Support Worker (Learning Disabilities)

Job summary

In North Tyneside the CLDT is part of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. It is a multi-disciplinary team managed along with services provided by the Local Authority.

Building on the current CLDT provision, this post will facilitate the provision of children and adult specialist service offering assessment, intervention, and training for people who have a learning disability, complex behavioural/and or mental health needs.

This post involves a range of clinical activities, including supporting senior nurse with monitoring of behavioural case load, assessments and interventions in the community. Liaising and working in collaboration within the multi-disciplinary work force.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about working in collaboration with service users, their family, carers and professional colleagues in order to enhance health and well-being, and to prevent or reduce behaviour that challenges.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

This post will be based with the Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. The post holder will work within the Enhanced Crisis Aversion Team. The post holder will support in highly specialised behavioural assessments and interventions for children and adults who present with severe behaviours that challenge.

The post holder will support senior staff with the development of highly specialised Positive Behavioural Support Plans for patients and service providers in order to reduce or prevent placement breakdowns or admissions into inpatient settings.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wallsend Health Centre

The Green

Wallsend

NE28 7PD

Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wallsend Health Centre

The Green

Wallsend

NE28 7PD

Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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