Community Nurse (PBS Pathway)

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; The Green; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Health Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated clinician to join the Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. The post involves conducting ADHD diagnostic assessments for children with learning disabilities within a supportive multidisciplinary setting.

You will work with families and carers, provide training and supervision to colleagues, and contribute to service development projects. A commitment to ongoing professional development is expected.

Qualifications

• Understanding of National and Local Policies relating to people with learning disabilities.
• Experience of working with people who present with challenging behaviour.
• Experience of working within a PBS framework.

Responsibilities

• Carry out ADHD diagnostic assessments for children who have a learning disability.
• Support, training and supervision to others within the team.
• Learn about the wider roles and responsibilities of the Community Learning Disability team and to support the Duty system.
• Opportunity to undertake service development projects.

Skills

Policy understanding

Challenging behaviour experience

PBS framework experience

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join our friendly Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. Our team is a large well established and supportive multi-disciplinary team offering holistic health care to children and adults who have a learning disability living in North Tyneside.

The ideal candidate will have an understanding of National and Local Policies relating to people with learning disabilities, experience of working with people who present with challenging behaviour as well as experience of working within an PBS

framework and the ability to work effectively with children and their families/carers.

This is a new post, the successful candidate will join our already well established childrens workstream to carry out ADHD assessments for children who have a learning disability.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

The post-holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and will carry out ADHD diagnostic assessments for children who have a learning disability, with appropriate training available to the successful applicant.

The post-holder will have opportunities to learn about the wider roles and responsibilities of the Community Learning Disability team and to support the Duty system.

Opportunities to undertake service development project will be available the post-holder will provide support, training and supervision to others.

The post holder will be welcomed as a member of the friendly, community learning disabilities team in Northumbria Health Care Trust offering regular team meetings, robust support and supervision, and a commitment to continued professional development.

As an integral part of North Tyneside Community Learning Disability Team, the post holder will be solely responsible for a personal caseload including assessment, planning, implementing and evaluation of care.

They will be passionate about working in collaboration with service users, their family, carers and professional colleagues.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.