Band 4 Nursing Associate- Learning Disabilities Team

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Nurse Associate to join our small team of Learning Disability Nurses, nurse associates and trainee nurse associates within the wider Solihull Children's Community Nursing Service. This role involves close working with the children's community and special schools nursing teams and is a great opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, hard working Nurse Associate who is passionate about working with children with Moderate to Severe and profound Learning Disabilities and passionate about ensuring inclusion and accessibility to their local community.

The team provides a high quality service to children and their families concentrating on the following areas: continence, sleep hygiene, behaviour, health promotion and short breaks. You will support individual children and families, attend multidisciplinary meetings, safeguarding meetings and liaise closely with other professionals so excellent communication skills are essential.

This role is for 33 hours per week and is to be worked over 4-5 days. This service is open Monday to Friday, 9am -5pm. This is a community based role so daily access to your own vehicle is essential

Main duties of the job

Ideally you will have experience of working with Children and young people with Moderate to Severe and profound Learning Disabilities and experience in a community setting.

You will be expected to assess children in their home and educational settings, plan strategies in conjunction with children, young people and their parents/carers and support with the implementation of these. Evaluation will be required on an on-going basis and you will effectively manage your own active caseload with supervision from a trained Learning Disability Nurse.

You will be responsible for keeping all clinical and safeguarding records up to date and in line with NMC guidelines and responsible for maintaining high standards of care and practice.

The team undertakes workshops with groups of parents and children and young people and supports medical clinics within schools. You will contribute to the planning and delivery of these.

As a member of this team you will be supported with regular clinical supervision, appraisal and relevant team meetings.

If you have the relevant experience or are interested in widening your experience, would like to join a small, friendly and proactive team and are committed to improving the outcomes for children and their families then please apply.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Children’s Community Nursing

Third Floor, Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road

Solihull

West Midlands

B90 4BN

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Children’s Community Nursing

Third Floor, Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road

Solihull

West Midlands

B90 4BN

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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