Children's Community Nurse LD

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

The closing date is 16 March 2025

Job summary

This is an opportunity for dedicated, enthusiastic nurses with experience of working with children with a neurodiverse profile who are looking to develop their career within our supportive and progressive Childrens Neurodiversity Community Team, based at Mid Yorkshire Teaching Trust.

You will be a key member of the multi-disciplinary community support team and manage a defined case load of children and their families within the neurodiversity service.

You will be a caring, compassionate individual who is committed to delivering high quality care and ensuring safe practice and a positive patient experience at all times.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a valued part of the Community childrens Neurodiversity Team and be expected to work within a multi professional framework, managing a defined case load of service users with Learning Disabilities, ADHD, ASD and other co-morbidities along with complex health needs.

You will require key worker co-ordination of complex cases and ensuring appropriate interventions are in place to support the needs of the service users and their families. This will include completing care planning and risk assessment to manage risks.

Whilst you will be expected to deliver training to families and care provider agencies surrounding challenging behaviour, neurodiverse diagnosis and physical health, you will receive exceptional support and supervision from this established team, working flexibly in varying locations and times to meet the needs of the service.

You will work alongside clients, families, support workers and professionals to enable others to better understand and respond to clients' behaviours that are challenging.

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over half a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Application guidance: We understand that more applicants are using AI technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. Its important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.

Date posted

18 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Pay is pro-rated for part time positions

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

C9377-FCS5058

Job locations

20-22 Bar Lane

Aberford Road

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF1 4DG

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post-holder will need to provide advice, instruction and complex information and will work closely with:

Children, young people and their families

Education services and others that the child and carers have contact with.

Use highly developed effective communication skills based on valuing others, recognising own and others strengths and differences.

The ability to utilise an enabling and therapeutic approach with children and young people together with their families and carers.

The ability to assess and plan enabling, and outcome focussed care interventions with children, young people, and their families/carers, drawing on previous nursing experience within an evidence based and theoretically grounded framework, utilising Every Child Matters principle.

Work in partnership with the Community Paediatric Team and in discussion with other services where appropriate and provide case management for young people and their families with ADHD/ASD/LD in line with the NMC and local guidelines.

To monitor and evaluate care against agreed outcome measures.

To effectively plan and manage group work activities with colleagues.

To ensure that care offered to children/young people is safe and needs focussed, drawing on current evidence based best practice.

To use effective and standardised assessment tools.

To practice in enabling and facilitative manner that aims high by drawing on strengths whilst recognising and working with stakeholders to minimise and overcome or adapt to environmental constraints.

To be sensitive to and validatory of, social and cultural difference whilst maintaining the primacy of safeguarding principles.

To keep timely, concise, and accurate records, maintaining confidentiality.

To carry caseload as allocated, developing individualised nursing care plans.

Be responsible for monitoring patient condition (physical and mental health), communicating change to other members of the team and giving guidance on treatment.

Nurse Led Clinics problem-solve, arrange follow up, plan care, and refer to appropriate agencies.

Maintain and attend various networks with other professional agencies and to act as a link between the clinic and other agencies.

To lead or participate in individual or group work with children and young people, adapting resource packages to meet specific needs.

To exercise clinical judgement, soundly grounded and evidence based, supported by effective case supervision and to apply evidence-based nursing knowledge to specific situations.

To adapt standardised methodology to meet individual need, carefully analysing situations that arise in light of previous experience and best practice.

To exercise sound clinical judgement with children, young people and families/carers who may have extensive needs but who have access to limited resources.

Person to person contact with children, young people, and their family/carers.

To participate in regular reviews of cases and attend case discussions, conferences, and reviews as appropriate, including safeguarding core groups and the conference process as appropriate.

Regularly meet and work effectively with Community Paediatricians and other services to discuss and plan patient care and to ensure continuity of care.

Provide advice, support and training to Health Visitors, School Nurses, Paediatric Occupational therapists, educational staff, clients, and carers for those children with ADHD/ASD/LD, behavioural difficulties which require management.

Promote the recognised needs of children and their families diagnosed with ADHD/ASD/LD to improve social inclusion

Lead and promote the ADHD/ASD/LD liaison nurse service and co-ordination in line with the needs of the CYP

Be cost effective in the use of resources

Work autonomously and to be accountable for own professional judgements and actions.

Evaluate and review practise on a regular basis and discuss in Clinical/Safeguarding Supervision when appropriate.

Accept responsibility for own professional development.

Adhere to National and Local Child Protection Procedures and Policies.

Support nursing practice development.

Develop and maintain support and after care of services for children and families where there is a diagnosis of ADHD/ASD/LD.

Monitor and evaluates standards of care

Attend staff meetings, training sessions and courses as required.

Flexibility in working will be required to meet the needs of this post.