We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Children's Community Learning Disability Team Leader to join our well established dynamic, forward thinking and friendly Children's Community Learning Disability Team.

The post is 30 hours per week you will be required to work flexibly over 5 week days (Monday-Friday).

You must be enthusiastic and motivated and have prior experience of working with children and young people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour.

Due to this being a community role, it is essential you have a full driving licence and access to a vehicle.

In return we can offer you clinical / peer supervision, support from the wider children's community nursing service, line management by the Children's Community LD Matron and opportunities to develop professionally.

Main duties of the job

The post will require working with children and families on an individual basis, managing a case load and delivering programmes of care.

The job would include the line management of the Learning Disability Team.

A range of community work will be undertaken, including specialist behavioural assessments to formulate interventions, strategies and positive behaviour support plans. The post holder will contribute and facilitate parent training programmes such as Riding the Rapids and Sleep Support.

The training of other professionals is also essential for this role.

The post holder will be required to work primarily in the family home, but also in other settings such as school / hospital.

Highly developed communication and problem solving skills are necessary, along with resilience and emotional intelligence to work in emotionally challenging situations. The ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines is essential. Good organisational skills, reporting skills and writing outcome focused care plans is required.

About us

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To provide a safe, responsive, efficient, timely, high quality evidence based nursing service to children and young people with learning disabilities, their families and carers.
• To be aware of, and participate in meeting the psychological, social, physical and spiritual needs of children and young people.
• Undertake a range of comprehensive assessments on children and young people with highly complex and challenging needs.
• Develop a range of person centred interventions and specialised care plans.
• To coordinate, monitor and evaluate highly complex interventions and packages of care.
• Respond appropriately and flexibly to unpredictable situations.
• To facilitate children and young peoples and their carers understanding of highly complex issues in relation to their needs, considering significant communication impairments and their level of understanding.
• Work in collaboration with other agencies to promote, identify and facilitate the use of reasonable adjustments to ensure health needs are met and health outcomes are optimised.
• To embrace public health role, promoting health and wellbeing and where possible, prevent ill health.
• To undertake screening and triage assessments for newly referred children and young people.
• Identify, manage and minimise risk

If successful, this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary.

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trusts policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

Person Specification

Education and qualifications

Essential

• RN LD/Child
• degree / diplomma / cpd relevant to role

Desirable

• Assessing / teaching qualification

Knowledge

Essential

• child and adult safeguarding procedures
• how disability impacts development / socialisation
• carrying out positive behaviour support planning, behavioural assessments
• Evidence based interventions- riding the rapids / Incredible years
• work sensitively with CYP families in challenging situations
• understanding confidentiality / informed consent

Desirable

• Complete complex behavioural assessments and plan interventions

Experience

Essential

• Post reg experience LD children/challenging behaviour
• Working with MDT
• Delivering training / presentations /
• Change management
• family centred approach to care

Desirable

• Post reg experience in community
• Delivering parent support training- ie riding the rapids and Incredible years
• Chair meetings

Skills and abilities

Essential

• Communication- negiotation and delivering bad news
• problem solving skills / decision making
• manage demands and work to deadlines
• mentor / coach junior staff / students
• leadership skills
• flexible working / autonomous practitioner

work related circumstances

Essential

• Team player
• Driving licence, access to vehicle

Employer details

Employer name

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Address

TreeHouse, Stepping Hill Hospital

Poplar Grove

Stockport

SK2 7JE

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362-A-24-6777372