Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 813-165-1223-LR-G
- Employer
- Medway Community Healthcare CIC
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Snapdragon Children's Centre
- Town
- Medway
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Learning disability nurse - children
Band 6
Do you want to be part of an award winning and dynamic social enterprise that:
- is renowned for providing high quality care and is ranked ‘Good’ by the CQC;
- is a for-better-profit organisation, reinvesting any surplus back into our health and care services and our local community;
- is friendly, ambitious, welcomes innovation and rewards excellence;
- offers superior benefits; everything you get in the NHS and more;
- and whose achievements reflect the passion, dedication and commitment demonstrated by our staff across all services?
Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant, community interest company that benefits the communities we serve. So if you want be a part of this, we would love to hear from you.
Job overview
- Are you a registered learning disability nurse, who wants to join a progressive, enthusiastic and multi skilled team who support children, young people and their families living in Medway?
- Do you have excellent communication skills and the ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with service users and partner agencies?
- Are you passionate about using your specialist skills to support children to have the best opportunity to learn and thrive?
If you answered yes, we’ve got the perfect role for you!
Main duties of the job
We will provide you the opportunity to :
- Manage a caseload of children and young people with a learning disability who require support and intervention in both specialist and mainstream schools
- Facilitate and deliver a range of assessments and brief interventions, working both independently and as part of a multi-agency team
- Work in partnership with specialist services to build progressive care pathways and improve health outcomes for children and young people
- Work in a variety of settings including schools, clinics and family homes
- Work flexibly and creatively to best engage and meet the diverse health needs of the school-aged population
- Participate in safeguarding as per local and national guidance
- Provide professional consultation to other professionals
Working for our organisation
So what else?
- This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused - you’ll even have the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder.
- We encourage staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development.
- We’ll provide well established, in-service training, one to one supervision, and appraisals with regular support.
- You’ll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.
- Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important work life balance is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement
The small print
- Informal visits can be arranged on request.
- We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the scottish widows group pension scheme.
- MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Communication and relationship skills
- Ability to work collaboratively within a team
- Ability to communicate effectively with children, families and other professionals
- Ability to effectively liaise with professionals and other agencies involved in the care of the child and family and maintain good working relationships
- Be caring and compassionate
- Non-Judgemental
- Knowledge, training and experience
- Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse
- Experience of working with/providing care to children with learning disabilities and/or complex health needs in a variety of settings
- Ability to work on own initiative and manage a caseload
- Knowledge of confidentiality
- Understanding of sleep/behaviour/continence difficulties experienced by children
- Experience of working in school and healthcare settings (desirable)
- IT skills
- Analytical and judgement skills
- Make decisions and judgements relating to patient care following assessment
- Demonstrate leadership skills
- Recognition and escalation of risk
- Understand need for evidence and statistical data collection and achieving KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
- Ability to analyse, evaluate and rationalise data and enable progressive models of delivery and intervention
- Planning and organisational skills
- Ability to organise and manage a caseload
- Ability to make decisions within sphere of the role, seeking support as needed
- Ability to coordinate multiple tasks
- Work under pressure and be able to manage changing priorities
- Physical skills
- IT skills
- Ability to travel around Medway to a variety of settings including schools/clinics/family homes
- Presentation skills
- Responsibility for patient / client care
- To plan care based on a holistic assessment
- To provide care to children & families with learning disabilities and/or complex health needs in a variety of settings
- To participate in and support qualified team members in health promotion activities and/or social prescribing
- To liaise with children and families; other professionals to ensure effective communication of care
- Safeguard the client group by adhering to child and adult guidelines and procedures; this may involve managing situations where conflicting opinions are expressed
- Actively participate in and support the development of evidence based practice and clinical
- audit in collaboration with lead professionals and managers
- Responsibility for policy and service development implementation
- To follow organisational policies, procedures, processes and requirements, relevant to the role and comment on suggested changes where appropriate
- Work in partnership with specialist services to build progressive care pathways and improve health outcomes for children and young people
- Ability to take on the role of link nurse for appropriate subject, ensuring audits are completed and results/actions plans are disseminated
- Responsibilities for human resources (HR)
- Maintain professional registration by adhering to NMC requirements
- Participate in regular supervision
- Participate in the organisations’ appraisal programme which includes the ability to monitor and report back on objectives and identify training needs
- To attend and participate in staff meetings and in-service training programmes
- To follow organisational policies, procedures, processes and requirements
- Responsibilities for information resources
- Accurately record, monitor and report patients progress using the appropriate electronic notes system e.g. Rio and appropriate legislation
- Knowledge of confidentiality
- Responsibilities for research and development (R&D)
- Participate in quality initiatives and audits aimed at enhancing care and change
- Participate in the collection and reporting of data and statistics
- Actively participate in and support of evidence based practice and clinical audit in collaboration with managers and lead clinicians.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (RN)
- Registered Learning Disability Nurse
Desirable criteria
- Qualifications in sleep, continence or behaviour
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working with children with learning disabilities and/or complex health needs
- Community based experience
- Caseload management
- Partnership working
Desirable criteria
- Supporting CYP with behaviour/sleep/continence difficulties
- Working in schools
Special Knowledge/Expertise
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of current good practice relating to CYP with a LD
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of child development
MCH Values
Essential criteria
- Being caring and compassionate, quality and value and working in parthership
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Fiona McKenna
- Job title
- Clinical lead public health - schools
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07985315367
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