Job summary
- Main area
- Child development
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (4 days CDC 1 day children's hearing team)
- Job ref
- 382-FICC192-24-A
- Employer
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals
- Town
- Blackpool
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Support Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 4
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
Are you a compassionate dynamic professional looking for a change? Do you have a passion in supporting children with complex health and developmental needs and their families? Do you embrace change and want to be part of a multi-disciplinary team providing this specialist expertise, knowledge, skills and support? If so, you may just be the person we are looking for!
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Specialist Nursing team who work within Blenheim Child Development Centre. We are an innovative forward-thinking team who are looking to recruit someone with the same passion, energy and empathy. We are particularly looking for someone who has a special interest in working with children who have additional needs and their families. We work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and are committed to early support/intervention. We have in recent times redesigned the way we deliver our service and have robust pathways including episodes of care/support and development.
Applications are welcomed from experienced practitioners. You will be well supported by the team and management and valued/rewarded in your role.
Main duties of the job
- supporting children and families Support all senior staff clinics with developmental assessments and clinical observations through play.
- Lead on ensuring all clinics run efficiently
- Support the specialist nurses in joint developmental assessments
- Support/advice via programmes of care on sleep toileting and behaviour.
- Organise contacts for those families needing specialist packages of care.
- Understanding and involvement with responsibility to safeguard children and families
- Supporting nursing team /children's hearing team with supporting hearing assessments
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients.
As one of the United Kingdom’s largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents – it’s not just a good place to work; it’s a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Episodes of Care- including direct support to children and families: -
- Support all senior staff clinics with both formal developmental assessments and clinical observations obtained through play.
- Lead on ensuring all clinics run efficiently including setting up/clearing away and maintenance of infection control measures/stock control. This will also include the joint assessment clinics and tertiary centre clinics including neurology and genetics
- Support the specialist nurses in joint developmental assessments as per Blenheim and the Neonatal Enhanced Developmental pathways
- As directed by the specialist nurses, to provide evidence-based specialist support/advice via programmes of care on sleep toileting and behaviour. Organise own contacts for those families needing specialist packages of care. Using own initiative and experience to modify interventions planned according to client’s needs with oversight from the specialist nurses
- Support the specialist nurses in providing Triple P Stepping Stones group parenting provisio
- To contribute to safeguarding plans by reporting observations of family interactions, child development and any areas of concern. The post holder will make every effort to contact the relevant specialist nurse, safeguarding advisor or Team Leader for advice in the event of significant child protection concerns being identified but may be required to refer directly to Children’s Social Care, in the ‘best interests of the child
- To contribute to the care of all clients, always ensuring safety and dignity
- To support trained nursing staff as required with children's hearing assessments
- To be aware at all times of the needs of client groups and to promote and encourage positive health choices and school readiness. To be actively involved in the communication of complex information regarding clients’ needs and reporting this and any other useful information to the specialist nurses or other members of the team
- To uphold all aspects of the service and organisational policies and procedures
- To take individual responsibility to report incidents as well as any identified actual or potential risks either to you, the organisation, or others
- To maintain contemporaneous and accurate electronic and/or written records
- Undertake any additional tasks as delegated by the specialist nurses within scope of competencies
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NNEB, NVQ Level 3 in health, social care, childcare or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Foundation Degree in relevant area of study
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children, young people, and families
- Experience working in or with a child development centre.
- Knowledge and skills in child development for typically developing children and ability to identify concerns.
- Demonstrate continuous professional development and remain up to date with current evidence
- Willingness to train to undertake formal developmental assessments for children who are referred to the Child development Centre. Also, up skill to provide robust clinical observations
Desirable criteria
- Assessing and supporting families with children who have neurodevelopmental concerns.
- Experience of working in the community
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills
- Ability to analyse information and assess client’s needs
- Robust IT skills (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint as minimum)
- Clear and accurate record keeping
- Ability to plan and prioritise own workload
- Demonstrate an understanding of the Trust’s values
- Ability to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and seek advice/support as indicated
- Ability to respond to changing priorities during the working day in order to meet the client’s/service needs
- Recognises the limits of self within the role
- Seeks and uses support appropriately
- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.
- Shows respect for others’ feelings, views, and circumstances
- In stressful situations keeps own feelings in check and takes constructive action
- Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress, can recognize when to use them and does so.
- Has a realistic knowledge of personal strengths and areas for development
- Can demonstrate flexibility of approach
- Has the physical ability to be able to play on the floor whilst assessing children.
- Car owner/driver or suitable alternative transport arrangements to enable travel around the locality in the course of work
Desirable criteria
- Confidence to run groups/presentations.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jackie McKay
- Job title
- Recruiting Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 951615
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