Team Leader for Children's Learning Disability Team (Tameside)

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., 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.

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.

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