PPT Coordinator

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

Job summary

A leading health service provider in Watford is seeking an experienced Coordinator to join the Positive Partnerships Team, focusing on supporting people with learning disabilities. The ideal candidate will possess qualifications in Positive Behavioural Support and demonstrate strong communication and training abilities. You will work collaboratively with colleagues and external organizations to enhance community inclusivity and deliver essential training programs. This role involves travel throughout the service area.

Qualifications

• Experience working with people with learning disabilities.
• Ability to develop and implement PBS plans.
• Understanding of training techniques for personnel.

Responsibilities

• Provide additional input for people with learning disabilities.
• Coordinate plans and access needed supports.
• Monitor and implement PBS plans.

Skills

Experience in Positive Behavioural Support

Ability to provide person-centred support

Skills in training and development

Excellent communication abilities

Education

Relevant health or social care qualification

Job description

Overview

Are you interested in being a part of an exciting initiative within the Specialist Learning Disability Service in Hertfordshire?

Do you have the passion and energy to make a real difference for people with an intellectual disability and their support network?

The Positive Partnerships Team (PPT) is part of the Specialist Learning Disabilities Service in Hertfordshire. PPT provides training and additional support to care provider organisations, working within the framework of Positive Behavioural Support and other person-centred approaches. We are currently looking to recruit a skilled and experienced Coordinator who will work alongside colleagues within PPT, and the wider Specialist Learning Disability Service, to help strengthen carers’ capacity to provide robust and skilled support for people with a learning disability living in a supported environment.

If you have the skills, qualification and experience of working within the Positive Behavioural Support framework and would like to apply your skills and knowledge to help others develop their approach, then this could be for you. The Positive Partnerships Team is an integral part of our Specialist Learning Disabilities Service and works closely with other health and social care services within Hertfordshire.

The Post will be based at Colne House, Watford. Travel by car throughout the area covered by the service is essential.

Responsibilities

• Offer additional input for people with a learning disability to live in welcoming and supportive communities, working within the principles of PBS.
• Provide person-centred, flexible and responsive support to assist individuals, support workers, carers, services and communities to access accurate and timely information to help clarify the person’s goals, strengths and needs, in accordance with their PBS Plan.
• Support and contribute to the delivery of PPT’s training suite in PBS, Person Centred Active Support and other person centred approaches, and providing opportunities to work with support workers/carers to help embed their learning into the day to day, via Practice Development sessions.
• Operate as a service coordinator, helping the referred person and their support worker/carers to plan, select and receive needed supports and services.
• Assist people and their supports/services to manage barriers and constraints in achieving their preferred lifestyle.
• Monitor the implementation of established PBS plans and protocols.
• Support the development of inclusive communities through partnership and collaboration with individuals and support worker/carers, local organisations and the broader community.

PPT is an integral part of the Specialist Learning Disabilities Service in Hertfordshire.

About HPFT and Values

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!

How to apply

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emma Lovell, Job title: Team Leader, Telephone: [phone]