Job overview

Job overview

NELFT would like to introduce the launch of the Intensive Support Team, which aims to support people with a Learning Disability and Autism who requires specialist crisis intervention. We believe that individuals who display challenging behaviours, including those with a mental health condition, should have access to the same opportunities to live satisfying and valued lives.

The service was developed in response to the best means of supporting our people with a learning disability and autism at a critical time in their journey, offering the least restrictive environment and ensuring that we provide the best response to those users of the service who needs specialist support, together with their carers and families.

The post holder will work collaboratively with other LD and mental health care professionals to provide high-quality, comprehensive and dynamic specialist nursing services to maintain and improve the health and well-being of adults with learning disabilities. This will include working directly with service users who have complex healthcare needs, supporting other staff who provide clinical care to people with healthcare needs of lesser complexity, and also engaging in a range of health promotion activities.
The candidate will also be required to work with multiple agencies and service providers across NELFT, which will need excellent communication skills.

Main duties of the job

• Member of the multi-disciplinary team and active participation in team meetings.
  • Have a key role in working with a wide range of health professionals and other partners and agencies to reduce health inequalities and promote access to mainstream health services
  • Work as partners with individuals and their families, providing advice and support, anticipating health needs, promoting self-care and enabling people to be as independent and involved as possible
  • Represent the service and individual service users at multi-disciplinary meetings, taking a lead role where appropriate and integrating speech and language therapy needs into a service user management plan.
  • Communicate often complex information effectively to service users and carers, using alternative methods of communication where appropriate, to maximise treatment potential whilst ensuring an understanding of risks and benefits of assessment and treatment/interventions.
  • Provide advice and teaching to service users, their families and carers, health professionals within the team and NELFT, the wider health community, and public, voluntary and private agencies.
  • Share information effectively and concisely for a range of situations and contexts to ensure safety and continuity of care Leadership.

Working for our organisation

Our Values 2025 - 2030

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co- produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.

They are:

We are kind.

We are respectful.

We work together with our communities.

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.

Starting with NELFT (delete for internal only)

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being  properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters  will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will  undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which  will include mandatory training, systems training and the  allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will  have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior  managers, and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on  engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The  induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period.

High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of  15%of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,714 and a  maximum payment of £5,941 - per annum, pro rata for part time.