Dynamic Support Keyworker

Job description

Job summary

Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HTFT would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

This role is part of the Humber and North Yorkshire Dynamic Support Keyworker Service, which works alongside autistic children and young people, and children and young people with a learning disability, up to the age of 25, who are at an increased likelihood of experiencing a mental health hospital admission.

The service provides support across Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire and York. We work in partnership with individuals, families, carers and professionals across health, education, social care, and the voluntary and community sector to ensure support is coordinated, personalised and responsive to what matters most to each person.

We welcome applications from people with lived experience and from those with experience of working alongside autistic people, people with a learning disability, or both.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, equality is promoted, and discrimination is actively challenged. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and believe that a diverse workforce strengthens the quality of the support we provide.

Main duties of the job

You will be someone who:

• Communicates with warmth, empathy and respect, and is able to build trusting relationships with individuals, families, carers and professionals.
• Is committed to trauma-informed, neuro-affirming practice, recognising the impact of trauma, adversity and systemic barriers on people's lives.
• Upholds the rights, voices and choices of autistic people and people with a learning disability, ensuring they are at the centre of decisions that affect them.
• Takes a collaborative, strengths-based and solution-focused approach, working alongside others to develop creative and personalised responses to complex situations.
• Has experience of supporting people who may experience multiple vulnerabilities, recognising the importance of reducing distress, promoting their psychological safety and preventing unnecessary escalation.
• Has an understanding of children's, young people's and adult services, and values partnership working across organisational boundaries to improve outcomes.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

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 recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

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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Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information with regards to this vacancy please see the attached Job description and Person Specification.

Job description
Job responsibilities

For further information with regards to this vacancy please see the attached Job description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

• Professional qualification equivalent to degree level in a relevant subject, or equivalent level of experience of autistic people, people with learning disabilities, or both, gained through lived experience, education, youth work, health, or social services.
• Understanding of a range of work procedures and practices, which require expertise within a specialism or discipline underpinned by theoretical knowledge of relevant practical experience.

Desirable

• Lived Experience specific to learning disabilities, autism or both with children, young people and adults up to the age of 25.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with autistic people and/or people with a learning disability, people with complex communication and behavioural issues, and their parents/families/carers.
• Experience of liaising with multi- disciplinary professionals and working across agencies, holding to account where appropriate.

Desirable

• Have experience and skills in undertaking holistic whole family assessments and risk assessments.

Skills and competences

Essential

• Empathy/Understanding - able to demonstrate an approach that requires an understanding of the needs from the perspective of people and their family and carers.
• Positive and Solution focussed - has positive, solution focussed approach to ensuring the best outcomes for people and their family and carers.
• Commitment to joined-up collaborative working.

Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

• Professional qualification equivalent to degree level in a relevant subject, or equivalent level of experience of autistic people, people with learning disabilities, or both, gained through lived experience, education, youth work, health, or social services.
• Understanding of a range of work procedures and practices, which require expertise within a specialism or discipline underpinned by theoretical knowledge of relevant practical experience.

Desirable

• Lived Experience specific to learning disabilities, autism or both with children, young people and adults up to the age of 25.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with autistic people and/or people with a learning disability, people with complex communication and behavioural issues, and their parents/families/carers.
• Experience of liaising with multi- disciplinary professionals and working across agencies, holding to account where appropriate.

Desirable

• Have experience and skills in undertaking holistic whole family assessments and risk assessments.

Skills and competences

Essential

• Empathy/Understanding - able to demonstrate an approach that requires an understanding of the needs from the perspective of people and their family and carers.
• Positive and Solution focussed - has positive, solution focussed approach to ensuring the best outcomes for people and their family and carers.
• Commitment to joined-up collaborative working.

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.
Certificate of Sponsorship

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 .

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. .

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.
Certificate of Sponsorship

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 .

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. .

Employer details

Employer name

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Humber NHS Trust HQ,

Beverley Road

Willerby

HU10 6ED

United Kingdom

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