Enhanced Support Specialist Practitioner

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT); Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health trust in the UK is seeking a dedicated professional to work closely with multi-disciplinary teams in providing high-quality, individualized care for people with learning disabilities. The successful candidate will be responsible for assessing needs, devising care plans, and ensuring patient care in various settings. This position requires strong leadership, clinical intervention skills, and a commitment to promoting dignity and independence for individuals with learning disabilities. A positive work environment and career support are offered.

Benefits

Supportive work environment

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in working with people with learning disabilities.
• Ability to create and implement care plans.
• Understanding of the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act.

Responsibilities

• Assess service user needs and devise care plans.
• Provide individualized care to promote recovery.
• Act as a lead professional and care coordinator.
• Supervise and give clinical advice to team members.

Skills

Collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams

Person-centered care

Clinical intervention

Leadership and supervision

Advocacy for learning disabilities

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 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!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: John O'Connor Job title: Interim Community Service Manager-North East Essex Email address: john.o'[e-mail] Telephone number: 01206 366653

Mary Seaman

Community Service Manager - Mid West Essex

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01376 308700