Keyworker Assistant

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust; Chesterton; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust in Chesterton is recruiting a full-time Band 4 Keyworker Assistant to join the established Keyworker Team at Dragon Square, Chesterton. The role focuses on providing support to children and young people with learning disabilities or autism, including those at risk of hospitalization, as part of the NHS Long Term Plan.

You will work with families and care networks to sustain wellbeing, build calm, and enable transitions down to amber or green on

Qualifications

• Direct experience of caring or living with a child or young person with a learning disability, autism or both.
• Experience of being a parent or carer for someone with a learning disability, autism or both.
• Experience of working to support people who present behavioural challenges in the community.

Skills

Direct experience of caring

Parent or carer experience

Behavioural support experience

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint 1 full time band 4 Keyworker Assistant to support our established Keyworker Team, based at Dragon Square, Chesterton. The NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) includes commitment that children and young people with a learning disability, autism or both with the most complex needs will have a designated keyworker, implementing the recommendation made by Dame Christine Lenehan. Initially, keyworker support will be provided to children and young people who are inpatients or at risk of being admitted to hospital. Keyworker support will also be extended to the most vulnerable children with a learning disability and/or autism, including those who face multiple vulnerabilities such as looked after and adopted children, and children and young people in transition between services. This role will offer the step‑down service from the keyworker team, to extend our pathway by offering support to clients moving down to amber and/or those flagging as green on the Dynamic Support Register (0‑25 age range)

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare are hosting half of the Keyworker Team working in partnership with MPFT and liaising across all relevant agencies to support the client and their families/cares (as required).

• Direct experience of caring or living with a child or young person who has either a learning disability, autism or both
• Experience of being a Parent or carer for someone with a learning disability, autism or both
• Experience of working to support people who present behavioural challenges in the community

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under‑representated groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.