Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Practitioner to join our new Intensive Support Team (IST) working alongside the Community Autism and Learning Disability Service.



This is a community-based, specialist team preventing crisis, reducing hospital admissions, and supporting people in the least restrictive setting.



The service will be integrated at a local level and provide psychological and psychiatric person-centred interventions.



The team is intrinsically linked with the dynamic support register and offers support over the 7-day period and aims to proactively target people with learning disabilities and/or autism who are most at risk of unplanned admissions due to mental illness or behavioural presentation.



Be responsible and accountable for ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and efficient care to Service users as allocated within the designated pathway.



Be responsible and accountable for the delivery of effective and high quality evidence based treatment packages within the Pathway.



If applicable to the role, provide clinical advice, leadership and supervision to other non-medical prescribing staff within the group



Contribute to Appraisal and Personal Development of staff.



Identify and organise the delivery of appropriate clinical training, in order to ensure the highest standard of evidence based clinical interventions are provide based on care pathway packages.



Demonstrate clinical excellence in relation to clinical reasoning and decision making when managing complex cases.



If applicable lead on and ensure robust and timely Clinical Audit systems in relation to non-medical prescribing.



Support with team development and performance and if applicable to the service, assist the clinical managers and contribute to individual practitioners' performance in relation to non-medical prescribing .



Provide direct Clinical Interventions at an Advanced Practitioner level to an agreed number of Service Users and if applicable to service as a non-medical prescriber.



Commitment to promoting Recovery and Wellbeing and maximising independence throughout the Pathway.



To provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity.



We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented, and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.



Please find attached job description for full details.

Advertising date :

19 th August 2025

Closing date :

2 nd September 2025



We welcome your application.