Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Starfish Learning Disability Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (LD-CAMHS) as a Specialist Children's Learning Disability Nurse (0.6 WTE).
We are a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Clinical Psychologists, Psychological Therapy Practitioners, Lead and Specialist Children's Learning Disability Nurses, Specialist Nurse Prescribers, Specialist Family Support Workers, Speech & Language Therapists, Occupational Therapist, a Therapy Assistant Practitioner and a Clinical Coordinator.
We work across the beautiful county of Norfolk to deliver assessment and intervention for school-aged children/young people (CYP) who have a diagnosed learning disability and who are experiencing significant behavioural and/or mental health difficulties.
We work with the CYP and their families as well as with other professionals involved such as schools, social workers, short breaks providers to understand their strengths and difficulties to help support them to thrive.
We welcome applications from candidates who are enthusiastic, motivated, and passionate about working with CYP and their families.
The role is mainly community based and will therefore involve seeing children at home, in their schools / nurseries, respite, and occasionally in clinic.
The team cover a large area, so it is essential that you can drive and have access to a vehicle.
Main duties of the job
You will have extensive experience of working with children and young people and/or in learning disability or mental health. You will be able to demonstrate excellent communication and time management skills.
You will be passionate and enthusiastic in your approach to service delivery and committed to improving the lives of children and young people.
You will manage a complex clinical caseload. You will be an excellent problem solver and be able to give advice and recommendations to families and other professionals alike.
You will be expected to use a range of assessment skills, interviews with parents and carers, and observations in a range of settings, to inform the assessment and diagnostic process as well as the planning and provision of interventions.
There will be opportunities to contribute to the supervision, teaching and training of other professionals within the team as well as students.
All staff have regular clinical and managerial supervision.
About us
Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
- To provide highly specialised support and advice to children and teenagers with significant learning disabilities, neurodevelopment disorders and their families.
- To provide clinical nursing services for children and young people under 18 years of age.
- To provide a range of clinical expertise and design appropriate interventions to meet the childs changing developmental needs.
- To be committed to implementing Every Child Matters principle.
- To supervise and manage junior staff, mentor new colleagues and student nurses.
- To undertake assessment and clinical interventions for children and young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems.
- To work within a multi-disciplinary team and lead on specialist area of care pathways such as ASD, ADHD & LD. The responsibilities include assessment, planning and implementation of care pathways for children within a specialist area.
- Running nurse led clinics, writing guidelines and auditing clinic sessions and ensuring communication between Consultant, GP and others as necessary.
- To participate in rolling programmes of parent education which can be delivered either into groups or individually, both in clinic settings and at home. The post holder will use a range of training approaches to meet individual needs and to overcome possible barriers to understanding.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Clinical
- Use highly developed effective communication skills based on valuing others, recognising own and others strengths and differences.
- Ability to utilise an enabling and therapeutic approach with children and young people together with their families and carers.
- 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 principles.
- Monitor and evaluate care against agreed outcome measures.
- Effectively plan and manage group work activities with colleagues.
- Ensure that care offered to children/young people is safe and needs focussed, drawing on current evidence based best practice.
- Use effective and standardised assessment tools.
- 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.
- Be sensitive to and validatory of social and cultural difference whilst maintaining the primacy of safeguarding principles.
- Keep timely, concise and accurate records, maintaining confidentiality.
- Carry caseload as allocated by Integrated Team Leader, developing individualised nursing care plans.
- Lead or participate in individual or group work with children and young people, adapting resource packages to meet specific needs.
- Exercise clinical judgement, soundly grounded and evidence based, supported by effective case supervision.
- Engage in play with children and young people.
- Applying evidence-based nursing knowledge to specific situations.
- Adapting standardised methodology to meet individual need, carefully analysing situations that arise in light of previous experience and best practice.
- Exercising 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 on a regular basis.
- To participate in regular reviews of cases and attend case discussions, conferences and reviews as appropriate, including safeguarding core groups and the conference process.
Professional
- Identify and request sufficient time to continue professional development.
- Actively engage in monthly peer support meetings.
- Keep up to date regarding current practice and policy developments.
- Participate in research as allocated by the Integrated Team Leader/Clinical Pathway Lead following NCH&C guidelines and policies.
Organisational
- Collaborative working with inter-disciplinary and multi-agency partners.
- Manage diary effectively to maximise clinical/development/travelling time to cover large mixed rural and urban populations.
- Report workload pressures appropriately.
- Supervise and manage junior members of staff including PDR and capability processes.
- Be aware of and responsive to, issues of potential and actual risk that may arise in carrying out care, reporting promptly using recognised NCH&C systems.
- Participate in service development work as directed by Integrated Team Leader utilising own strengths and areas of professional interest/specialism.
- Input client data as required on current IT system.
- Maintain security and confidentiality of information acquired, stored and sent within local and national guidelines
- Regularly visit children and their carers at home and may frequently be lone workers.
- The post holder may use VDU equipment for at least an hour daily.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
- To provide highly specialised support and advice to children and teenagers with significant learning disabilities, neurodevelopment disorders and their families.
- To provide clinical nursing services for children and young people under 18 years of age.
- To provide a range of clinical expertise and design appropriate interventions to meet the childs changing developmental needs.
- To be committed to implementing Every Child Matters principle.
- To supervise and manage junior staff, mentor new colleagues and student nurses.
- To undertake assessment and clinical interventions for children and young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems.
- To work within a multi-disciplinary team and lead on specialist area of care pathways such as ASD, ADHD & LD. The responsibilities include assessment, planning and implementation of care pathways for children within a specialist area.
- Running nurse led clinics, writing guidelines and auditing clinic sessions and ensuring communication between Consultant, GP and others as necessary.
- To participate in rolling programmes of parent education which can be delivered either into groups or individually, both in clinic settings and at home. The post holder will use a range of training approaches to meet individual needs and to overcome possible barriers to understanding.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Clinical
- Use highly developed effective communication skills based on valuing others, recognising own and others strengths and differences.
- Ability to utilise an enabling and therapeutic approach with children and young people together with their families and carers.
- 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 principles.
- Monitor and evaluate care against agreed outcome measures.
- Effectively plan and manage group work activities with colleagues.
- Ensure that care offered to children/young people is safe and needs focussed, drawing on current evidence based best practice.
- Use effective and standardised assessment tools.
- 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.
- Be sensitive to and validatory of social and cultural difference whilst maintaining the primacy of safeguarding principles.
- Keep timely, concise and accurate records, maintaining confidentiality.
- Carry caseload as allocated by Integrated Team Leader, developing individualised nursing care plans.
- Lead or participate in individual or group work with children and young people, adapting resource packages to meet specific needs.
- Exercise clinical judgement, soundly grounded and evidence based, supported by effective case supervision.
- Engage in play with children and young people.
- Applying evidence-based nursing knowledge to specific situations.
- Adapting standardised methodology to meet individual need, carefully analysing situations that arise in light of previous experience and best practice.
- Exercising 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 on a regular basis.
- To participate in regular reviews of cases and attend case discussions, conferences and reviews as appropriate, including safeguarding core groups and the conference process.
Professional
- Identify and request sufficient time to continue professional development.
- Actively engage in monthly peer support meetings.
- Keep up to date regarding current practice and policy developments.
- Participate in research as allocated by the Integrated Team Leader/Clinical Pathway Lead following NCH&C guidelines and policies.
Organisational
- Collaborative working with inter-disciplinary and multi-agency partners.
- Manage diary effectively to maximise clinical/development/travelling time to cover large mixed rural and urban populations.
- Report workload pressures appropriately.
- Supervise and manage junior members of staff including PDR and capability processes.
- Be aware of and responsive to, issues of potential and actual risk that may arise in carrying out care, reporting promptly using recognised NCH&C systems.
- Participate in service development work as directed by Integrated Team Leader utilising own strengths and areas of professional interest/specialism.
- Input client data as required on current IT system.
- Maintain security and confidentiality of information acquired, stored and sent within local and national guidelines
- Regularly visit children and their carers at home and may frequently be lone workers.
- The post holder may use VDU equipment for at least an hour daily.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RNLD/RN/RMHN - Diploma level
- ENB 998
- LSCB Core Module
- Norfolk Steps
- Additional specialist knowledge and expertise (equivalent to diploma level) in ADHD/ASD/LD
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working with children who have learning disabilities and their families
- Substantial experience of collaborative multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
Desirable
- Community Learning Disability Nursing
- Participation in group work.
Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
Essential
- Established Named Nurse skills
- Evidence based and outcome led nursing practice
- Sensitivity to and understanding of the individual needs of children and their families
- Effective use of information technology.
- Extensive knowledge of the emotional, psychological, developmental and social needs of children and young people with learning disabilities.
- Proven ability to apply evidence based clinical interventions.
- Ability to evaluate clinical effectiveness.
- Understanding of non-verbal communication systems and their use with children and young people.
- Accurate, timely and concise recording
- Thorough understanding of the Common Assessment Framework.
- Ability to work in partnership with others.
Desirable
- Knowledge of local statutory and non-statutory resources available for this particular group.
- Good working knowledge of Sign-a-long, PECS/ Widget
- Holder of identified caseload.
- Participation in group work.
- Individualised enabling direct work with children/young people.
- Webster Stratton
- Theraplay
Communication
Essential
- Able to speak and understand English Language
- Able to communicate on all levels with children/young people/parents/carers and other professionals.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Good presentation skills
- Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Personal Attributes / Behaviours
Essential
- Able to supervise junior staff
- Able to deliver parent training with other colleagues
- Able to identify with Trusts commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
- Value diversity
- Must Hold full and valid UK driving licence and have use of a vehicle
Desirable
- Line management responsibilities
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RNLD/RN/RMHN - Diploma level
- ENB 998
- LSCB Core Module
- Norfolk Steps
- Additional specialist knowledge and expertise (equivalent to diploma level) in ADHD/ASD/LD
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience of working with children who have learning disabilities and their families
- Substantial experience of collaborative multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
Desirable
- Community Learning Disability Nursing
- Participation in group work.
Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
Essential
- Established Named Nurse skills
- Evidence based and outcome led nursing practice
- Sensitivity to and understanding of the individual needs of children and their families
- Effective use of information technology.
- Extensive knowledge of the emotional, psychological, developmental and social needs of children and young people with learning disabilities.
- Proven ability to apply evidence based clinical interventions.
- Ability to evaluate clinical effectiveness.
- Understanding of non-verbal communication systems and their use with children and young people.
- Accurate, timely and concise recording
- Thorough understanding of the Common Assessment Framework.
- Ability to work in partnership with others.
Desirable
- Knowledge of local statutory and non-statutory resources available for this particular group.
- Good working knowledge of Sign-a-long, PECS/ Widget
- Holder of identified caseload.
- Participation in group work.
- Individualised enabling direct work with children/young people.
- Webster Stratton
- Theraplay
Communication
Essential
- Able to speak and understand English Language
- Able to communicate on all levels with children/young people/parents/carers and other professionals.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Good presentation skills
- Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Personal Attributes / Behaviours
Essential
- Able to supervise junior staff
- Able to deliver parent training with other colleagues
- Able to identify with Trusts commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
- Value diversity
- Must Hold full and valid UK driving licence and have use of a vehicle
Desirable
- Line management responsibilities
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).
