Band 5 Children's Learning Disability Nurse

Our successful candidate will have relevant community exposure/experience, excellent communication skills and be committed to delivering high quality care to children, families and carers in their home, school, special school, hospital settings and local community environments. Good team working and interpersonal skills are essential as is an ability to manage own time and own caseload. A flexible working approach is essential in supporting these children and their families.

You will be required to manage a named caseload of children under the supervision of a senior nurse and will be expected to manage your own time and use your own initiative to provide evidenced based quality care. You will be part of a multi-professional team and will require excellent communication skills.

Each learning disability nurse within our team holds a link nurse role supporting a local special school, nursery or acute inpatient area. Liaison with education staff, school well-being teams and the local community are involved in this work.

The role involves 1 to 1 support for children and young people, 1 to 1 advice and guidance for parents and carers and co-ordination of group activities/ workshops for identified groups of children and parents. The majority of our contacts are face to face but we have embraced virtual working where it has been supportive to the needs of families. A good knowledge of general IT systems and patient recording systems will be helpful.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Qualifications

Essential: - *Registered Nurse Learning Disability/ Mental Health or Equivalent to degree level.

Desirable: - *Recognised Teaching Qualification.; - *Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.

Experience

Desirable: - *Experience of working within the Community setting.; - *Use Trust IT system.; - *Able to use Word Publishing/Excel or equivalent.

Additional Criteria

Desirable: - *Experience of ability to train and deliver education/ information to carer's/children and young people / health, social care and education staff.