PPT Coordinator
The closing date is 09 November 2025
Job summary
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.
Main duties of the job
The PPT Coordinator provides a non-clinical role and works within the framework of Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) to:
- 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 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?
Details
Date posted
24 October 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£32,602 to £39,686 a year per annum, pro rata inclusive of 5% HCAS (min £1,303 max £2,198)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
367-LD&F-9810
Job locations
Colne House
21 Upton Road
Watford
WD18 0JP
Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Colne House
21 Upton Road
Watford
WD18 0JP
Employer's website
https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)
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