Community Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Practitioner to join our new Intensive Support Team (IST) working alongside the Community Autism and Learning Disability (Needs Led) Service. The expectation of the Intensive Support Team will be to: support people who present with behaviours that challenge the system, work with people with complex mental health presentation who are not able to be supported within community mental health teams due to their needs related to their learning disabilities and/or autism, and work with the person in their own residence, reducing/preventing the need for the use of restrictive practices, inpatient services and out-of-area/residential placements. Provide support 7 days per week with core hours of 8am to 8pm with flexibility to deliver care outside of these hours, dependant on service user need. The service will be integrated at a local level across all relevant services and provide psychological and psychiatric person-centred interventions for people accessing either the specialist learning disabilities team, or the enhanced primary care service. The team is intrinsically linked with the dynamic support register and offers support over the 7-day period and aims to proactively target people with autism and / or learning disability, who are most at risk of unplanned mental health admissions due to mental illness or behavioural presentation.