Community Learning Disability Care Coordinator | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 07 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 pro rate |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 May 2025 |
| Location: | Hollingworth, SK14 8HR |
| Company: | Pennine Care NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7129549/311-F788-25-B |
Summary
The Community Learning Disability Care coordinator will provide a comprehensive mental health service to adults of working age who experience severe mental illness and diagnosed learning disability within the community. The practitioner will work across both mental health and learning disability teams and in patients at Tameside hospital. The role will include admission prevention and safe discharge planning within a multi disciplinary approach wiht other partners.
They will also: -
• Work collaboratively across a range of disciplines to continuously promote a ‘needs based’ approach to all service users.
• Promote an integrated approach to service delivery.
• Develop clear relapse recognition / prevention plans and share with MDT, service users and carers where appropriate
Develop meaningful engagement with individuals who are often referred to as ‘difficult to engage’ and their families
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
• To act as Care Co-ordinator to service users with learning disability and complex severe and enduring mental illness.
• To carry a caseload and work with evidence based interventions to include: -oAssessment of need of the service user and careroFormulation of care plan
oImplementation of a plan of care for the service user in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team, referring agent, family/carer and service user, where appropriate.oAssessment and monitoring of risk
• To monitor, review and evaluate treatment and care in accordance with C.P.A. and to make timely referrals to recovery services once the treatment and stabilisation of mental health and social circumstances has been effected.
• To support the commissioning of an appropriate package of care in the community by liaising with relevant partners.
• To liaise with all agencies, and members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the needs of the service user are met.
• Establish and maintain communication with individuals and groups on the caseload about difficult or complex matters, in such a way as to overcome any problems in communication.
• To carry out clinic duties such as the Clozaril/ administration of depot injections either in the clients home or in the clinics. To manage medication and its administration within Trust Policy
• To supervise Community Support Workers / Band 5s as appropriate to implement elements of the care plan.
• To maintain accurate, up to date records of all service users referred and receiving assessment, care treatment and support.
• To offer initial an initial holistic assessment to those newly referred to the service, and signpost as appropriate.
• Be able to offer a rapid response to service users’ immediate needs, including those arising from crises.
• To work in a therapeutically informed way within the multi-disciplinary team to address the needs of service users with complex emotional needs/
• To maintain a persistent approach to engagement where there are complex mental health and learning disabilities.
• To have the capacity to prioritise and work flexibly with MDT in order to respond to rapidly changing clinical needs.
• To be actively involved in safeguarding adult procedures.
• To work collaboratively with primary and secondary care services to ensure that the physical health needs of service users are met.
• To promote the physical health and wellbeing of service users
This advert closes on Monday 21 Apr 2025