Job overview

PPT provide evidence based long-term intervention that supports the development and maintenance of capable environments that reduce the risk of placement breakdown/admission to hospital and enhance the quality of life of service users with complex and challenging needs.  Promoting a Positive Behavioural Support approach PPT provide competency-based training and skills development in; Understanding and Responding to Autism (SPELL Framework), Person Centred Active Support and Understanding and Responding to Behaviours that Challenge.  Established in 2019 the team works with service users, their families and community-based support networks including social workers and CLDHT colleagues across Buckinghamshire. Taking internal referrals from clinicians within the Bucks Community Learning Disability Team, PPT are an integral part of the Bucks pathway supporting people who exhibit behaviour that challenges.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide long-term support for identified people with complex needs by identifying and responding to potential problems as they emerge, identifying early signs of placement breakdown and linking the person/service provider into appropriate support. PPT Co-ordinators are an integral part of the Learning Disability Health Team. The PPT Co-ordinator’s role will include:

Supporting people with a learning disability and challenging behaviour to live in welcoming and supportive communities.

Providing personalised, flexible and responsive support to assist individuals, families, services and communities to access accurate and timely information to clarify their goals, strengths and needs.

Supporting the delivery of PPT’s training suite and providing opportunities to embed the learning into the day to day.

Operating as a service coordinator (rather than a service provider) and helping the referred person and their families/carers to plan, select and receive needed supports and services

 Assisting people and their supports/services to manage barriers and constraints in achieving their preferred lifestyle, including:

assisting local services to act early before the barriers and constraints jeopardise the person’s ability to remain in their local community

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?