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Job overview

Are you interested in being part of the Specialist Learning Disability Services in Herts & Bucks?

Do you have the passion and energy to make a real difference in the lives of people with an intellectual disability?

We are currently looking to recruit a skilled and experienced Support Worker to work alongside our Health Access Champions.

Health Access Champions are employees of the trust who have mild learning disabilities and specific support needs in relation to this.  The Support Worker must understand the unique challenges and provide appropriate support structures to support and develop the Health Access Champions in their role.

If you have the right skills and experience and would like to support others to develop their role, then this could be for yo

Main duties of the job

• The post holder  will mentor and work alongside Health Access Champions at all times to overcome any barriers, and acknowledging their social, emotional, physical and wellbeing needs to enable them to maintain effective working relationships and fulfil their job role using and interpreting up to date knowledge of the practical application of equalities and social care legislation plus relevant national and local guidance pertaining to people with learning disabilities.
• A key element is to provide 1:1 support to the individuals within the workplace.
• Interpret Health Access Champions’ individual needs and co-create a work plan that includes achievable targets to ensure the Health Access Champions reach their potential within the workplace with their agreement.
• Attendance at meetings with all Health Access Champions and support with their bespoke mandatory training.
• Supporting Health Access Champions across Herts & Bucks, at times on a 1:1 basis, to ensure they are working to the level required and following work plans. This incorporates specific role modelling and support for Health Champions in situational influencing.

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 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…”