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The Intensive Support Team (IST) provides a rapid, time limited, community based assessment and treatment service for people with learning disability living in Buckinghamshire, who challenge services and have additional mental health needs. IST seeks to provide an alternative, where appropriate, for Service Users to hospital admission, so as to minimise further disruption to their lives and to the people who care for them within a Multi Disciplinary Team.

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and forward thinking Learning Disability Senior Support Worker  to join the Intensive Support Team (IST) in Buckinghamshire. The team is based within Buckinghamshire locality with existing links to other local health and social care services.  This is a full time, 37.5 hours a week, permanent position, flexible over 7 days.

The successful candidate will  assist with the developing and implementation of care planning and assessment working with individuals and their families / carers within their own homes.

In return you will have many opportunities to develop professionally by the provision of regular supervision both on a 1:1 basis and peer group and opportunities to develop you further through training programmes offered.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

The team provide  care for people who have a Learning Disability and or mental Health or Challenging behaviour needs within their own environments.

For this role we are looking for candidates who posses excellent communication skill and can identify and use different methods of communication.

Candidates must hold a valid driving licence and access to a car due to having to travel around East and North Hertfordshire to enable our service to be provided in the persons own home or workplace.

Candidates must have an awareness in assessing risk 

IST uses a Positive Behavioural Support as a framework so would be involved in developing and implementing PBS plans in conjunction with the wider Multi Disciplinary Team                           

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

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 3500 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?

Then please read on…