Specialist Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• To advise and support the work of the SEND Specialist Support Services Team at Together for Children.
• To work with schools, parents, key practitioners and children / young people (CYP) with Autism in promoting and supporting the effective inclusion of CYP attending mainstream schools.
• To contribute towards the assessment of the individual needs of CYP with a diagnosis of Autism and SEMH needs.
• To provide support for CYP, teachers and the whole school as outlined below:

* Raising awareness to all staff of the strengths and difficulties of individual pupils with Autism.

* Assisting all staff to identify the needs of CYP with Autism to develop effect approaches to address their mental health and emotional wellbeing need

* Preparing and reviewing student targets as created by Autism Outreach Team (AOT).

* Modelling resources and equipment required to address students needs and support their participation in learning tasks and activities.

* Assisting with the planning and programming of specific transition activities.

* Using specialist knowledge to work with individual students and groups to support their understanding of mental health, physical health and emotional wellbeing and to support parents/ carers, school staff and other relevant stakeholders through delivering training packages and interventions

• The successful post holder will also work into CNTW Children & Young Peoples (CYPS) Sunderland team for part of this role providing formulation and clinical support as required, the post holder will receive regular clinical supervision from within CYPS.

Please find attached job description for full details.

Advertising date : 23rd September 2022

Closing date : 7th October2022

We welcome your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• First Level Qualification RMN/RMNH/RNLD or equivalent eg Social Worker, OT
• Mentorship qualification

Desirable

• Post registration qualification in psychological or relevant intervention

Experience

Essential

• Post registration clinical experience relevant to post
• Evidence post registration experience of working autonomously
• Experience of MDT working and working with families and carers

Desirable

• Experience of working within or alongside educational settings

Skills

Essential

• Demonstration of ability to carry out assessment of complex mental health needs
• Evidence of ability to maintain accurate patient records
• Experience of delivering training & presentations
• Experience of supervising and supporting peers and colleagues

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 UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

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. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

CNTW NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Autism Outreach Team, Bunnyhill Centre

Hilton Lane

Sunderland

SR5 4BW

Employer's website

https://www.cntw.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)