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Are you interested in being a part of an exciting initiative within the Specialist Learning Disability Service in Hertfordshire?

Do you have the passion and energy to make a real difference in the lives of people with an intellectual disability, by developing robust, personalised, flexible and responsive support?

We are currently looking to recruit an Assistant Coordinator with experience of working with people with learning disabilities and their support network.

The Positive Partnerships Team (PPT) is part of the Specialist Learning Disabilities Service in Hertfordshire.  PPT provides training and support to care provider organisations in Positive Behavioural Support and other person-centred approaches. 

If you have experience of working with people with a learning disability in a supportive role and would like to apply your skills and knowledge to help others develop their approach, then this could be for you.

The Positive Partnerships Team is an integral part of our Specialist Learning Disabilities Service and works closely with other health and social care services within Hertfordshire.

The Posts  will be based at Saffron Ground, Watford and Colne House in Watford.

Travel by car throughout the area covered by the service is essential.

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The Assistant Coordinator will support the delivery of consistent and effective training and on-going practice development opportunities to care organisations to help strengthen their capacity to provide robust and skilled support to people living in Hertfordshire as part of the Transforming Care programme.

The postholder will also help identify local community resources for people to engage in in their local area, they will support with information gathering and will work alongside other members of the team contributing to service delivery and supporting other service initiatives.

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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 3500 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?

Then please read on…