Specialist Sleep Practitioner

The Together Trust; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A charity organization is seeking a Specialist Sleep Practitioner to provide personalized support to families of children with sleep difficulties. This remote role involves managing cases, developing sleep plans, and working with families to apply evidence-based practices. Ideal candidates will have qualifications in sleep training and experience with autistic children. Benefits include generous leave, a pension scheme, and comprehensive training opportunities.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Generous pension scheme

Occupational sick pay

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience of working with parents and families.
• Ability to apply knowledge of autism to plan intervention programmes.
• Experience in assessing child sleep problems.

Responsibilities

• Manage a case load of individual family referrals.
• Develop a sleep plan to encourage positive sleep habits.
• Contribute to sleep clinics and workshops.

Skills

Specialist Sleep training & qualification

Experience with autistic children

Knowledge of autism perspectives

Experience in multi-disciplinary teams

Education

Recognised professional qualification to degree level

Job description

Specialist Sleep Practitioner - Remote

Hours: 30 hours per week, 37.5 hours worked across 52 weeks per year

Salary: £27,722.40

Are you a passionate Specialist Sleep Practitioner ready to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people? Together Trust is looking for a Specialist Sleep Practitioner toprovide personalised advice and support to parents and carers of children and young people with sleep difficulties across all age and ability ranges and specialises in helping autistic people and those with complex communication needs.

What You will do

• Manage a case load of individual family referrals.
• Assess the child’s sleep problem to determine its nature and any contributing factors.
• Work with families to develop a sleep plan encouraging the child or young person to develop positive sleep habits.
• Provide advice and support to parents who are implementing a sleep programme.
• Contribute to the organisation and delivery of sleep clinics and workshops.
• Maintain high service standards and contribute to quality improvement across the Therapy & Specialist Support Service (TSS)Service in line with the needs of the service and evidence-based practice.
• Work independently and use own initiative.
• Apply evidence based and child centred principles.
• Offer advice, training and guidance to other professionals as required.
• Be accountable for all aspects of the role working to professional guidelines and Together Trust policy.
• Ensure practice is up to date and be evidence based.
• Participate in relevant education/training opportunities, read and critically appraise research articles and relevant literature, ensuring best practice in your day-to-day work.
• Establish/maintain internal and external networks to maintain good standards of practice, embrace new initiatives for the service and enhance job satisfaction.
• Be aware of any potential conflicts of interest and inform their manager of these.

What we are looking for

• Specialist Sleep training & qualification
• Recognised professional qualification to degree level or equivalent experience
• Experience of working with autistic children and those with complex needs including ADHD.
• Experience of successful practice in working with parents and families.
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Knowledge and understanding at both theoretical and practical levels of current perspectives on autism and SEN.
• Knowledge of specific approaches to working with autistic people, both structured and unstructured, e.g. TEACCH, PECS, Social Stories.
• Ability to use and apply knowledge of autism to plan intervention programmes.

Together we make a difference, develop and learn, and support each other. Every day with us is different, but our mission remains the same: To champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support - they are at the heart of everything we do. We stand by them and we work together for change.

Alongside an incredible team of like-minded peers, you’ll be working behind-the-scenes to support our staff, volunteers, families, and supporters. You will be helping our work happen across the charity; enabling us to care for and champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support.

Benefits

• Annual Leave 27 day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years
• Generous pension schemeand death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions initially rising with length of service and up to 6 x basic salary death in service benefit.
• Occupational sick pay and family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card
• Proud to be a real living wage employer
• Refer a friend scheme, be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications
• Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
• Promotion of Wellbeingacross the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults at your home

The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself).

This role will involve regulated activity.

Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.

If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can to support you