Enhanced Support Practitioner

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT); Braintree; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health trust in Braintree is seeking a dedicated professional to provide intensive support to adults with learning disabilities facing mental health challenges. The role involves close collaboration with a Multi-Disciplinary Team to deliver high-quality, individualised care, ensuring service users' needs are met. A holistic approach and strong clinical skills are essential for success. This position also emphasizes compliance with legislative requirements and effective resource management.

Qualifications

• Ability to maintain a caseload of people with learning disabilities.
• Familiar with the Mental Capacity Act requirements.
• Skills in providing holistic care and support.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Multi-Disciplinary Teams to assess service user needs.
• Provide individualised care that empowers service users.
• Act as a gateway to inpatient services when needed.

Skills

Clinical skills in mental health care

Effective communication

Team collaboration

Holistic patient assessment

Job description

The post holder will work in close collaboration with other professionals, including the wider Multi‑Disciplinary Team (nursing, psychiatry, psychology and speech and language therapy) in assessing service users’ needs, devising care plans and evaluating outcomes that promote service user empowerment through the process. The post holder, with the wider Multi‑Disciplinary Team, will provide high quality, individualised care, which addresses the needs of the service users and meets individual health needs.

The Intensive Support Service will provide intensive support to adults with learning disabilities who are presenting challenging behaviours and/or mental health problems in the community to prevent, where possible, admission to hospital. The team will act as a gateway to the inpatient assessment and treatment service and work in close liaison with inpatient services to facilitate appropriate admission and timely discharge from services. The team will provide an 8am‑8pm service Monday to Friday, 9am‑5pm weekends and bank holidays and will work with the service user in a variety of health and social care settings.

All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti‑Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.

• Maintain responsibility for a caseload of people with learning disabilities and health needs, providing a holistic approach to service user assessment, treatment, review and management of packages of care.
• Ensure that the statutory requirements of the Mental Capacity Act are observed and applied.
• Have the clinical skills relative to the delivery of care in the service area.
• Have effective working relationships with other professionals within the service area, across the Strategic Business Unit, Trust and other NHS providers and key stakeholders.
• Contribute towards effective management and utilisation of resources within the service area.
• Provide clinical advice for service users who present with challenging and mental health needs that promote and facilitate the positive health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities, including direct work with service users, carers, colleagues and other service providers.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT)

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

Our Trust Values Are

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers – everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

• Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Mary Seaman
Job title: Community Service Manager Mid & West Essex
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 0333 222 5020