Job summary
Pennine Care Learning Disability Care Hub are looking for an highly motivated, enthusiastic and skilled health professional to lead our children's specialist community learning disability team.
Working with colleagues from a range of service areas across the local system you will help embed our developing CYP pathway, while also providing expert leadership to the children's team.
The Learning Disability Care Hub provides opportunities for professional development across a broad range of service areas and clinical pathways. The successful candidate will have access to a support network of colleagues linked into our CYP and other special interest groups.
In addition to our commitment to your professional development we offer the opportunity for you to contribute to the evidence base for our services through research.
Working alongside new roles such as our peer support workers, we can offer you exposure to a range of multi-disciplinary working opportunities aligned to your own personal development plan.
Please give us a call to talk through this opportunity.
Main duties of the job
To lead Tameside children's community learning disability team. The post holder will provide specialist health and behaviour assessments to individuals referred to the Children's Learning Disability team.Interventions will be delivered across different settings including the person's home. There will be a requirement to liaise with parents, partners and stakeholders to ensure responsive, effective, safe and person centred services are delivered. The will involve service development across the Learning Disability Directorate and the supervision and management of staff in the Children's Learning Disability Team.Working within the Learning Disability Directorate of Pennine Care's Specialist Services Division the post holder will work in partnership to achieve positive healthoutcomes for children and young people with learning disabilities and the Learning Disability Directorate objectives. The individual will be an integral member of theChildren's Team, providing clinical nursing expertise to children referred to the team. The post holder will be responsible for providing supervision and the management of a defined caseload.
About us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a safe, responsive, efficient, timely, high quality communitynursing service to children and young people with learning disabilities theirfamilies and carers
To undertake a range of comprehensive assessments to children and youngpeople highly complex and challenging needs. This assessment workrequires a highly specialist knowledge base on which to practice
To develop a range of interventions and specialised care plans. To develop arange of person centred, specialist interventions to meet the needs of children and young people with a learning disability
To coordinate, monitor and evaluate highly complex interventions andpackages of care within a defined caseload
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a safe, responsive, efficient, timely, high quality communitynursing service to children and young people with learning disabilities theirfamilies and carers
To undertake a range of comprehensive assessments to children and youngpeople highly complex and challenging needs. This assessment workrequires a highly specialist knowledge base on which to practice
To develop a range of interventions and specialised care plans. To develop arange of person centred, specialist interventions to meet the needs of children and young people with a learning disability
To coordinate, monitor and evaluate highly complex interventions andpackages of care within a defined caseload
Person Specification
education and qulaification
Essential
- Social Work Degree or an equivalent recognised Social Work Qualification, e.g. , DipSW Or ? Registered Nurse Learning Disabilities or equivalent relevant professional qualification. OR Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
- Additional post registered degree in health related topic (eg, Behaviour Analysis, Epilepsy or Forensic Studies)
- Masters level training in health related topic or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Teaching qualification
- Management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Substantial community nursing experience in supporting people with highly complex & challenging needs
- Experienced in delivering a wide range of training & development opportunities
Skills
Essential
- Experience in completing comprehensive behavioural assessment & intervention
- Experience of providing supervision to qualified nurses
- Ability to manage competing demands and work to deadlines
- Highly developed communication skills to support a wide range of activities with the ability to negotiate at local level
Person Specification
education and qulaification
Essential
- Social Work Degree or an equivalent recognised Social Work Qualification, e.g. , DipSW Or ? Registered Nurse Learning Disabilities or equivalent relevant professional qualification. OR Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
- Additional post registered degree in health related topic (eg, Behaviour Analysis, Epilepsy or Forensic Studies)
- Masters level training in health related topic or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Teaching qualification
- Management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Substantial community nursing experience in supporting people with highly complex & challenging needs
- Experienced in delivering a wide range of training & development opportunities
Skills
Essential
- Experience in completing comprehensive behavioural assessment & intervention
- Experience of providing supervision to qualified nurses
- Ability to manage competing demands and work to deadlines
- Highly developed communication skills to support a wide range of activities with the ability to negotiate at local level
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
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).
