Job summary
Our Solihull Children's Learning Disability Nursing service is based at Friars Gate, one of UHB Trusts Solihull Community sites. We have an established Learning Disability Nursing service and work with children, young people and their families offering care and support in relation to moderate to severe learning disability. This service is integrated with the Solihull Children's Community Nursing Team and Solihull Special School Nursing Team and has a close working relationship with Solihull Community Paediatrics medical and therapy Services.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and compassionate learning disability nurse to support with the co-ordination, provision and progression of this service. We are part of a multi-professional team and pride ourselves in the positive outcomes we support children and young people to achieve.
This role requires a candidate who is confident and enthusiastic about supporting children with learning disabilities to maximise their potential and who can confidently and enthusiastically engage with and support parents. It may also on occasion include some clinical intervention and skills based competencies.
The team operates from 09.00 -17.00 hours Monday to Friday and this post 37.5 hours and expected to be worked over 5 days.
Applicants must hold a full current UK driving licence and have access to their own car for community visits.
Main duties of the job
Our successful candidate will have relevant community exposure/ experience, excellent communication skills and be committed to delivering high quality care to children, families and carers in their home, school, special school, hospital settings and local community environments. Good team working and interpersonal skills are essential as is an ability to manage own time and own caseload. A flexible working approach is essential in supporting these children and their families.
You will be required to manage a named caseload of children under the supervision of a senior nurse and will be expected to manage your own time and use your own initiative to provide evidenced based quality care. You will be part of a multi-professional team and will require excellent communication skills.
Each learning disability nurse within our team holds a link nurse role supporting a local special school, nursery or acute inpatient area. Liaison with education staff, school well-being teams and the local community are involved in this work.
The role involves 1 to 1 support for children and young people, 1 to 1 advice and guidance for parents and carers and co-ordination of group activities/ workshops for identified groups of children and parents. The majority of our contacts are face to face but we have embraced virtual working where it has been supportive to the needs of families. A good knowledge of general IT systems and patient recording systems will be helpful.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Registered Nurse Learning Disability/ Registered Children's Nurse or Equivalent to degree level.
Desirable
- *Recognised Teaching Qualification.
- *Evidence of Continuing Professional Development relating to learning disability.
Experience
Essential
- *Experience of working within a learning disability service/ provision
- *Experience of working in a Multidisciplinary team.
- *Able to demonstrate innovation within current areas of practice.
- *Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures including safe-guarding and disability.
- *Knowledge of recognized health related issues in children and young people with learning disabilities.
- *Good IT skills, ability to record information electronically, make external referrals and produce resources and PECs for children and young people.
Desirable
- *Experience of working within the Community setting.
- *Use Trust IT system.
- *Able to use Word Publishing/Excel or equivalent.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Able to transfer skills eg. Listening and being a good communicator into a variety of settings; able to communicate complex information where there are barriers to learning and understanding.
- *Able to demonstrate ability to promote the individuality and well being of clients in a holistic way.
- *Able to work on own initiative and be self directed. To work unsupervised for short periods of work and make decisions in the planning, delivery and evaluation of care.
- *To supervise staff on a day to day basis: to include 1:1 and appraisal monitoring of non-qualified staff.
- *Professional appearance.
- *Ability to work flexibly to meet operational needs of the team and wider organisations.
- *To remain calm under pressure, resourceful, approachable, non- judgmental, reliable and honest.
- *Car driver with access to their own vehicle for community visits daily.
Desirable
- *Experience of delivering training, education and information to parents/carer's, children and young people, health, social care and education staff.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Registered Nurse Learning Disability/ Registered Children's Nurse or Equivalent to degree level.
Desirable
- *Recognised Teaching Qualification.
- *Evidence of Continuing Professional Development relating to learning disability.
Experience
Essential
- *Experience of working within a learning disability service/ provision
- *Experience of working in a Multidisciplinary team.
- *Able to demonstrate innovation within current areas of practice.
- *Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures including safe-guarding and disability.
- *Knowledge of recognized health related issues in children and young people with learning disabilities.
- *Good IT skills, ability to record information electronically, make external referrals and produce resources and PECs for children and young people.
Desirable
- *Experience of working within the Community setting.
- *Use Trust IT system.
- *Able to use Word Publishing/Excel or equivalent.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Able to transfer skills eg. Listening and being a good communicator into a variety of settings; able to communicate complex information where there are barriers to learning and understanding.
- *Able to demonstrate ability to promote the individuality and well being of clients in a holistic way.
- *Able to work on own initiative and be self directed. To work unsupervised for short periods of work and make decisions in the planning, delivery and evaluation of care.
- *To supervise staff on a day to day basis: to include 1:1 and appraisal monitoring of non-qualified staff.
- *Professional appearance.
- *Ability to work flexibly to meet operational needs of the team and wider organisations.
- *To remain calm under pressure, resourceful, approachable, non- judgmental, reliable and honest.
- *Car driver with access to their own vehicle for community visits daily.
Desirable
- *Experience of delivering training, education and information to parents/carer's, children and young people, health, social care and education staff.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
