Job Introduction
The post holder will assist in the development of the Children’s Community Learning Disability Health Service (Wiltshire) to provide a flexible service to children and young people with Learning Disabilities. To work in partnership with a range of professionals, parents, carers, statutory and voluntary agencies.
You will participate in the assessment and health care planning for children and families in a variety of settings across Wiltshire, including home, educational settings, and health premises.
Base
You will be based at the closest hub to your home address. The post is Wiltshire Wide, we have a hub In Salisbury SP4 6AT, Trowbridge BA14 0XG and Chippenham SN15 1BN
Main Responsibility
- Managing an allocated caseload of children and young people with learning disabilities.
- Organise own workload without direct supervision.
- Maintain and promote quality care and assist children, young people and their families to be supported throughout their care, whilst promoting independence and protecting choice, dignity, privacy and safety.
- Maintain accurate records and timely interventions for a caseload of children.
- Undertake delegated tasks, with or without direct supervision, according to level of skill, and competence.
- At all times keep the safety of the child and young person in mind and work within local safeguarding policies as appropriate.
- Liaise with a wide range of multi-agency professionals spending time in pre-schools, children’s centres, schools and short break settings, to support a child or young person.
- Provide specialist health advice and interventions to children and young people, their families and carers ensuring access to health care.
- Develop and implement evidence based nursing care plans, signpost/refer to other health professionals as appropriate and evaluate planned care.
- Provide advice, support and training to develop other services to enhance the health needs of children and young people with a learning disability.
- Maintain competencies and work in accordance with the Nursing & Midwifery Councils (NMC), Code of Professional Conduct and maintaining a professional portfolio.
- Work in partnership with the child or young person and their family or carers to develop individualised care plans and ensure the voice of the child is heard.
- Enable and empower the family and carer to meet the health needs of the child or young person with significant and complex behaviours.
- Promote and develop a healthy lifestyle via health education for the child or young person with a learning disability and their families/carers.
- Utilise a range of communication skills to ensure that children and young people with learning disabilities understand their health needs.
- Respond to the needs of the service quickly and effectively, without the immediate supervision of the line manager.
- Ensure practice us up to date, effective and evidenced, participating in and providing clinical supervision in line with current policy.
- Participate in the monitoring and evaluation of service quality through audit and research as required.
- Concentrate for long periods of time on complex and demanding tasks.
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
- Registered Learning Disability Nurse NMC Registration.
- Post graduate diploma or equivalent knowledge or experience.
- Teaching and assessing in clinical practice qualification.
- Be able to travel to meet the needs of your caseload.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Community experience of working with children and young people with learning disabilities.
- Experience of working with safeguarding issues.
- Case management experience.
- Evidence of innovative and flexible approach to care and the organisation of care.
- To be able to work flexibly and sensitively.
- To possess a wide range of communication skills.
- Competence and experience in care planning.
- Competence in IT / System One / Excel and Word
- To understand positive mental health, behaviour support, sexualised behaviour, independent skills, sleep, toilet training and transition needs for children and young people with learning disabilities.
Desirable
- 2-3 years post reg experience
- Post Graduate Community Qualification
- First Level Degree or Equivalent
- Experience of leading a team
Package Description
As a Learning Disability Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team in our Community Children’s Learning Disability Health Service.
You will feel valued as a Learning Disability Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £35,392 - £42,618 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day 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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