Community Nurse (PBS Pathway) in Wallsend

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients. You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare. Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our friendly Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. Our team is a large well established and supportive multi-disciplinary team offering holistic health care to children and adults who have a learning disability living in North Tyneside. The ideal candidate will have an understanding of National and Local Policies relating to people with learning disabilities, experience of working with people who present with challenging behaviour as well as experience of working within a PBS framework and the ability to work effectively with children and their families/carers.

This is a new post, the successful candidate will join our already well established children's workstream to carry out ADHD assessments for children who have a learning disability.

The post-holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and will carry out ADHD diagnostic assessments for children who have a learning disability, with appropriate training available to the successful applicant. The post-holder will have opportunities to learn about the wider roles and responsibilities of the Community Learning Disability team and to support the Duty system. Opportunities to undertake service development projects will be available; the post-holder will provide support, training and supervision to others. The post holder will be welcomed as a member of the friendly, community learning disabilities team in Northumbria Health Care Trust offering regular team meetings, robust support and supervision, and a commitment to continued professional development.

As an integral part of North Tyneside Community Learning Disability Team, the post holder will be solely responsible for a personal caseload including assessment, planning, implementing and evaluation of care. They will be passionate about working in collaboration with service users, their family, carers and professional colleagues.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Carry out ADHD diagnostic assessments for children who have a learning disability.
• To provide a high quality community nursing service to adults and children who have a learning disability within the North Tyneside area.
• To work across Primary and secondary healthcare services to ensure equality of access for those with learning disabilities.
• To work with other agencies and services (statutory and non-statutory) to ensure equality of access for those with a learning disability and facilitate effective communication between clients and other agencies.
• To provide community nursing support to adults and children who have behavioural/mental health problems.
• Support the design and implement Positive Behaviour Support Plans to provide intensive, proactive support and crisis intervention to patients, carers and care providers to prevent/reduce admission to in-patient units and to maintain community placements.

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the workplace (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme. We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2. Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance. Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Certificate of Sponsorship: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.