Job overview

Job Summary: The PPT Coordinator role will be to:

Ensure consistent and effective long-term support is available for people with challenging and complex needs and their carers by:

-Facilitating access to specialist services early before the problem becomes intractable

-Facilitating access to mainstream services where this is appropriate and ensuring that reasonable adjustments are made

-Providing long term support for people who have returned to the county as part of the transitions from long stay institutions and Assessment and Treatment Units to community settings

Reduce the number of admissions to inpatient assessment and treatment services by responding to problems as they first emerge

Increasing capacity within the Learning Disability Health Team to manage the additional demand arising from the transition of complex service users back to Essex by providing long-term support once the initial assessment and intervention phases have been completed

Reducing the number of people placed in out-of-county placements.

Main duties of the job

Job Responsibilities:

Coordination

To build and maintain effective working relationships with referred people, their carers/families and communities in a defined local area.

To support access to accurate, timely and relevant information and to assist individuals, families and communities to access information through a variety of means.

To provide individuals and families with support and practical assistance to clarify their goals, strengths and needs through the development of individual care and person-centred plans.

To support access to effective independent advocacy and self-advocacy support as required.

To assist individuals, carers and families to use personal and local community networks to develop practical solutions to meet their identified goals and needs.

To assists individuals and families to access the supports and services they need to achieve their identified care plan and goals, including access to local health and social services.

In collaboration with the Service User and their family, to monitor the quality of the service provided by the funded support services and raise concerns with the Learning Disability Health Team.

To collaborate with the other members of Learning Disability Health Team to facilitate implementation of recommended intervention and support strategies.

Where training and development needs are identified, supporting access to the Training Function within the Team.

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?