Job summary
The Multi-disciplinary team at both Telford and Wrekin and Shropshire Child Development Centres create a supportive environment for parents and carers, ensuring that they remain central to the assessment process by sharing information and expressing concerns about their child's early development.
We are seeking to offer an opportunity to education, social care or health practitioners who can demonstrate their abilities and expertise in working collaboratively with families and can confidently track a child's development through thorough observations, reporting these back to both families and a range of professionals.
Applicants should possess a solid understanding and practical experience of supporting young children with physical, health or developmental needs including Autism.
We are interested to hear from applicants who can work well as a part of a team but can also work alone when necessary. You should have the ability to communicate with a variety of professionals and should be able to communicate information sensitively and effectively to parents and carers to build trusting relationships and provide support.
The successful applicants will have significant experience of delivering education, social care or health services and like us will have a focus on listening to the voice of young children and their families.
The AHP support worker competency, education and career framework will support you in your development within this role.
Main duties of the job
- To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, in the assessment, treatment and support of children with special needs and their families, providing a safe, stimulating environment in a variety of locations.
- To undertake standardised development assessments e.g. Schedule of Growing Skills (SOGS) as requested by Community Paediatricians and/or in accordance with under 5 assessment pathways.
- To deliver planned programmes of therapy to individuals and groups of children with special needs using own initiative, working under the direction of but unsupervised by medics, therapists and educationalists.
- In some areas of work, the post holder is required to work under the direction of, but unsupervised by professionals. The person will work in a multidisciplinary environment with regular contact with professionals from education and social care.
- The post holder will work in a variety of locations - home, school, nurseries, children centres and will communicate with a wide range of people.
- The post holder will work with children with a range of additional needs/ learning disabilities.
- The post holder will need to adapt practices to meet individual patients' circumstances e.g. cultural/linguistic practices.
About us
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further information of this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further information of this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- National Nursery Examination Board (NNEB) Diploma in Nursery Nursing or Level 3 BTEC/CACHE in Child Care & Education (Early Years) or an equivalent qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with children/young people with additional needs
- Experience in managing the behaviour of children with Special Needs
- Experience in enabling parents/carers/professionals to carry out tasks
- Experience in carrying out routine intervention on one to one, small group, large groups.
- Experience of accurate observation of children's communication/interaction with others - children and adults
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of child development
- Understanding, Knowledge and skills of behaviour support and management
- Knowledge of Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Skills in enabling active participation of the family in decision making
Personal Qualities
Essential
- High standard of written/verbal communication
- Able to communicate in a range of modes
- Excellent organisation skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Adaptable and flexible to working in a variety of environments
- Ability to work on own initiative, unsupervised within areas of delegated authority
- Problem solving skills to develop effective team working
- To actively engage in reflective practice
- Willingness to learn new skills to meet the needs of the children and their families. oTime management skills in managing own workload oTo have competent IT skills oTo have an interest in Speech and Language development and be willing to undertake training in this area.
- Time management skills in managing own workload
- To have competent IT skills
- To have an interest in Speech and Language development and be willing to undertake training in this area.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- National Nursery Examination Board (NNEB) Diploma in Nursery Nursing or Level 3 BTEC/CACHE in Child Care & Education (Early Years) or an equivalent qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with children/young people with additional needs
- Experience in managing the behaviour of children with Special Needs
- Experience in enabling parents/carers/professionals to carry out tasks
- Experience in carrying out routine intervention on one to one, small group, large groups.
- Experience of accurate observation of children's communication/interaction with others - children and adults
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of child development
- Understanding, Knowledge and skills of behaviour support and management
- Knowledge of Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Skills in enabling active participation of the family in decision making
Personal Qualities
Essential
- High standard of written/verbal communication
- Able to communicate in a range of modes
- Excellent organisation skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Adaptable and flexible to working in a variety of environments
- Ability to work on own initiative, unsupervised within areas of delegated authority
- Problem solving skills to develop effective team working
- To actively engage in reflective practice
- Willingness to learn new skills to meet the needs of the children and their families. oTime management skills in managing own workload oTo have competent IT skills oTo have an interest in Speech and Language development and be willing to undertake training in this area.
- Time management skills in managing own workload
- To have competent IT skills
- To have an interest in Speech and Language development and be willing to undertake training in this area.
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).
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).
