Job summary
The Positive Partnerships Team (PPT) is part of the Essex Learning Disability Partnership (ELDP) and works with service users, family carers, social care provider services and local community organisations across Essex to ensure people with a learning disability and challenging complex needs are supported safely and effectively to live a fulfilling life. PPT will deliver training and practice development opportunities to family carers and paid support staff to equip them with the appropriate skills to be effective in supporting people to live in the community and more able to achieve real gains in people's quality of life.
PPT will deliver training in the following areas:
Person Centred Active Support
Positive Behaviour Support
SPELL, Introduction to Autism.
All of our training is competency based, and ongoing Practice Development opportunities ensure new knowledge and skills are embedded and implemented.
Main duties of the job
The Post Holder will be responsible for coordinating, developing and providing competency based training and development opportunities that will meet the needs of identified staff groups and services, as well as engaging and sharing information and resources with family carers and other members of an individual's support network.
The post holder will work with the team leader to maintain active, open and robust communication between the Trust, Essex County Council and local voluntary/private sector agencies to ensure training and development provision is achieved.
They will deliver an outreach service, ensuring that learning and development opportunities are available and publicised to all; advising individuals on learning, appropriate to their goals and developing leadership capabilities to promote and encourage learning across the whole workforce. In addition, the PPT Practice Development Trainer will work closely with other members of the team to continue to develop the service, responding to new initiatives accordingly, keeping abreast of local and national drivers to continue to support the direction of PPT within the relevant frameworks.
The Postholder will be responsible for ensuring effective tools are in place for continued service evaluation and to demonstrate the effectiveness of the service. All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information, please refer to the attached job description and person specification document.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information, please refer to the attached job description and person specification document.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential
- Degree or equivalent level of knowledge & experience
- Evidence of training and development qualification/or significant relevant experience in a learning, education or workforce role
- Skills and accreditation in providing training in Positive behaviour support, PersonCentred Active Support and/or Person Centred Planning
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Demonstrable experience in the design of training programmes and documentation
- Experience of delivering and/or facilitating training
- Experience conducting learning needs analysis processes and analysing the outcomes in order to determine priorities
- Experience conducting evaluation of training programmes
Desirable
- Experience in commissioning education and training, identifying and evaluating potential suppliers, taking into account quality and cost
- Experience using benchmarks/ standards to measure quality of learning and education
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Essential
- Excellent computer skills including MS Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, web technologies or e-learning
- Demonstrable ability to establish effective working relationships with managers, staff and external partners
- Ability to meet conflicting demands and to problem solve and suggest solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate complex topics to trainees of all levels in clear language
- Able to analyse training needs and set measurable outcomes.
- Proactive and flexible with the ability to show initiative and enthusiasm for work
- Ability to prioritise effectively in a busy environment
- Able to understand wider organisational issues and translate these within the context of learning and education
- Ability to promote a culture of learning and development across the organisation
- Ability to use initiative and judgment to resolve problems and complex situations
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential
- Degree or equivalent level of knowledge & experience
- Evidence of training and development qualification/or significant relevant experience in a learning, education or workforce role
- Skills and accreditation in providing training in Positive behaviour support, PersonCentred Active Support and/or Person Centred Planning
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Demonstrable experience in the design of training programmes and documentation
- Experience of delivering and/or facilitating training
- Experience conducting learning needs analysis processes and analysing the outcomes in order to determine priorities
- Experience conducting evaluation of training programmes
Desirable
- Experience in commissioning education and training, identifying and evaluating potential suppliers, taking into account quality and cost
- Experience using benchmarks/ standards to measure quality of learning and education
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Essential
- Excellent computer skills including MS Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, web technologies or e-learning
- Demonstrable ability to establish effective working relationships with managers, staff and external partners
- Ability to meet conflicting demands and to problem solve and suggest solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate complex topics to trainees of all levels in clear language
- Able to analyse training needs and set measurable outcomes.
- Proactive and flexible with the ability to show initiative and enthusiasm for work
- Ability to prioritise effectively in a busy environment
- Able to understand wider organisational issues and translate these within the context of learning and education
- Ability to promote a culture of learning and development across the organisation
- Ability to use initiative and judgment to resolve problems and complex situations
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
