Highly Specialist Behaviour Support Practitioner | East London NHS Foundation Trust

1. Maintain clinical direction and leadership; help to coordinate a team of clinical staff for the continuous and consistent provision of high quality health care to people in mental health or behavioural crisis in the community
2. Act as a role model in the practice area, encouraging staff in teaching, supervision, facilitating and assessing, create and sustain a supportive/teaching/learning environment for the practice setting
3. Participate in developing policy and improve quality standards across the service
4. Take responsibility for the smooth running of the service on a day to day basis.
5. Take responsibility for leading on the review and collation of data for the service ensuring it meets performance targets and escalate concerns or variations to this.
6. Undertake advanced clinical reasoning in assessment and intervention for people with Learning Disabilities, working to avoid placement breakdown or admissions under the Mental Health Act (1983)
7. Work collaboratively with service users, carers, Community Learning Disability Services, inpatient services, local authorities and other primary and secondary care services within East London

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations

As a senior clinician within the team your primary responsibility will be to deliver intensive community-based support, aiming to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitate the individual's well-being and recovery within their familiar environment. This will also include providing in-reach support inpatient environments.

You will take a lead role in supporting adults with Learning Disabilities in the community who are experiencing a crisis in their mental health or behaviour. You will be experienced in working with adults with Learning Disabilities and co-occurring mental health difficulties. You will also provide consultation and advice to colleagues supporting Autistic adults without a Learning Disability who are experiencing acute mental health needs.

You will work as a part of a multidisciplinary team, building relationships within the Intensive Support Team as well as with the Community Learning Disability and Inpatient services across east London.

You will deputise for the Clinical Team Manager in supporting team members and ensuring the effective delivery of the service.

The East London Intensive Support Team provides a 7 day a week urgent and intensive community response for people with Learning Disabilities with additional complex mental health needs and/or behaviours that services perceive to be challenging, that result in the person posing a risk to themselves or others. The service operates across the inner east London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and City and Hackney.