Job summary
THIS POST IS FIXED TERM/SECONDMENT FOR 6 MONTHS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE SERVICE
An exciting opportunity to work in a small, established, team
This role is for a fixed term of 6 months initially - working mainly in the South of Powys across a number of environments including home, school and short break provision , as part of a Multidisciplinary team supporting Children and Young People with learning disability and complex /challenging needs, through the delivery of high quality, evidence based, behavioural assessment and interventions.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high quality, community-based LD nursing service to the children, adolescents and their families who are referred to the service. This will include the assessment of each referral to identify clinical need, priority, service provision and whether involvement with other disciplines is appropriate. Ensure a person-centred approach to all assessments and planning and that wherever possible, the families of the referred child or adolescent are included in the assessment and ongoing management of the cases. This will include the use of a range of interventions and approaches i.e., behavioural, cognitive individual and family-based approaches.
About us
Being the smallest Heath Board in Wales means that you won't get lost in the crowd. Everybody at Powys Teaching Health Board is valued for the contribution they make to our varied and diverse portfolio of community-based services. Together, we can continue to make a real difference to our patients and build on our unrivalled reputation.
As a supportive and progressive employer, we actively encourage you to carve out a career with us, through a range of development pathways. We're also lucky enough to be situated in one of the most beautiful rural counties in Britain, let alone Wales! Achieving a healthy 'life work' balance is essential, and something we recognise by prioritising your well-being.
To start your journey with us, and to learn more about what we can offer you please visit: https://pthb.nhs.wales/working-for-us/. There you will find information about our benefits and values, read staff experiences and more about what our beautiful county has to offer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide a high quality, community-based LD nursing service to the children, adolescents and their families who are referred to the service. This will include the assessment of each referral to identify clinical need, priority, service provision and whether involvement with other disciplines is appropriate.Ensure a person-centred approach to all assessments and planning and that wherever possible, the families of the referred child or adolescent are included in the assessment and ongoing management of the cases. This will include the use of a range of interventions and approaches i.e., behavioural, cognitive individual and family-based approaches. Provide specialist assessments of children and young people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and other stakeholders.Formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management ofbehaviours that challenge stemming from behavioural models and employing methods based upon evidence-based interventions and their efficacy, across the full range of care settings that the individual accesses.Responsible for implementing a range of behavioural interventions forindividuals, carers, and groups. Work to a clear structure of defined clinicalinputs according to service and client need
Produce Behaviour Support Plans (BSP) in accordance with NICE guidance.Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and evaluation of children and young people whose presenting behaviour are managed by a Behavioural Support Plan working alongside other professionals in the multidisciplinary team, and within the statutory fHealth Act, Mental Capacity Act, and the Mental Health (Wales) Measure.Provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation to multi-disciplinary teams.Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients on the caseload and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of riskassessment and risk management. Ensure that all clinical plans demonstrate an adequate account of risk assessment and management.Act as a culture carrier within the service, promoting person centred values and a person-based approach to learning disabilities, reducing restrictive practice and behaviours that challenge in all settings.Provide expertise, advice, and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of behavioural management by all members of the supporting team.Undertake skills training and delivering presentations to a wide range ofprofessionals, parents, and carers.Lead presence within the multi-disciplinary team to actively contribute to the development of Childrens LD Services.Foster close working relationships with all appropriate agencies in the field of LD locally, regionally, and nationally.Ensure that each accepted referral of child and young person receives anindividual specialist assessment and is the subject of regular evaluation which,wherever practicable is formulated in conjunction with the child and/or their family.Provide specialist interventions for referred children and their families, within a therapeutic framework, both individually, with families and in groups.Act as the key worker for an identified caseload and liaise with Care Managers across Social Services.Participate in regular clinical supervision sessions with an appropriatesupervisor with expertise in behaviour analysis and managerial supervision with the Children Service Manager.Learning Disability service presence within the Neurodevelopmental Service.Contributing to the diagnostic assessment process for children and youngpeople with social and communication difficulties
Co-ordinate and liaise with other team members to ensure adequate service provision.Ensure effective channels of communication are maintained creatingopportunities for the dissemination of all relevant information to staff within the defined area.Communicate effectively with Womens and Childrens staff and partners,ensuring that their views and wishes are heard, informing decisions whereappropriate.Foster close working relationships with all other health professionals, partners and external agencies to co-ordinate health and wellbeing care in the best interest of the child and their families.Contribute to service provision and development by communicating effectively with all PTHB personnel and multi-agency partners within and outside the Directorate
Adhere to the NMC Guidelines for Professional Practice. Meet the NMCstandards for Records and Records keeping.Maintain your own NMC professional competencies for NMC Register, ensuring personal professional development in education and practice is continually updated.Attend mandatory training as identified by PTHB. Adhere to and support allPTHB protocols, policies, procedures, and guidelines.Identify protected time for clinical supervision and team building and attend appropriately.Act in accordance with All Wales Child Protection Procedures and PTHBSafeguarding Procedures.
Responsible for working with partners to ensure that the information sharing requirements of PTHB are effectively met, including taking the lead in developing protocols between health and its partners.Actively participate in complaint/disciplinary/incident/accident investigation, analysis, and resolution.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide a high quality, community-based LD nursing service to the children, adolescents and their families who are referred to the service. This will include the assessment of each referral to identify clinical need, priority, service provision and whether involvement with other disciplines is appropriate.Ensure a person-centred approach to all assessments and planning and that wherever possible, the families of the referred child or adolescent are included in the assessment and ongoing management of the cases. This will include the use of a range of interventions and approaches i.e., behavioural, cognitive individual and family-based approaches. Provide specialist assessments of children and young people referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and other stakeholders.Formulate and implement plans for the treatment and/or management ofbehaviours that challenge stemming from behavioural models and employing methods based upon evidence-based interventions and their efficacy, across the full range of care settings that the individual accesses.Responsible for implementing a range of behavioural interventions forindividuals, carers, and groups. Work to a clear structure of defined clinicalinputs according to service and client need
Produce Behaviour Support Plans (BSP) in accordance with NICE guidance.Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and evaluation of children and young people whose presenting behaviour are managed by a Behavioural Support Plan working alongside other professionals in the multidisciplinary team, and within the statutory fHealth Act, Mental Capacity Act, and the Mental Health (Wales) Measure.Provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation to multi-disciplinary teams.Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients on the caseload and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of riskassessment and risk management. Ensure that all clinical plans demonstrate an adequate account of risk assessment and management.Act as a culture carrier within the service, promoting person centred values and a person-based approach to learning disabilities, reducing restrictive practice and behaviours that challenge in all settings.Provide expertise, advice, and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of behavioural management by all members of the supporting team.Undertake skills training and delivering presentations to a wide range ofprofessionals, parents, and carers.Lead presence within the multi-disciplinary team to actively contribute to the development of Childrens LD Services.Foster close working relationships with all appropriate agencies in the field of LD locally, regionally, and nationally.Ensure that each accepted referral of child and young person receives anindividual specialist assessment and is the subject of regular evaluation which,wherever practicable is formulated in conjunction with the child and/or their family.Provide specialist interventions for referred children and their families, within a therapeutic framework, both individually, with families and in groups.Act as the key worker for an identified caseload and liaise with Care Managers across Social Services.Participate in regular clinical supervision sessions with an appropriatesupervisor with expertise in behaviour analysis and managerial supervision with the Children Service Manager.Learning Disability service presence within the Neurodevelopmental Service.Contributing to the diagnostic assessment process for children and youngpeople with social and communication difficulties
Co-ordinate and liaise with other team members to ensure adequate service provision.Ensure effective channels of communication are maintained creatingopportunities for the dissemination of all relevant information to staff within the defined area.Communicate effectively with Womens and Childrens staff and partners,ensuring that their views and wishes are heard, informing decisions whereappropriate.Foster close working relationships with all other health professionals, partners and external agencies to co-ordinate health and wellbeing care in the best interest of the child and their families.Contribute to service provision and development by communicating effectively with all PTHB personnel and multi-agency partners within and outside the Directorate
Adhere to the NMC Guidelines for Professional Practice. Meet the NMCstandards for Records and Records keeping.Maintain your own NMC professional competencies for NMC Register, ensuring personal professional development in education and practice is continually updated.Attend mandatory training as identified by PTHB. Adhere to and support allPTHB protocols, policies, procedures, and guidelines.Identify protected time for clinical supervision and team building and attend appropriately.Act in accordance with All Wales Child Protection Procedures and PTHBSafeguarding Procedures.
Responsible for working with partners to ensure that the information sharing requirements of PTHB are effectively met, including taking the lead in developing protocols between health and its partners.Actively participate in complaint/disciplinary/incident/accident investigation, analysis, and resolution.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RN Learning Disability Degree
Desirable
- Hold a relevant behavioural qualification e.g. BTEC Advanced Professional Diploma in Positive Behaviour Support or be in agreement to undertake this on appointmen
Knowledge
Essential
- RN Learning Disability Degree
- Evidence of post graduate training or significant relevant experience equivalent to formal qualification
- nt evidence of multiagency working
- Knowledge of Child Protection procedures
- Knowledge of Child Protection procedures
- Knowledge and understanding of Behaviour Analysis
- Skills for communication on complex information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills
- Ability to work with electronic databases and systems
- Experience of delivering training to various groups
- Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills
- Strong organisational skills
- Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales
- Ability to concentrate for long periods of time as required for data analysis
- Demonstrate PTHB Values
- Flexible to the needs of the service
- Ability to travel between Health Board sites in a timely manner
Desirable
- Hold a relevant behavioural qualification e.g. BTEC Advanced Professional Diploma in Positive Behaviour Support or be in agreement to undertake this on appointmen
- Understanding of WPAS and WCCIS systems
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RN Learning Disability Degree
Desirable
- Hold a relevant behavioural qualification e.g. BTEC Advanced Professional Diploma in Positive Behaviour Support or be in agreement to undertake this on appointmen
Knowledge
Essential
- RN Learning Disability Degree
- Evidence of post graduate training or significant relevant experience equivalent to formal qualification
- nt evidence of multiagency working
- Knowledge of Child Protection procedures
- Knowledge of Child Protection procedures
- Knowledge and understanding of Behaviour Analysis
- Skills for communication on complex information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills
- Ability to work with electronic databases and systems
- Experience of delivering training to various groups
- Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills
- Strong organisational skills
- Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales
- Ability to concentrate for long periods of time as required for data analysis
- Demonstrate PTHB Values
- Flexible to the needs of the service
- Ability to travel between Health Board sites in a timely manner
Desirable
- Hold a relevant behavioural qualification e.g. BTEC Advanced Professional Diploma in Positive Behaviour Support or be in agreement to undertake this on appointmen
- Understanding of WPAS and WCCIS systems
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).
