Senior Practitioner Learning Disability and Autism Keyworker Service

A Vacancy at 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust.

A band 7 post has arisen in our small and friendly Keyworker team supporting young people with learning disabilities and/or autism across Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.

As a Senior Practitioner, alongside direct work with families the postholder will have development opportunities to support less experienced colleagues in their work and support the service manager in driving service development.

The LD/ASD Keyworker Service provides intensive interventions for children and young people who are part of the LD & ASD cohort. The aim is to keep children, young people in the community, to prevent avoidable admissions to Tier 4 inpatient mental health services and 52-week residential placements, and to support young people in this cohort to be discharged from Tier 4 services and be supported back into the community.

Watch Service Manager Sinclair Jenkins speaking about roles in the team here: BEH Keyworker Roles: Linked In

The Senior Practitioner within the Learning Disability (LD) and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Keyworker Service will provide direct support to children with learning disabilities and/or autism with mental health needs and/or presenting with behaviours of concern.

You will be liaising and coordinating with a range of teams and organisations across Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey, including CAMHS providers, social care teams, Tier 4 providers, schools, and other community health providers.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

• To ensure appropriate service representation and input to meetings, including Care Education and Treatment Reviews (CETR’s) Care Programme Approach (CPA) meetings, as well as Child in Need (CIN) meetings, Child Protection Conferences, Core Groups, Looked-After Child (LAC) Reviews, and Education, Health, and Care (EHC) Annual Reviews, as appropriate.
• To attend, contribute to, and update on, cases at the local Admission Avoidance Dynamic Support Register (DSR) meetings.
• To establish and maintain good working relationships with stakeholders including partners and parents to promote joint working and their involvement in the service.
• Involvement in the ongoing development of the service, including making suggestions for improvements and working to implement changes to the service as agreed with commissioners.
• To attend and provide information to the relevant panels and boards.

• To contribute to meeting key performance targets assigned to the service, the collation of management information and financial information to inform monitoring, future planning, and cost projections.
• Have responsibility for agreeing the support available to families from the service, including the personal budget funding for the families (alongside other professionals where appropriate).

• To prioritise and utilise regular one-to-one and group supervision to develop and reflect on own practice and share knowledge and expertise to enhance service delivery and improve outcomes for families/carers.
• To ensure high standards of case recording using the relevant information systems to capture all necessary inputs, outputs, and outcomes for young people and their families and carers.
• To achieve service outcomes and outputs, and personal appraisal targets, as agreed with your line manager.
• To consistently manage your own time, planning your work in advance and using appropriate systems to maximise your effectiveness.
• To work flexibly to suit the needs of children and young people with complex needs and their families/carers; this may include early starts, late finishes, evenings and weekends as required.

• To use and assist others in the use of information technology systems to carry out duties in the most efficient and effective manner.
• To adhere to theGDPR and other legislation

• To be a key point of contact for families/carers allocated to you, identifyinggaps in their support and enabling the system to work together to bridge those gaps.
• To work within and contribute to, detailed risk assessments for the youngpeople: to support planning and facilitate discharge where required.
• Facilitate the provision and implementation of tailored behavioural andemotional support to help a child or young person and their families/carers,develop skills for progress and self-management to meet their agreed goals,and outcomes.
• To work as part of a team approach, maintain the highest standards of practise, competence and conduct at work, and ensure the team operates in a positive, reflective, and forward-thinking culture.
• To take responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young persons in your care and those who you encounter, responding to any concerns promptly in line with local and national guidance on safeguarding children.
• To provide competent professional advice and direction in respect of childcare and safeguarding policy and practice.
• To contribute to regular reviews of the service; to quality assure review outcomes in relation to the provision of the service.
• To support the service to deliver intensive time limited intervention ‘packages’ which achieve positive change for children and families based on shared objectives, which are regularly reviewed by the Team Around the Child.
• To adhere to the Code of Conduct of the relevant professional body, such as Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) or UKCP.

• To ensure appropriate service representation and input to meetings, including Care Education and Treatment Reviews (CETR’s) Care Programme Approach (CPA) meetings, as well as Child in Need (CIN) meetings, Child Protection Conferences, Core Groups, Looked-After Child (LAC) Reviews, and Education, Health and Care (EHC) Annual Reviews, as appropriate.
• To attend, contribute to, and update on, cases at the local Admission Avoidance Dynamic Support Register (DSR) meetings.
• To establish and maintain good working relationships with stakeholders including partners and parents to promote joint working and their involvement in the service.
• To contribute to meeting key performance targets assigned to the service, the collation of management information and financial information to inform monitoring, future planning, and cost projections.
• Have responsibility for agreeing the support available to families from the service, including the personal budget funding for the families (alongside other professionals where appropriate)
• Involvement in the ongoing development of the service, including making suggestions for improvements and working to implement changes to the service as agreed with commissioners.
• To attend and provide information to the relevant panels and boards.

• To prioritise and utilise regular one-to-one and group supervision, to develop and reflect on own practice and share knowledge and expertise, to enhance service delivery and improve outcomes for families/carers.
• To undertake training and constructively take part in meetings, supervision, seminars and other events designed to improve communication and assist with the effective development of the post and post holder.

• To support with data collection and to carry out audits as per required.
• To support with the compilation of reports as per required by the commissioners.
• To carry out Quality Improvement Projects within the service to help develop service provision.

• All staff are responsible for the continual compliance with CQC standards and outcomes.
• The postholder must be aware of, and work in line with, the Trust’s Safeguarding Adults and Children procedures.

• All staff are required to be appraised by their line managers at least once a year at a personal development review meeting where progress made over the last year is discussed and agreed. Focus on the following year’s departmental and personal objectives will be identified, discussed and agreed. Where necessary, help and support will be provided and development opportunities agreed in line with service provision and the knowledge and skills competency framework.

This advert closes on Wednesday 22 Jan 2025