North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Enablement Worker
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IST Enablement Worker
This is a great opportunity for a band 4 enablement worker to join the Intensive Support Team (IST), a community team based in Hanley. This is a part-time post (23.5 hours) and it is on a permanent basis. We provide time-limited specialist support, assessment, formulation, and intervention for individuals experiencing a significant decline in their quality of life as a result of complex mental health needs and/or distressed behaviors that may result in placement/home breakdown and/or hospital admission.
As an enablement worker you will bring to the team excellent observational skills to inform assessments, be able to implement care plans based on positive behavioral approaches and model these to both the clients, families, and their carers. You will work within a variety of different community settings, offering support, advice, and direct care to build partnership working between services and work towards a shared goal for the service user. You will be required to work both within a team and also alone depending upon service user need. You will have a significant role in providing high-quality, person-centered care and support, based upon holistic and evidence-based assessment, role-modelling the Trust Values, and will be an advocate for the service user’s needs, wants, and wishes in line with these.
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To offer support with a defined caseload, consistent with high-quality evidence-based practice within the Intensive Support Team. Supporting the provision of community-based service to individuals with complex needs who are experiencing an increase in personal difficulties, additionally providing support to enhance carers’ skills when supporting people with a learning disability who challenge services.
The service is committed to the use of Person-Centred Planning approaches and affording adults with learning disabilities opportunities to maximize independence, citizenship, choice, and control. The role will support the Intensive Support Team to improve the health and wellbeing of adults with learning disabilities by undertaking assigned tasks and roles, developing therapeutic relationships with service users and carers.
The Community Team offers a service to clients who may have a number of complex and challenging behaviors; these may include physical aggression to self, others, and the environment, self-injurious behavior, antisocial behavior, as well as complex physical health needs i.e., epilepsy, eating disorders.
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high-quality care.
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We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognize that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities, and the planet alike.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi, and trans communities.
The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Victoria Gill
- Job title: Team Manager
- Email address: victoria.gill@combined.nhs.uk
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