Job overview

The Positive Partnerships Team (PPT) is part of the Essex Learning Disability Partnership (ELDP) and works with service users, family carers, social care provider services and local community organisations across Essex to ensure people with a learning disability and challenging complex needs are supported safely and effectively to live a fulfilling life. PPT will deliver training and practice development opportunities to family carers and paid support staff to equip them with the appropriate skills to be effective in supporting people to live in the community and more able to achieve real gains in people’s quality of life.

PPT will deliver training in the following areas:

 · Person Centred Active Support

 · Positive Behaviour Support

· SPELL, Introduction to Autism.  

All of our training is competency based, and ongoing Practice Development opportunities ensure new knowledge and skills are embedded and implemented.

Main duties of the job

The Post Holder will be responsible for coordinating, developing and providing competency based training and development opportunities that will meet the needs of identified staff groups and services, as well as engaging and sharing information and resources with family carers and other members of an individual’s support network.

The post holder will work with the team leader to maintain active, open and robust communication between the Trust, Essex County Council and local voluntary/private sector agencies to ensure training and development provision is achieved.

They will deliver an outreach service, ensuring that learning and development opportunities are available and publicised to all; advising individuals on learning, appropriate to their goals and developing leadership capabilities to promote and encourage learning across the whole workforce. In addition, the PPT Practice Development Trainer will work closely with other members of the team to continue to develop the service, responding to new initiatives accordingly, keeping abreast of local and national drivers to continue to support the direction of PPT within the relevant frameworks.

The Postholder will be responsible for ensuring effective tools are in place for continued service evaluation and to demonstrate the effectiveness of the service. All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.

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?