Job summary
We are looking to recruit a Band 6 nurse, or an experienced Band 5 looking to step up into a Band 6 role to support the Neurodevelopmental Service (NDS).This is a part time post for 25.5 hours per week, based at Norwich Community Hospital.
The NDS offers diagnostic assessment and a range of post diagnostic workshops to support the lives of children and young people who have suspected Neurodevelopmental disorders such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
The post holder will have a good knowledge base of autism and ADHD with an ability to be involved in complex diagnostic decision-making as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
As the care coordinator for a small caseload, working with members of the multidisciplinary team the post holder will plan and book assessments for children/young people on their caseload, be the point of contact for the family and work with the family though the assessment process to the point of feeding back the outcome of the diagnostic process and discharge.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have an expert knowledge base of Neurodevelopmental conditions, complex decision-making skills and clinical competencies for expanded scope of practice.
The post holder will complete and interpret assessment tools to inform diagnosis and effectively treat/initiate treatment/offer advice and interventions for children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions and will be expected to use a range of assessment skills, including formal psychometric tests, interviews with parents and carers and observations in a range of settings to inform the planning of assessment.
Following an initial period of training and shadowing you will be expected to work independently in a variety of settings.Up-to-date Safeguarding knowledge is essential.
About us
Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
We would love to hear from candidates who have a passion for working with children and young people with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. We strongly encourage informal visits and discussion prior to application.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding this opportunity, please contact:Ann Maclean - Discipline Lead for NDS Nursing on 01553 668712 or ann.maclean@nchc.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To be involved in the assessment of children with suspected neurodevelopmental disorders such as ASD/ADHD.
- To provide highly specialised nursing based support and advice to children and teenagers with significant neurodevelopment disorders and their families.
- To provide clinical expertise and design appropriate interventions to meet the individual childs changing developmental needs.
- To provide supervision and management of junior staff, mentoring new colleagues and student nurses.
- To undertake assessment and clinical interventions for children and young people with complex neurodevelopmental disorders
- To run nurse led clinics, writing guidelines and auditing clinic sessions and ensuring communication between other professionals as necessary.
- To participate in rolling programmes of parent education which can be delivered either into groups or individually, both in clinic settings and at home. The post holder will use a range of training approaches to meet individual needs and to overcome possible barriers to understanding
Clinical
- Use highly developed effective communication skills based on valuing others, recognising own and others strengths and differences.
- Ability to utilise and enabling a therapeutic approach with children and young people together with their families and carers.
- Ability to assess and plan enabling and outcome focussed care interventions with children, young people and their families/carers, drawing on previous nursing experience within an evidence based and theoretically grounded framework, utilising Every Child Matters principles.
- Monitor and evaluate care against agreed outcome measures.
- Effectively plan and manage group work activities with colleagues.
- Ensure that care offered to children/young people is safe and needs focussed, drawing on current evidence based best practice.
- Use effective and standardised assessment tools.
- Practice in enabling and facilitative manner that aims high by drawing on strengths whilst recognising and working with stakeholders to minimise and overcome or adapt to environmental constraints.
- Be sensitive to and validatory of, social and cultural difference whilst maintaining the primacy of safeguarding principles.
- Keep timely, concise and accurate records, maintaining confidentiality.
- Carry caseload as allocated by service manager, developing individualised nursing care plans.
- Lead or participate in individual or group work with children and young people, adapting resource packages to meet specific needs.
- Exercise clinical judgement, soundly grounded and evidence based, supported by effective case supervision.
- Engage in play with children and young people.
- Applying evidence based nursing knowledge to specific situations.
- Adapting standardised methodology to meet individual need, carefully analysing situations that arise in light of previous experience and best practice.
- Exercising sound clinical judgement with children, young people and families/carers who may have extensive needs but who have access to limited resources.
- Person to person contact with children, young people and their family/carers on a regular basis.
- To participate in regular reviews of cases and attend case discussions, conferences and reviews as appropriate, including safeguarding core groups and the conference process.
Professional
- Identify and request sufficient time to continue professional development.
- Actively engage in monthly peer support meetings.
- Keep up to date regarding current practice and policy developments.
- Participate in research as allocated by the service manager/Clinical Pathway Lead following NCH&C guidelines and policies.
Organisational
- Collaborative working with inter-disciplinary and multi-agency partners.
- Manage diary effectively to maximise clinical/development/travelling time to cover large mixed rural and urban populations.
- Report workload pressures appropriately.
- Supervise and manage junior members of staff including PDR and capability processes.
- Be aware of and responsive to, issues of potential and actual risk that may arise in carrying out care, reporting promptly using recognised NCH&C systems.
- Participate in service development work as directed by Integrated Team Leader utilising own strengths and areas of professional interest/specialism.
- Input client data as required on current IT system.
- Maintain security and confidentiality of information acquired, stored and sent within local and national guidelines
- Regularly visit children and their carers at home and may frequently be lone workers.
- The post holder may use VDU equipment for at least an hour daily.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To be involved in the assessment of children with suspected neurodevelopmental disorders such as ASD/ADHD.
- To provide highly specialised nursing based support and advice to children and teenagers with significant neurodevelopment disorders and their families.
- To provide clinical expertise and design appropriate interventions to meet the individual childs changing developmental needs.
- To provide supervision and management of junior staff, mentoring new colleagues and student nurses.
- To undertake assessment and clinical interventions for children and young people with complex neurodevelopmental disorders
- To run nurse led clinics, writing guidelines and auditing clinic sessions and ensuring communication between other professionals as necessary.
- To participate in rolling programmes of parent education which can be delivered either into groups or individually, both in clinic settings and at home. The post holder will use a range of training approaches to meet individual needs and to overcome possible barriers to understanding
Clinical
- Use highly developed effective communication skills based on valuing others, recognising own and others strengths and differences.
- Ability to utilise and enabling a therapeutic approach with children and young people together with their families and carers.
- Ability to assess and plan enabling and outcome focussed care interventions with children, young people and their families/carers, drawing on previous nursing experience within an evidence based and theoretically grounded framework, utilising Every Child Matters principles.
- Monitor and evaluate care against agreed outcome measures.
- Effectively plan and manage group work activities with colleagues.
- Ensure that care offered to children/young people is safe and needs focussed, drawing on current evidence based best practice.
- Use effective and standardised assessment tools.
- Practice in enabling and facilitative manner that aims high by drawing on strengths whilst recognising and working with stakeholders to minimise and overcome or adapt to environmental constraints.
- Be sensitive to and validatory of, social and cultural difference whilst maintaining the primacy of safeguarding principles.
- Keep timely, concise and accurate records, maintaining confidentiality.
- Carry caseload as allocated by service manager, developing individualised nursing care plans.
- Lead or participate in individual or group work with children and young people, adapting resource packages to meet specific needs.
- Exercise clinical judgement, soundly grounded and evidence based, supported by effective case supervision.
- Engage in play with children and young people.
- Applying evidence based nursing knowledge to specific situations.
- Adapting standardised methodology to meet individual need, carefully analysing situations that arise in light of previous experience and best practice.
- Exercising sound clinical judgement with children, young people and families/carers who may have extensive needs but who have access to limited resources.
- Person to person contact with children, young people and their family/carers on a regular basis.
- To participate in regular reviews of cases and attend case discussions, conferences and reviews as appropriate, including safeguarding core groups and the conference process.
Professional
- Identify and request sufficient time to continue professional development.
- Actively engage in monthly peer support meetings.
- Keep up to date regarding current practice and policy developments.
- Participate in research as allocated by the service manager/Clinical Pathway Lead following NCH&C guidelines and policies.
Organisational
- Collaborative working with inter-disciplinary and multi-agency partners.
- Manage diary effectively to maximise clinical/development/travelling time to cover large mixed rural and urban populations.
- Report workload pressures appropriately.
- Supervise and manage junior members of staff including PDR and capability processes.
- Be aware of and responsive to, issues of potential and actual risk that may arise in carrying out care, reporting promptly using recognised NCH&C systems.
- Participate in service development work as directed by Integrated Team Leader utilising own strengths and areas of professional interest/specialism.
- Input client data as required on current IT system.
- Maintain security and confidentiality of information acquired, stored and sent within local and national guidelines
- Regularly visit children and their carers at home and may frequently be lone workers.
- The post holder may use VDU equipment for at least an hour daily.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registered Nurse, RN Child / RN Learning Disabilities
- Mentorship Programme
- LSCB Core Module
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Post Registration experience of working with children who have Attention Deficit Disorders or other Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Substantial experience of collaborative multidisciplinary and multi-agency working
Desirable
- Community based nursing intervention with children and young people
- Participation in group work
Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
Essential
- Established named nurse skills
- Evidence based and outcome led nursing practice
- Sensitivity to and understanding of the individual needs of children and their families
- Effective use of information technology
- Extensive knowledge of the emotional, psychological, developmental and social needs of children and young people with ASD
- Proven ability to apply evidence based clinical interventions
- Ability to evaluate clinical effectiveness
- Understanding of non-verbal communication systems and their use with children and young people
- Accurate, timely and concise recording
- Thorough understanding of the Common Assessment Framework
- Ability to work in partnership with others
Desirable
- Knowledge of local statutory and non-statutory resources available for this particular group
- Holder of identified caseload
- Participation in group work
- Individualised enabling direct work with children/young people
- Webster Stratton
Communication
Essential
- Able to pass on skills and knowledge to others, in formal and informal settings
- Able and willing to seek specialist support when clinical indicated
- Able to manage the emotional consequences of working with patients with a range of conditions/needs
- Good presentation skills
Personal and People Development
Essential
- Experience of personnel management including staff recruitment, induction, career development, supervision and appraisal
- Experience of providing effective line management
- Ability to nurture skills and to delegate appropriately
- Ability to manage change effectively
Personal Attributes / Behaviours (linked to the Trust's Behaviour Framework)
Essential
- Able to identify with the Trust's commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
- Value diversity
Other
Essential
- Must hold a full, valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle
- Enhanced DBS
- Able to communicate effectively using the English language in both verbal and written forms
- To implement Norfolk Steps physical interventions
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registered Nurse, RN Child / RN Learning Disabilities
- Mentorship Programme
- LSCB Core Module
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Post Registration experience of working with children who have Attention Deficit Disorders or other Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Substantial experience of collaborative multidisciplinary and multi-agency working
Desirable
- Community based nursing intervention with children and young people
- Participation in group work
Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
Essential
- Established named nurse skills
- Evidence based and outcome led nursing practice
- Sensitivity to and understanding of the individual needs of children and their families
- Effective use of information technology
- Extensive knowledge of the emotional, psychological, developmental and social needs of children and young people with ASD
- Proven ability to apply evidence based clinical interventions
- Ability to evaluate clinical effectiveness
- Understanding of non-verbal communication systems and their use with children and young people
- Accurate, timely and concise recording
- Thorough understanding of the Common Assessment Framework
- Ability to work in partnership with others
Desirable
- Knowledge of local statutory and non-statutory resources available for this particular group
- Holder of identified caseload
- Participation in group work
- Individualised enabling direct work with children/young people
- Webster Stratton
Communication
Essential
- Able to pass on skills and knowledge to others, in formal and informal settings
- Able and willing to seek specialist support when clinical indicated
- Able to manage the emotional consequences of working with patients with a range of conditions/needs
- Good presentation skills
Personal and People Development
Essential
- Experience of personnel management including staff recruitment, induction, career development, supervision and appraisal
- Experience of providing effective line management
- Ability to nurture skills and to delegate appropriately
- Ability to manage change effectively
Personal Attributes / Behaviours (linked to the Trust's Behaviour Framework)
Essential
- Able to identify with the Trust's commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
- Value diversity
Other
Essential
- Must hold a full, valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle
- Enhanced DBS
- Able to communicate effectively using the English language in both verbal and written forms
- To implement Norfolk Steps physical interventions
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).
