Support Worker (Learning Disabilities)
| Posting date: | 03 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,937 - £26,598 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 November 2025 |
| Location: | Wallsend, NE28 7PD |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7510328/319-7510328IO |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
In North Tyneside the CLDT is part of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. It is a multi-disciplinary team managed along with services provided by the Local Authority.
Building on the current CLDT provision, this post will facilitate the provision of children and adult specialist service offering assessment, intervention, and training for people who have a learning disability, complex behavioural/and or mental health needs.
This post involves a range of clinical activities, including supporting senior nurse with monitoring of behavioural case load, assessments and interventions in the community. Liaising and working in collaboration within the multi-disciplinary work force.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about working in collaboration with service users, their family, carers and professional colleagues in order to enhance health and well-being, and to prevent or reduce behaviour that challenges.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
This post will be based with the Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. The post holder will work within the Enhanced Crisis Aversion Team. The post holder will support in highly specialised behavioural assessments and interventions for children and adults who present with severe behaviours that challenge.
The post holder will support senior staff with the development of highly specialised Positive Behavioural Support Plans for patients and service providers in order to reduce or prevent placement breakdowns or admissions into inpatient settings.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
The post holder will support with the development of highly specialised behavioural assessments, interventions and the development of Positive Behavioural Support plans for children and adults living within the North Tyneside area who present with complex behavioural/mental health needs. The post holder will support with behavioural assessments, observations and interventions under the direction of a senior nurse.
There is an expectation the post holder will contribute to all relevant meetings and be involved with service development, audits and quality improvements.
A driver’s licence and access to vehicle is essential for this role.
This advert closes on Sunday 19 Oct 2025
In North Tyneside the CLDT is part of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. It is a multi-disciplinary team managed along with services provided by the Local Authority.
Building on the current CLDT provision, this post will facilitate the provision of children and adult specialist service offering assessment, intervention, and training for people who have a learning disability, complex behavioural/and or mental health needs.
This post involves a range of clinical activities, including supporting senior nurse with monitoring of behavioural case load, assessments and interventions in the community. Liaising and working in collaboration within the multi-disciplinary work force.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about working in collaboration with service users, their family, carers and professional colleagues in order to enhance health and well-being, and to prevent or reduce behaviour that challenges.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
This post will be based with the Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. The post holder will work within the Enhanced Crisis Aversion Team. The post holder will support in highly specialised behavioural assessments and interventions for children and adults who present with severe behaviours that challenge.
The post holder will support senior staff with the development of highly specialised Positive Behavioural Support Plans for patients and service providers in order to reduce or prevent placement breakdowns or admissions into inpatient settings.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
The post holder will support with the development of highly specialised behavioural assessments, interventions and the development of Positive Behavioural Support plans for children and adults living within the North Tyneside area who present with complex behavioural/mental health needs. The post holder will support with behavioural assessments, observations and interventions under the direction of a senior nurse.
There is an expectation the post holder will contribute to all relevant meetings and be involved with service development, audits and quality improvements.
A driver’s licence and access to vehicle is essential for this role.
This advert closes on Sunday 19 Oct 2025