A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a rare opportunity to join our friendly Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. Our team is a large well-established and supportive multi-disciplinary team offering holistic health care support to children and adults who have a learning disability living in North Tyneside.
We are looking for staff who are passionate about providing support to people who present with complex physical/mental health issues and behavioural histories. To work within our Primary Health Care Team in CLDT.
The ideal candidate will have an understanding of National and Local Policies relating to the management of working with people who present with complex healthcare needs, behaviours that challenge, as well as experience of working within a PBS framework.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
In North Tyneside, the 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 services offering assessment, intervention, and training for people who have a learning disability, complex health needs, and complex behavioural/and or mental health needs.
This post involves a range of clinical activities, including supporting the senior nurse with monitoring of health/behavioural case load, assessments and interventions, and managing risk in the community. Liaising and working in collaboration within the multi-disciplinary workforce. Promoting fair access to health care.
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.
Responsibilities include:
1. Carry out health assessments, identifying health needs of those with complex healthcare needs. Working in collaboration with other health professionals to ensure fair access to health care.
2. Implementation of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) plans to provide support to patients, carers, and care providers to reduce or prevent challenging behaviours and reduce admission to in-patient units.
3. Offer early/timely intervention when there is deterioration in a patient’s condition by working with staff and the patient within their home, offering assessment and intervention, including practical hands-on support.
4. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables, and empowers others, (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement, and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Tuesday 31 Dec 2024.
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