Positive Behaviour Support

4 days ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is a rare opportunity to join our friendly Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. Our team is a large well established and supportive multi-disciplinary team offering holistic health care support to children and adults who have a learning disability living in North Tyneside.

We are looking for staff who are passionate about working within a multidisciplinary team to provide support, safe medication reviews in line with STOMP (stopping over medication of people with a learning disability and autism with psychotropic medicines). This national programme aims to address concerns about the use of psychotropic medications by providing information about non-pharmacological interventions and practical ways of supporting people with Learning Disabilities and Autism to reduce the amount of medication they need and ensuring that health professionals involve people, their families and support staff in decisions about medications.

In North Tyneside, CLDT is part of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. It is a multi-disciplinary team managed along with services provided by the Local Authority.

Building on the current CLDT enhanced community services provision, this post within STOMP will facilitate and offer assessment, intervention, and training to ensure adults who have a learning disability, complex behavioural and mental health needs, stay well and have a good quality of life.

This post involves supporting nurses with a range of clinical activities including: monitoring service users behaviour, physical health and mental health. In addition carry out assessments,interventions and managing risk in the community.
- Implementation of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) plans to provide support to patients, carers and care providers to reduce or prevent challenging behaviour.
- Offer in-reach and outreach support and implement timely interventions when there is deterioration in a service user's condition. By working with staff and the service user within their home support is offered through assessment, interventions and practical hands-on support.
- Carry out observations to inform care and PBS planning.
- Perform physical health observations (i.e. height, weight, Blood Pressure).
- Facilitate health promotion.
- Supporting qualified staff with the STOMP caseload.



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