Child Community Learning Disability Nurse MHN
PENNINE CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, Radcliffe, Bury
Child Community Learning Disability Nurse MHN
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PENNINE CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, Radcliffe, Bury
- Full time
- Temporary
- Onsite working
Posted 5 days ago, 28 Jan | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: ed4c7718b86c4fb7b03b205af6b0e3ef
Full Job Description
We have an exciting opportunity for a fixed term, Band 6 Community Learning Disability/Mental Health Nurse role, in the Trust-wide Young People's Specialist Support Team.
This multiagency team consists of clinical psychology, learning disability nursing, speech therapy, occupational therapy and support workers. The Team sits alongside CCLDT and CAMHS, and works as a step up service beyond local community provision.
The Team work with a small number of young people with severe learning disabilities and/or autistic young people with complex needs including behaviours of concern, whom require intensive support. Working alongside local respite and short breaks services, the Team work to understand the young person, their interests, strengths and needs, to create, instigate and support person-centred positive behaviour support plans to improve quality of life and reduce restrictions and restraint.
This is a chance to help to deliver a service based on the principles of the Ealing Model, including positive behavioural support and trauma informed interventions. You will support the Team with the continued mobilisation of this model across our five localities, linking to the dynamic risk register and working alongside families.
This is a role that will truly enable you to make a system wide difference to children with severe learning disabilities and/or autistic young people with complex needs. Work with us and put your passion into practice.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will form part of a multidisciplinary team consisting of clinical psychology, learning disability nursing, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and support workers.
The post holder is responsible for providing nursing assessment, diagnosis and behavioural treatment for children with learning disabilities and complex needs (including autism, behaviours of concern, and other long term conditions) in a variety of settings including special schools, the child or young person's home and community clinics., + To ensure high quality functional assessment of young people and families referred to the YPSST
+ To provide access to a range of quality interventions in accordance with individual assessed need and in line with a person-centred, positive behavioural support approach. This will include assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of a variety of approaches as part of the MDT.
+ Assessments may be face to face or virtual and must show appropriate consideration of medical, cognitive, psychological, social, environmental, and cultural factors
+ To be able to undertake clinical interviews with children, young people and their families or carers in order to gain a holistic person-centred understanding of the young person's experience and needs, quality of life, environment and aspirations.
+ Manage a caseload, offering a range of clinical assessment and evidence based behavioural interventions to meet the needs of children and young people with learning disabilities and complex needs, under supervision.
+ To undertake analyses of behaviour, interpreting and integrating data from a variety of sources, including observations, self report measures and questionnaires.
+ To formulate cases as part of the MDT based on an appropriate assessment to inform the Positive Behaviour Support plan.
+ To co-create person centred Positive Behaviour Support plans with the team around the child or young person, taking the lead in some plans and having a supporting role in others as needed. The plans need to explicitly draw out how the environment may need to change to support the young person and how their quality of life is going to be improved through implementation of the plan. The plans need to incorporate proactive as well as reactive strategies and explicitly address restraint and restriction.
+ To take responsibility for communicating with the referrer, young person and family and other agencies involved as required.
+ To undertake liaison and joint work with other professionals outside of the team
+ To provide training, advice, and consultation to staff from health and other agencies in areas relevant to direct clinical work and service provision
+ To routinely monitor the effectiveness of clinical work through use of Routine Outcome Measures (ROMs) and Patient Stories, reformulating and update plans as necessary and ensuring this is communicated to all parties involved.
+ To recognise barriers to change and act on these as appropriate.
+ To engage in managerial and clinical supervision and deliver clinical supervision (as appropriate) to more junior nursing staff.
+ Ensuring collection of relevant information required by Pennine Care Foundation Trust
+ To deliver difficult, highly sensitive or contentious information to families, carers and professionals, making adjustments where there are barriers to communication and understanding
+ To independently assess risk and create risk management plans as required.
+ To be responsible for following step up and step down procedures around PBS plans with the Specialist Community Service for Learning Disabilities and Autism as required.
+ This role will require the postholder to work across quadrants 3 and 4 of Thrive including risk management.
Hints and tips for completing your application can be found here.
Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.
What happens after your application has been received?
You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting via email. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. Interview invites will be sent out via email.
What happens if I am offered the position after interview?
The hiring manager will make contact with you to verbally offer you the position. The hiring manager will then inform Recruitment of the decision and provide relevant paperwork. You will be sent a formal conditional offer via email.
What pre-employment checks will I need to complete?
By conducting pre-employment checks, the recruitment team will verify that you meet the pre-conditions of the role you have been offered. Pre-employment checks will be carried out according to NHS Employment Check Standards. The checks are:
+ Identity verification
+ Right to work check
+ Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role)
+ Professional registration and/or qualification check
+ Occupational health assessment
+ Employment history and reference validation
All applicants external to NHS will be required to provide HMRC employment history to cover the most recent three years. This information will used to validate employment history and references as part of pre-employment checks.
If you are offer a position with is and you require sponsorship to support your right to work, we will review your eligibility in line with government guidance. If the role you have been offer is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not able to evidence your right to work, your conditional offer could be withdrawn.
What happens when pre-employment checks are complete?
Recruitment will liaise with you and the hiring manager to arrange a start date for your new position. You will then be booked on to a Trust Welcome Session and be sent your Pennine Care NHS Terms and Conditions.
Other important information
+ We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
+ If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post.
+ If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application.
+ Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges.
+ We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our hiring managers directly.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. To ensure you application is considered, please submit at the earliest opportunity.
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
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 #PennineCarePeople and 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
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