Lead Family Link Worker - Neurodivergence and Learning Disabilities

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	10 Mehefin 2025
Cyflog:	£34,872.71 i £41,676.11 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£34872.71 - £41676.11 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	24 Mehefin 2025
Lleoliad:	Horley, RH1 1EB
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	B0141-25-0039

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Personalised care and support: Assess the needs and strengths of individuals referred to the service and help them identify individual goals to achieve desired change. Provide specialist support to children, young people and parents with Learning Disabilities and Neurodiversity (diagnosed and suspected). Design, deliver and evaluate interventions for young people and families which aim to improve mental health and wellbeing, build on existing strengths and increase levels of resilience. Provide personalised support to children, young people and their families, to enable them to take control of their wellbeing, live independently and improve their health outcomes. Offer evidence-based interventions to families to increase social support and parenting skills for parents with learning disabilities. Manage and prioritise your own caseload, in accordance with the needs, priorities and support required by individuals, some with complex and multiple needs. Co-produce a personalised support plan to improve health and wellbeing, introducing, connecting, and supporting young people and parents to community groups and statutory services. Have a good understanding of and utilise the THRIVE delivery model in sessions, which conceptualises the mental health and wellbeing needs of children, young people and families in terms of five different needs-based groupings: getting advice, getting help, getting more help, getting risk support, and thriving. Offer time-limited sessions with children, young people and families for up to an hour, face-to-face or virtual and offer follow up where needed. Meet young people on a one-to-one basis and give them time to tell their stories and focus on what matters to me. Build trust with the person, providing non-judgemental support, respecting diversity, and lifestyle choices. Work from a strength-based approach focusing on a persons assets. Provide earlier intervention whilst waiting or avoiding the need to wait for triage through the Mindworks Access and Advice line. Leadership: Act as a PCN lead point of contact for young people with additional needs requiring support. Take responsibility for more complex cases / situations presenting within the service, under the supervision of a clinical lead / GP. Provide point of contact support to the PCN Personalised Care team to include 1:1s, appraisals, assessing training needs, and service development. Ensure the service operates to national best practice, that processes are safe, effective and working guidelines are kept up to date. Play a leadership role in PCN projects providing a social prescribing perspective and interventions, as appropriate i.e. tackling neighbourhood inequalities specification Promote, monitor and maintain health, safety and security in the working environment. Be flexible to work in-hours and out of hours. Integrated partnership working: Accept referrals from a wide range of agencies including GP practices within primary care networks. Work closely with Mindworks Alliance Partners such as YMCA and the school-based mental health support teams, as well as the Children's community health provider, in order to ease cross referral processes and provide effective service for children, young people and their families. Work closely and communicate with other agency partners such as schools, Community Development Workers, Local Area Coordinators, Targeted Youth Service and Family Support Teams when necessary to ensure the local system is working in a joined-up way to provide the young person(s) with holistic care. Build relationships with key staff in GP practices within the local Primary Care Network, becoming part of the wider network team and giving information and feedback on social prescribing, work as part of a team and attend team meetings, practice huddles, training events and participate fully in one to one, peer and group supervision. Form effective links with local schools and other community enterprises. Refer young people and families back to other health professionals/agencies, when their needs are beyond the scope of the link worker role. Proactive care and early intervention: Support the Primary Care Network in reducing inequalities by proactively seeking engagement from Children and Young People and their families, who may require early intervention and support. Use population health management tools to identify patients who may benefit from early intervention. Deliver proactive group consultation workshops and peer-support workshops for patients with Learning Disabilities and/or Neurodiversity. Data capture: Keep accurate records of individual engagement, evidence of change and celebrate progress with children, young people and families. Provide, record and report the appropriate data to ensure the service and support offers can be accurately monitored and evaluated. Work sensitively with young people and families to capture key information, enabling tracking of the impact of social prescribing on their health and wellbeing. This will include written case studies as evidence of the effectiveness of individual interventions. Encourage young people and families to provide feedback and to share their stories about the impact of social prescribing on their lives. Provide quarterly reports to the PCN board and an annual evaluation report for the service. Clinical supervision: Actively participate in regular clinical supervision with a GP. Work cooperatively and under the management of the PCN board to ensure the highest quality of delivery and support. Apply safeguarding and child protection procedures and work closely with the safeguarding lead to ensure any issues and concerns are escalated and dealt with quickly and effectively. Please see the full job description for further information.