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Intensive Support Service practitioner
| Posting date: | 06 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,970.00 to £36,483.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £29970.00 - £36483.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 January 2025 |
| Location: | Norwich, NE13 5EW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9367-25-0019 |
Summary
JOB SUMMARY The post holder will work in close collaboration with other professionals, including the wider Multi Disciplinary Team (nursing, psychiatry, psychology and speech and language therapy) in assessing service users needs, devising care plans and evaluating outcomes that promote service user empowerment through the process. The post holder, with the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team will provide high quality, individualised care, which addresses the needs of the service users and meets individual health needs. The Intensive Support Team (ISS) team will provide intensive support to adults with learning disabilities who are presenting challenging behaviour and / or mental health problems in the community to prevent, where possible, admission to hospital. The team will act as a gateway to the inpatient assessment and treatment service and work in close liaison with inpatient services to facilitate appropriate admission and timely discharge from services. The team will provide a 9am to 5pm (there may be some variation to this) service across the seven day week (Including bank holidays) and will work with the service user in a variety of health and social care settings. The post holder may be required to work within 24 hour shift patterns to support the role in agreement with the Team Leader. See JD/PS for further details