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Job summary

Main area
Learning Disabilities
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (09.00 - 17.00) Monday to Friday)
Job ref
367-LD&F-9603
Employer
Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Tekhnicon House
Town
Braintree
Salary
£47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
19/08/2025 23:59

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Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

Intensive support Team Leader

NHS AfC: Band 7

Values Based Screener

At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form. 

http://hpft.recruitforvalues.co

Job overview

We have a rare & exciting opportunity for an experienced & passionate Learning Disability nurse to join  the Intensive Support Team ( IST )in the Team  leader band 7 position within the West Specialist Learning Disability Service.

 

Main duties of the job

The Team Leader role in IST involves working with adults with a learning disability and challenging Behavior and/  or mental health issues in the community with the aim to prevent an admission to hospital. 

Working for our organisation

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 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?

 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Team leader role requires a dynamic and enthusiastic Learning Disability nurse who has experience   of working in the community and an understanding of the Transforming Care Agenda  and a passion for working with the individual, their carers and  networks  to support individuals in their  own home and  explore  alternatives to hospital admission

To achieve this you will be leading the Intensive support nurses and senior support workers & your role will include

  • Supervision of band 6 nurses  & monitoring of band 5 & band 4 supervisions 
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills
  • Operational management of  IST including annual leave, e-roster  
  • leadership of student nurse placements and recruitment
  • Professional  responsibilities  including CPD  & preceptorship.
  • Monitoring of Caseloads and case management to try and help prevent admission.
  • Screening and allocating referrals 
  • Charing Nurses meetings and prevention of hospital admissions 

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • RNLD /RNMHH
  • ENB 997/998( Mentoring & Preceptorship) or equivalent
  • Post graduate qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • At least 2 years’ experience of working in a Specialist LD community Service.
  • Clinical and operational management of junior staff
  • Managing service priorities met

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoMenopause Friendly EmployerAge positiveMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Happy to Talk Flexible Working

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mary Seaman
Job title
Community Service Manager
Telephone number
0746 8701641
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