Enhanced Support Specialist Practitioner

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 23 January 2026

The post holder will work in close collaboration with other professionals, including the wider Multi‑Disciplinary Team (Nursing, Psychiatry, Psychology, Allied Health Professionals and Arts Therapies) in assessing service user needs, devising care plans and evaluating outcomes that promote service user empowerment. The post holder, with the wider Multi‑Disciplinary Team, will provide high‑quality, individualized care, addressing the needs of the service users and meeting individual health needs.

• Actively support people with a learning disability in a variety of settings to improve their physical, mental and emotional health, delivered through person‑centred assessment and treatment and evaluated for goal achievement.
• Improve the lives of people with a learning disability by minimizing the impact of their condition through the delivery of excellent services to promote recovery and wellbeing.
• Be professionally accountable and responsible for patient care, undertaking a range of clinical/therapeutic interventions in hospital or patients' homes and other community settings.
• Act as lead professional or care co‑ordinator as appropriate.
• Facilitate others in the team to develop competence by providing leadership, day‑to‑day supervision, clinical advice and supervision to associate practitioners, healthcare assistants and students as appropriate.
• Advocate for and promote a positive image of people with a learning disability.
• Provide advice on reasonable adjustments to primary and secondary healthcare services.
• Promote the inclusion of people with learning disabilities into mainstream services, through health facilitation, education and training of key personnel.
• Ensure statutory requirements of the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act are observed and applied.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organization with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming, Kind, Positive, Respectful, Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

• Work collaboratively with service users, carers and families to deliver nursing assessment and then plan, implement and evaluate identified interventions, with a view to improving physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.
• Carry out clinical nursing procedures/techniques where required, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
• Implement and promote evidence‑based clinical processes and standards of practice across the service area.
• Promote and assist the completion of health action plans.
• Facilitate individual therapeutic sessions to achieve identified health outcomes for service users in accordance with assessed needs.
• Develop and review a range of comprehensive and evidence‑based clinical risk assessments and associated care plans, ensuring these plans have meaningful service‑user, carer and interdisciplinary involvement throughout the process.
• Provide written reports as necessary for service‑user reviews.
• Ensure the administration and safe custody of drugs and…