contact information:
LD&A Outreach Practitioners
Carmen von Mickwitz and Lisa Tiffany
