Enhanced Support Specialist Practitioner

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT); Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health organization in the UK seeks a dedicated practitioner to provide high-quality, individualized care for individuals with learning disabilities. The role involves collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team to assess and support service users' health needs, ensuring statutory requirements are met. Candidates should have experience in clinical interventions and advocacy, contributing to the mental health and well-being of service users.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering person-centred assessment and treatment.
• Ability to advocate for individuals with learning disabilities.
• Clinical/therapeutic intervention skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to assess and devise care plans.
• Provide high quality, individualized care.
• Act as lead professional or care coordinator.
• Facilitate team competence through leadership and supervision.

Job description

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’s 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, individualized care, which addresses the needs of the service users and meets individual health needs.

Actively support people with a learning disability in a variety of settings to improve their physical, mental and emotional health. This is delivered through person-centred assessment and treatment, which will subsequently be evaluated for achievement of identified goals.

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.

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 clinical 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.

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 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

• Welcoming
• Kind
• Positive
• Respectful
• Professional