Job summary
The Positive Partnerships Team is part of the Essex Learning Disability Partnership (ELDP) and works with service users, family carers, social care provider services and local community organisations across Essex to ensure people with a learning disability and challenging complex needs are supported safely and effectively to live a fulfilling life.
This post will manage and co-ordinate the caseload of individuals open to PPT, be one of the lead contacts for PPT, and supervise other colleagues within PPT, as appropriate. In addition, the Senior Coordinator will take a lead with developing the service, responding to new initiatives accordingly, keeping abreast of local and national drivers to continue to support the direction of PPT within the 3 relevant frameworks.
The Senior Coordinator will be responsible for ensuring effective tools are in place for continued service evaluation and will support the Team Leader to demonstrate the effectiveness of the service. All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.
All of our training is competency based and ongoing Practice Development opportunities ensure new knowledge and skills are embedded and implemented.
Main duties of the job
Facilitating access to specialist services early, before the problem becomes intractable.
Facilitating access to mainstream services where this is appropriate and ensuring that reasonable adjustments are made
Providing long term support for people who have returned to the county as part of the transitions from long stay institutions and Assessment and Treatment Units to community settings 2.
Reduce the number of admissions to inpatient assessment and treatment services by responding to problems as they first emerge.
Increasing capacity within the Community Learning Disability Heath Team to manage the additional demand arising from the transition of complex service users back to Essex by providing long-term support once the initial assessment and intervention phases have been completed.
Reducing the number of people placed in out-of-county placements PPT provide long-term support for identified people with complex needs by identifying and responding to potential problems as they emerge, identifying early signs of placement breakdown and linking the person into appropriate services. PPT is an integral part of the Community Learning Disability Health Team.
About us
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.
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:
Our Trust values are:
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?
Job description
Job responsibilities
PPT in Essex will deliver training and practice development opportunities to family carers and paid support staff to equip them with the appropriate skills to be effective in supporting people to live in the community and more able to achieve real gains in peoples quality of life. PPT will deliver training in the following areas:
Person Centred Active Support
Positive Behaviour Support
SPELL, Introduction to Autism
The PPT Senior Co-ordinators role will include:
Supporting people with a learning disability and challenging behaviour to live in welcoming and supportive communities.
Supporting and delivering relevant training and ongoing practice development opportunities to the individuals support network
Providing personalised, flexible and responsive support to assist individuals, families, services and communities to access accurate and timely information to clarify their goals, strengths and needs
Operating as a service co-ordinator (rather than a service provider) and helping the referred person and their families/carers to plan, select and receive needed supports and services
Assisting people and their supports/services to manage barriers and constraints in achieving their preferred lifestyle, including: - assisting local services to act early before the barriers and constraints jeopardise the persons ability to remain in their local community - to identify creative and effective local solutions - support the persons access to social care services and other additional supports - facilitating the persons timely access to other functions within the Community Assessment and Treatment Service and other specialist health supports when needed
Monitoring the quality of services and supports and the implementation of established support plans and protocols.
Supporting the development of inclusive communities through partnership and collaboration with individuals and families/carers, local organisations and the broader community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
PPT in Essex will deliver training and practice development opportunities to family carers and paid support staff to equip them with the appropriate skills to be effective in supporting people to live in the community and more able to achieve real gains in peoples quality of life. PPT will deliver training in the following areas:
Person Centred Active Support
Positive Behaviour Support
SPELL, Introduction to Autism
The PPT Senior Co-ordinators role will include:
Supporting people with a learning disability and challenging behaviour to live in welcoming and supportive communities.
Supporting and delivering relevant training and ongoing practice development opportunities to the individuals support network
Providing personalised, flexible and responsive support to assist individuals, families, services and communities to access accurate and timely information to clarify their goals, strengths and needs
Operating as a service co-ordinator (rather than a service provider) and helping the referred person and their families/carers to plan, select and receive needed supports and services
Assisting people and their supports/services to manage barriers and constraints in achieving their preferred lifestyle, including: - assisting local services to act early before the barriers and constraints jeopardise the persons ability to remain in their local community - to identify creative and effective local solutions - support the persons access to social care services and other additional supports - facilitating the persons timely access to other functions within the Community Assessment and Treatment Service and other specialist health supports when needed
Monitoring the quality of services and supports and the implementation of established support plans and protocols.
Supporting the development of inclusive communities through partnership and collaboration with individuals and families/carers, local organisations and the broader community.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential
- An appropriate degree level professional qualification in health and or social care or equivalent
- Relevant post qualification training.
Desirable
- Relevant qualification training such as: Positive Behaviour Support, Person Centred Active Support, Person Centred Planning
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Proven experience in services for people with a learning disability.
- Experience of multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary working
- Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect
Desirable
- Experience of supporting people with a learning disability and their family/carers to develop person centred plans
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Essential
- Commitment to principles of social inclusion and demonstrated experience of working in a person-centred way.
- Highly developed verbal and written communication and negotiation skills with the ability to build and nurture relationships, including the ability to advocate for others.
- Demonstrated ability to develop plans and achieve positive outcomes for individuals within the context of organisational policy, procedures and resources.
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislation, theory and policy in relation to people with a learning disability
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential
- An appropriate degree level professional qualification in health and or social care or equivalent
- Relevant post qualification training.
Desirable
- Relevant qualification training such as: Positive Behaviour Support, Person Centred Active Support, Person Centred Planning
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Proven experience in services for people with a learning disability.
- Experience of multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary working
- Experience of partnership working with service users and carers, demonstrating dignity and respect
Desirable
- Experience of supporting people with a learning disability and their family/carers to develop person centred plans
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Essential
- Commitment to principles of social inclusion and demonstrated experience of working in a person-centred way.
- Highly developed verbal and written communication and negotiation skills with the ability to build and nurture relationships, including the ability to advocate for others.
- Demonstrated ability to develop plans and achieve positive outcomes for individuals within the context of organisational policy, procedures and resources.
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislation, theory and policy in relation to people with a learning disability
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
