Neurodevelopmental Practitioner- Nursing

This role may be suitable for someone with an interest in neurodivergence who does not yet have relevant or recent clinical experience for the role. In this case, the role would be offered as a Band 5 role to reflect the additional skills and experience required in order to work at a Band 6 level.  In this instance, a set of competencies would be provided by the service and the necessary training and support to enable the candidate to progress to a Band 6. We anticipate that successful completion of the competencies would take between one and two years.  

To deliver specialist support to children and young people with ADHD and their families in B&NES and/or Wiltshire as part of a mulitdisciplinary team

To support children and young people and their families with sleeping difficulties associated with neurodevelopmental conditions (Autism and ADHD)

 To support the Neurodevelopmental pathway team in developing the Neurodevelopmental Specialist Nursing Services to children with neurodevelopmental conditions- particularly ADHD.
Package DescriptionAs a Neurodevelopmental Practitioner- Nursing you’ll be part of our valued team in Wiltshire or BaNES

You will feel valued as a Neurodevelopmental Practitioner- Nursing within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

£28,407 - £34,581 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location 
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling 
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main Responsibilities
The successful candidate will work collaboratively with paediatric colleagues to identify children and young people (CYP) where ongoing assessment and support is required.  This may include collecting information to support medicines review or monitoring care and treatment plans.
You will work collaboratively with other colleagues in the neurodevelopmental pathways team to integrate services to maximise efficiency and optimise the experience of the service for CYP and their families.
Help therapeutically with children and young people (CYP) and their families to identify strengths and strategies for management at home and educational setting.
Deliver clinics across B&NES and/or Wiltshire as required to meet the need of the population, to support children and families where ADHD has been diagnosed. This will include sleep and management of behaviours.
Help ensure that the care plan is kept up to date and that this is communicated to GP colleagues and other relevant health colleagues, including education settings.
To work closely with School Nurse colleagues to identify children not in school but accessing care as part of pathways.
Work alongside colleagues in other teams to increase capacity by up-skilling.
Help to inform parents and carers on how to develop their awareness and understanding of ADHD
To ensure care pathways are followed; flagging any variance required to support further development
You will keep clinical records in line with records keeping policy and support the team to do so.
Keep up to date with quality and safety training
To access management supervision in line with the supervision/ 1:1 policy

The Ideal CandidateEssential

Registered Children’s Nurse or Specialist Public Health Nurse
Highly motivated and committed individual, with a solution focused approach
Comfortable with ambiguity and supporting others through this
Experience of working with CYP with neurodevelopmental conditions
Passion in improving the outcomes for CYP with ADHD
Experience of using strong leadership skills to support service development and transformation
Able to evidence ability to plan and complete workplan 
Aware of recent national and professional guidance and evidence related to field of practice
Experience of working in the community and across teams and services
Able to confidently assess and prioritise using guidelines and protocols, and support colleagues in this
Able to evidence recent CPD to validate professional practice
Able to demonstrate a wide range of adaptable communication skills 
Ability to develop sustainable professional relationships both internally and externally
Car driver and able to access a vehicle for work purposes

Desirable

Non Medical Prescriber v 100/ 150 or independent prescriber V300

About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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