Job Introduction
Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of children and young people (CYP) and their families? We are looking for a dynamic and dedicated NMC registered Nurse or HCPC Registered Allied Health Professional to take the lead in shaping and developing the Neurodevelopmental Pathway Services children across B&NES and Wiltshire.
As a Band 7 Team Lead, you will have the opportunity to directly influence the ongoing clinical provision, working alongside an experienced team to deliver exceptional ADHD support and management. Your expertise will be central to improving the care and experiences of CYP and their families while fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
You will work under a dedicated Professional Lead for Neurodevelopmental Conditions and direct manage a team of talented ND practitioners.
Previous experience working in autism and neurodevelopmental services is vital.
This is a permanent role for 22.5 hours a week based at either our BaNES or Wiltshire hubs and there is some flexibility where home working can be accommodated.
This role requires travel across our localities so a driving license and access to a car for work purposes are essential criteria for this role.
Main Responsibility
As a Neurodevelopmental Pathway Team Lead you will:
- To provide support to the team via line management in line with the supervision policy
- To help plan, implement and measure ND pathway transformation
- To contribute and lead on appropriate workstreams of ND transformation
- To continue to hold a clinical caseload balanced with Team Leader responsibilities, using this clinical responsibility to model best practice and willingness to demonstrate adaption of new processes and ideas
- To work collaboratively with other colleagues in the neurodevelopmental pathway team to integrate services to maximise efficiency and optimise the experience of the service for CYP and their families
- To work therapeutically with children and young people (CYP) and their families to identify strengths and strategies for management at home and educational setting and support colleagues to do this
- To work closely with other teams in order to ensure effective care pathways and information sharing
- To work with colleagues in other teams to increase capacity by up-skilling
- To ensure care pathways are followed; flagging any variance required to support further development
- To keep clinical records in line with records keeping policy and support the team to do so.
- To ensure all safeguarding policies and SOPs are adhered to including ensuring access to supervision is kept as stipulated.
- To keep quality and safety training up to date and monitor this in the team
- To share information with ND colleagues in line with service plan
For a full list of responsibilities please see attached Job Description
The Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will have / will be:
- A registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional with significant experience of conducting autism assessments and neurodevelopmental conditions (autism and ADHD)
- Highly motivated and committed individual, with a solution focused approach
- Comfortable with ambiguity and supporting others through this
- Passion in improving the outcomes for CYP with autism and ADHD
- Experience of using strong leadership skills to support service development and transformation
- Able to evidence ability to plan and complete workplan in challenging situations
- Aware of recent national and professional guidance and evidence related to field of practice
- Experience of working in the community and across teams and services
- Able to confidently assess and prioritise using guidelines and protocols, and support colleagues in this
- Confident in professionally challenging colleagues
- Able to evidence recent CPD to validate professional practice
- Able to demonstrate a wide range of adaptable communication skills
- Ability to develop sustainable professional relationships both internally and externally
As this role requires travel across our localities, a Driving license and access to a vehicle for work purposes is required for this role
For a full list of criteria please see attached Job Description
Package Description
As a Neurodevelopmental Pathway Team Lead you will feel valued, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £46,148 - £52,809 Agenda for Change Band 7 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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