Job summary
We hope that you will join us as our Lead Community Learning Disability Nurse, supporting the development of the new Intensive Therapeutic Short Break Service across the Pennine Care footprint.
This is a senior leadership role for a community learning disability nurse. The postholder will form part of this new multiagency team consisting of clinical psychology, learning disability nursing, speech therapy, occupational therapy and support workers. The Intensive Therapeutic Short Break Service sits alongside the Community Learning Disability and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services across the footprint, consisting of community learning disability nursing, clinical psychology and psychiatry.
This is a role that will truly enable you to make a system wide difference to children with severe learning disabilities and complex needs. Work with us and put your passion into practice.
Main duties of the job
The team will be working with a small number of children and young people who have severe learning disabilities and who have been identified as having complex needs including autism and/or behaviour that challenges, that require intensive support. Working alongside the local respite and short breaks services, the Intensive Therapeutic Short Break Service will work together to create, instigate and support person centred positive behaviour support plans with the aim of improving the quality of life for this group of children and young people and reduce any restrictions or restraints (in accordance with NICE guidance).
This is a chance to be involved in helping to deliver a service based on the principles of the Ealing Model, including positive behavioural support and trauma informed interventions, whilst drawing on your knowledge and expertise of the needs of this population. It is an exciting and transformational project. You will support the consultant lead with the mobilisation of this model across our five localities, linking to the dynamic risk register and working alongside families.
Please take a look at the full Job Description and Person Specification which gives full details of main duties
About us
This is a role that will truly enable you to make a system wide difference to children with severe learning disabilities and complex needs. Work with us and put your passion into practice. Please refer to the JD /PS for full details about the role
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a role that will truly enable you to make a system wide difference to children with severe learning disabilities and complex needs. Work with us and put your passion into practice. Please refer to the JD /PS for full details about the role
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a role that will truly enable you to make a system wide difference to children with severe learning disabilities and complex needs. Work with us and put your passion into practice. Please refer to the JD /PS for full details about the role
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Learning Disability Nurse (RNLD)
- Positive Behaviour Support training
- Further short courses and experience to Masters Level
Experience
Essential
- Considerable experience of working with children with severe and complex disabilities; including Autism; and their families
- Experience of designing and developing PBS support plans with children with learning disabilities and their families/carers
- Experience of embedding PBS plans into wider multiagency network
- Considerable experience managing risk in children with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour and working with complex multiagency cases
- Experience of facilitating therapeutic groups
- Knowledge and experience of working within a Safeguarding Currently in a leadership role Significant supervisory experience of junior learning disability nurses Experience of service representation Experience of devising and delivering training around PBS Experience of human resource issues e.g., management supervision ? Application Form ? Interview AFC 29/6/22 JME-113-22 Lead Learning Disability Nurse Band 8a Children framework
- Experience of service representation and ability to represent learning disability nursing
- Experience of f leadership, management and/or clinical supervision
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of nursing process/models; particularly behavioural analysis and intervention and their application in field of community learning disability work with children and families
- Knowledge and implementation of paediatric health promotion
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to lead on in-house service development
- Ability to lead groups and chair multiagency forum
- Ability to work as a member of a multi disciplinary team and take a lead role in that team on individual projects as directed (eg ? Application Form ? Interview AFC 29/6/22 JME-113-22 Lead Learning Disability Nurse Band 8a development of new intervention/way of working for team)
- Risk assessment and management skills
- Experience of developing and delivering training
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Learning Disability Nurse (RNLD)
- Positive Behaviour Support training
- Further short courses and experience to Masters Level
Experience
Essential
- Considerable experience of working with children with severe and complex disabilities; including Autism; and their families
- Experience of designing and developing PBS support plans with children with learning disabilities and their families/carers
- Experience of embedding PBS plans into wider multiagency network
- Considerable experience managing risk in children with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour and working with complex multiagency cases
- Experience of facilitating therapeutic groups
- Knowledge and experience of working within a Safeguarding Currently in a leadership role Significant supervisory experience of junior learning disability nurses Experience of service representation Experience of devising and delivering training around PBS Experience of human resource issues e.g., management supervision ? Application Form ? Interview AFC 29/6/22 JME-113-22 Lead Learning Disability Nurse Band 8a Children framework
- Experience of service representation and ability to represent learning disability nursing
- Experience of f leadership, management and/or clinical supervision
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of nursing process/models; particularly behavioural analysis and intervention and their application in field of community learning disability work with children and families
- Knowledge and implementation of paediatric health promotion
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to lead on in-house service development
- Ability to lead groups and chair multiagency forum
- Ability to work as a member of a multi disciplinary team and take a lead role in that team on individual projects as directed (eg ? Application Form ? Interview AFC 29/6/22 JME-113-22 Lead Learning Disability Nurse Band 8a development of new intervention/way of working for team)
- Risk assessment and management skills
- Experience of developing and delivering training
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.
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).
Additional information
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).
