Job summary
Employer heading
Bank Band 6/7 psychologist or RMN INW
NHS AfC: Band 6
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
Job Purpose
· To work as part of the Special School Nursing Team taking overall responsibility for the assessment, provision, management and evaluation of evidenced based nursing care to children in the Special Schools.
· To work as part of the Special School Nursing team, to provide day to day management of the care worker staff, equipment and clinical resources in the schools, in line with professional standards and quality of care.
· To take responsibility for training relevant support staff and care worker staff, in line with agreed competency based training packages.
· To provide clinical input to the school management boards for school-wide issues.
Main duties of the job
· To provide day to day management to the nursing team in the school, organising systems of work in accordance with job descriptions.
· To ensure good communication and liaison between the nursing team, teachers, parents, and other agencies to help foster effective interagency work and a multi-disciplinary approach for care.
· To ensure the effective and efficient use of resources
· To provide service reports, providing appropriate information, action plans and evaluation of outcomes, reflecting national and local strategic priorities for children and families with special needs in liaison with line manager.
· To be the first point of contact for staff, students, service users and other key stakeholders, providing a prompt response to operational issues relating to health delivery.
· Be conversant with the CLCH and School policies and procedures and work within the identified standards.
Working for our organisation
We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
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stay well
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manage their own health with the right support
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avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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· To assess the health needs of children and school community, agree individual and school health plans and deliver these through multidisciplinary partnerships.
· To organise the day to day Special School Nursing Service to children with complex health needs at the Special Needs Schools.
· To provide skilled, effective, evidenced based nursing care for children with complex care needs including technology dependent children.
· To participate in direct clinical input to ensure appropriate nursing and screening interventions. To promote the optimum use of available resources and to secure the highest standards of care to both primary and secondary age children.
· To provide information and support to facilitate the child’s and family’s own choices with regards to nursing care
· To administer medication as prescribed and ensure safe storage of medicines in accordance to CLCH policy in Special Schools where nurses are based.
Person specification
EDUCATION/QUALIFICATION
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS and registered with HCPC
- Allied health professional with evidence of recent and continuing post-registration professional education and training equivalent to post-graduate diploma level required for the professional’s discipline
- Registered nurse with current registration
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of conducting autism assessments and working in autism services
- Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of clients across in neurodevelopmental or mental health services, and across a range of care settings, e.g. outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
- Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of clients across in neurodevelopmental or mental health services, and across a range of care settings, e.g. outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching training and/or supervision
- Trained in formal autism assessment tools (e.g., ADOS-2, ADI-R).
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Shanelle Gree
- Job title
- Bank Recruitment Business Partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0203 937 8322
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