Support Worker - Learning Disability

In North Tyneside the Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT) is part of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. It is a multi-disciplinary team managed along with services provided by the Local Authority. Building on the current CLDT provision, this post will facilitate the provision of children and adult specialist service offering assessment, intervention, and training for people who have a learning disability, complex behavioural/and or mental health needs. This post involves a range of clinical activities, including supporting senior nurse with monitoring of behavioural case load, assessments and interventions and managing risk in the community. Liaising and working in collaboration within the multi-disciplinary work force. The ideal candidate will be passionate about working in collaboration with service users, their family, carers and professional colleagues in order to enhance health and well-being, and to prevent or reduce behaviour that challenges., This post will be based with the Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. The post holder will work within the Enhanced Crisis Aversion Team. The post holder will provide and support in highly specialised behavioural assessments and interventions for children and adults who present with severe behaviours that challenge. The post holder will assist senior staff with the development of highly specialised Positive Behavioural Support Plans for patients and service providers in order to reduce or prevent placement breakdowns or admissions into inpatient settings., The post holder will provide support with the development of highly specialised nursing care and Positive Behavioural Support plans for children and adults living within the North Tyneside area who present with complex behavioural/mental health needs. The post holder will carry out behavioural assessments, observations and interventions under the direction of a senior nurse. There is an expectation the post holder will contribute to all relevant meetings and be involved with service development, audits and quality improvements.

• NVQ 3 or the equivalent level of knowledge and skill gained through experience and theoretical knowledge to diploma level equivalent, Extensive experience of working with people who have learning disabilities and challenging behaviours.
• The candidate needs to have skills and experience in using Positive Behaviour Support
• The job holder needs to have relevant skills that will enable them to work effectively with patients who have complex behavioural needs, It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
  
  We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.