Position Overview
The post holder will work in close collaboration with other professionals, including the wider multi‑disciplinary team (Nursing, Psychiatry, Psychology, allied health professionals, and arts therapies) in assessing service users’ needs, devising care plans, and evaluating outcomes that promote service user empowerment throughout the process.
Actively support people with a learning disability in a variety of settings to improve their physical, mental and emotional health. This is delivered through person‑centred assessment and treatment, which will subsequently be evaluated for achievement of identified goals.
Improve the lives of people with a learning disability by minimising the impact of their condition through the delivery of excellent services that promote recovery and wellbeing.
Responsibilities
* Provide high quality, individualized care that addresses the needs of the service users and meets their individual health needs.
* Undertake a range of clinical/therapeutic interventions in hospital or patients’ homes and other community settings.
* Act as lead professional or care coordinator as appropriate.
* Facilitate others in the team to develop competence by providing leadership, day‑to‑day supervision, clinical advice and clinical supervision to associate practitioners, healthcare assistants, and students as appropriate.
* Advocate for and promote a positive image of people with a learning disability.
* Provide advice on reasonable adjustments to primary and secondary healthcare services.
* Promote the inclusion of people with learning disabilities into mainstream services through health facilitation, education and training of key personnel.
* Ensure statutory requirements of the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act are observed and applied.
About the Trust
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is 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 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 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, and medium and low secure learning disability 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. Our Trust values are welcoming, kind, positive, respectful, professional.
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