Enhanced Support Specialist Practitioner

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 minimizing the impact of their condition through the delivery of excellent services to promote recovery and wellbeing. Professionally accountable and responsible for patient care, undertaking a range of clinical/therapeutic interventions in hospital or patients' homes and other community settings. Act as lead professional or care co-ordinator 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., Work collaboratively with service users, carers and families to deliver nursing assessment and then plan, implement and evaluate identified interventions, with a view to improving physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. Carry out clinical nursing procedures/techniques where required, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures. Implement and promote evidence-based clinical processes and standards of practice across the service area. Promote and assist the completion of health action plans. Facilitate individual therapeutic sessions to achieve identified health outcomes for service users in accordance with assessed needs. Develop and review a range of comprehensive and evidence-based clinical risk assessments and associated care plans. Ensure these plans have meaningful service user, carer and interdisciplinary involvement throughout the process. Provide written reports as necessary for service user reviews. Ensure the administration and safe custody of drugs and medications in accordance with Trust policy and procedure, as well as NMC guidelines. Lead specific groups/sessions with clear objectives where identified. Comply with and promote the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Conduct

• RNLD or RMN
• ENB 997/998 (Mentoring & (Mentoring & Preceptorship) or equivalent
• Post graduate qualification
Desirable criteria
• NVQ Level D32/33 (Assessors qualification), Proven experience post registration.
• Experience of working with the criminal justice system.
• Knowledge of health-related practice, policy and legal requirements.
• Experience in care coordinating hospital discharges for detained patients.
• Management of junior staff and ensuring service priorities are met.
• Proven skills in clinical and managerial supervision.
• Experience & skills in management of stressfu lsituations ensuring recognition and support to staff and service users.
• Teaching and presentation skills.
• Audit as a part of performance review and improving clinical practice.
• Advanced knowledge & skills in Risk Assessment & Risk Management.
• Experience in completing structured clinical judgement risk assessments, e.g. HCR20.
• Ability to lead on Nursing Assessment's, Devise, Implement and Evaluate Care Plans.
Desirable criteria
• Experience of providing offence specific treatments., You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organization 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?, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional