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Specialist Childrens Learning Disabilities Nurse | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 12 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2025 |
| Location: | Norwich, NR2 3TU |
| Company: | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7204524/839-7204524-SR |
Summary
We are seeking a compassionate, innovative, and enthusiastic Band 6 Specialist Children’s Learning Disability Nurse to join our ‘Outstanding’ community Children’s and Young People’s Specialist services. You would be joining a friendly and supportive highly specialist multidisciplinary team and would contribute to the development of nursing provision within our Learning Disability Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (Starfish).
The post is 37.5 hours per week and will working across Norfolk, including Kings Lynn, Great Yarmouth, and Norwich. Base is negotiable and flexible working is supported and includes agile/home working where relevant.
The Starfish Team offers assessment and intervention for young people of school age (4-18 years) with a diagnosed learning disability who are experiencing significant behavioural and/or mental health difficulties.
The Starfish team covers a large geographical area, so it is essential that you can drive and have access to a vehicle when pool cars are not available.
· To provide highly specialised support and advice to children and teenagers with significant learning disabilities, neurodevelopment disorders and their families.
· To provide clinical nursing services for children and young people under 18 years of age.
· To provide a range of clinical expertise and design appropriate interventions to meet the child’s changing developmental needs.
· To be committed to implementing Every Child Matters principle.
· To supervise and manage junior staff, mentor new colleagues and student nurses.
· To undertake assessment and clinical interventions for children and young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems.
· To work within a multi-disciplinary team and lead on specialist area of care pathways such as ASD, ADHD & LD. The responsibilities include assessment, planning and implementation of care pathways for children within a specialist area.
· Running nurse led clinics, writing guidelines and auditing clinic sessions and ensuring communication between Consultant, GP and others as necessary.
To participate in rolling programmes of parent education which can be delivered either into groups or individually, both in clinic settings and at home. The post holder will use a range of training approaches to meet individual needs and to overcome possible barriers to understanding.
Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.
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Please see attached job description and person specification, please refer to this document for the main responsibilities
This advert closes on Monday 2 Jun 2025
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