Keyworker - Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom - Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

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Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Humber and North Yorkshire Keyworker Service.

This role will focus on supporting autistic young people and those with a learning disability up to the age of 25 who are at the highest risk of being admitted to a mental health hospital.

This role is to help them and their families/carers as they prepare for adulthood and transition between services.

We are looking for people with lived experience or experience of working with autistic people and/or people with a learning disability or both.

Are you a good communicator and able to work closely with a range of multi-agency partners?

You should:

Have empathy, compassion, respect, commitment to ensuring the rights of autistic people and those with a learning disability are protected.

Be positive, solution focused and be committed to joined-up collaborative working.

Have experience of supporting people who face multiple vulnerabilities.

Have knowledge of children, young people, and adult services.

This post holder will:

Manage a caseload of people who have been identified as requiring a Keyworker.

Facilitate the provision of emotional and behavioural support and informed advice to people and their families/carers based on knowledge and experience of working with people, families and carers with complex needs.

Provide information and support to people with a learning disability, autistic people or both and their families to ensure that personalisation approaches are embedded in their plans and that creative solutions are considered to meet the individual's needs, supporting with personal health budgets and integrated personal budgets.

Create and encourage a culture which prioritises keeping people within the home and their local community by communicating with a range of teams, services and staff from a range of statutory and non-statutory.

Build and maintain positive, trusting and appropriate relationships with autistic people, those with a learning disability, or both and their families/carers.

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire.

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We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone.

Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job description and personal specification