Enhanced Support Specialist Practitioner

NHS; Braintree; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking an Enhanced Support Specialist Practitioner to work closely with individuals with learning disabilities. Responsibilities include delivering personalized healthcare interventions and collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team to improve service user outcomes. The ideal candidate will have an RNLD or RMN qualification and experience in the healthcare field, particularly with the criminal justice system. This role offers a competitive salary ranging from £38,682 to £46,580 annually, pro rata, with comprehensive clinical training provided.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse Learning Disability or Registered Mental Nurse essential.
• Experience in coordinating hospital discharges is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Deliver nursing assessments and plan appropriate interventions.
• Facilitate individual therapeutic sessions for health outcomes.
• Lead specific groups and sessions with clear objectives.

Skills

Experience of working with the criminal justice system

Knowledge of health-related practice, policy and legal requirements

Experience & skills in managing stressful situations

Teaching and presentation skills

Advanced knowledge & skills in Risk Assessment & Risk Management

Ability to lead on Nursing Assessments

Education

RNLD or RMN

Job description

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Enhanced Support Specialist Practitioner

The closing date is 23 January 2026

The post holder will work in close collaboration with other professionals, including the wider Multi‑Disciplinary Team (Nursing, Psychiatry, Psychology, Allied Health Professionals and Arts Therapies) in assessing service user needs, devising care plans and evaluating outcomes that promote service user empowerment. The post holder, with the wider Multi‑Disciplinary Team, will provide high‑quality, individualized care, addressing the needs of the service users and meeting individual health needs.

Main duties of the job

• Actively support people with a learning disability in a variety of settings to improve their physical, mental and emotional health, delivered through person‑centred assessment and treatment and evaluated for goal achievement.
• Improve the lives of people with a learning disability by minimizing the impact of their condition through the delivery of excellent services to promote recovery and wellbeing.
• Be professionally accountable and responsible for patient care, undertaking a range of clinical/therapeutic interventions in hospital or patients' homes and other community settings.
• Act as lead professional or care co‑ordinator as appropriate.
• Facilitate others in the team to develop competence by providing leadership, day‑to‑day supervision, clinical advice and supervision to associate practitioners, healthcare assistants and students as appropriate.
• Advocate for and promote a positive image of people with a learning disability.
• Provide advice on reasonable adjustments to primary and secondary healthcare services.
• Promote the inclusion of people with learning disabilities into mainstream services, through health facilitation, education and training of key personnel.
• Ensure statutory requirements of the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act are observed and applied.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organization 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 4,000 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.

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!

Job responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with service users, carers and families to deliver nursing assessment and then plan, implement and evaluate identified interventions, with a view to improving physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.
• Carry out clinical nursing procedures/techniques where required, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
• Implement and promote evidence‑based clinical processes and standards of practice across the service area.
• Promote and assist the completion of health action plans.
• Facilitate individual therapeutic sessions to achieve identified health outcomes for service users in accordance with assessed needs.
• Develop and review a range of comprehensive and evidence‑based clinical risk assessments and associated care plans, ensuring these plans have meaningful service‑user, carer and interdisciplinary involvement throughout the process.
• Provide written reports as necessary for service‑user reviews.
• Ensure the administration and safe custody of drugs and medications in accordance with Trust policy and procedure, as well as NMC guidelines.
• Lead specific groups/sessions with clear objectives where identified.
• Comply with and promote the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Conduct.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• RNLD or RMN

Skills & Knowledge

• Experience of working with the criminal justice system.
• Knowledge of health‑related practice, policy and legal requirements.
• Experience in care coordinating hospital discharges for detained patients.
• Management of junior staff and ensuring service priorities are met.
• Proven skills in clinical and managerial supervision.
• Experience & skills in managing stressful situations, ensuring recognition and support to staff and service users.
• Teaching and presentation skills.
• Audit as part of performance review and improving clinical practice.
• Advanced knowledge & skills in Risk Assessment & Risk Management.
• Experience in completing structured clinical judgement risk assessments, e.g. HCR20.
• Ability to lead on Nursing Assessments, devise, implement and evaluate care plans.
• Experience of providing offence‑specific treatments.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a year, pro rata