Neurodiversity (ND)/ Early Intervention Lead
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
Date: 20 hours ago
City: Luton, England
Contract type: Full time
Band 8a (subject to AFC) Neurodiversity (ND)/ Early Intervention Lead based in Kempston, Bedfordshire or Luton
Are you a highly skilled Clinician/ Practitioner with extensive experience in the area of ND looking for a new challenge?
Do you want to progress an innovative role around your experience, work collaboratively with system partners across Bedfordshire & Luton, improving awareness of early access to support for children young people and their families?
The Opportunity We Have For You
Operationally lead our new approach to ND.
Join a diverse team of Paediatricians, Nurses, Support Workers, Administrators and Allied Health Practitioners with excellent relationships and access to other partners already established including CAMHS, Education and hospital paediatric team.
The role will provide operational leadership and support strategic development of the new ND approach. Responsibilities will include operational leadership in rolling out the Early Awareness ND Toolkit, managing and developing the system wide Neurodiversity (ND) multi-disciplinary team and Cambridgeshire Community Services (CCS) Bedfordshire & Luton Early Intervention Team.
Flexible working considered.
The role will provide management and leadership for the development and implementation of our new approach to Neuro-Diversity (ND) services as well as our Early Intervention team (within our Community Paediatric service). The role requires leadership of a Multi-Disciplinary Team including both health and Local Authority staff offering early awareness training and liaison meetings.
The post holder requires exceptional leadership and service development skills to proactively manage and develop the MDT and to ensure excellent governance structures, systems and processes are in place that will meet CQC and OFSTED requirements.
The neurodiversity multi-disciplinary team is part of the Community Paediatrics Service. The new approach for our ND offer will initially include cohorts of children from each Local Authority area being offered school based assessments of need and liaison meetings to consider the effectiveness of supporting strategies offered as well as providing information & advice to families and professionals through various mediums. The service will support professionals in early identification and support through training, awareness and communication to ensure consistent shared messages across the system.
The service will support the development of peer parent ND groups ensuring regular engagement.
For professionals, the service will offer guidance, supervision and mentoring for professionals and moderation of the early awareness tool. The service will be pivotal to enable good practice to be shared, lessons to be learnt and to get advice from peers.
The service will be the gatekeepers for any formal specialist assessments required
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Augustina Williams Job title: Head of Service Community Paediatric Service Email address: [email protected]
Are you a highly skilled Clinician/ Practitioner with extensive experience in the area of ND looking for a new challenge?
Do you want to progress an innovative role around your experience, work collaboratively with system partners across Bedfordshire & Luton, improving awareness of early access to support for children young people and their families?
The Opportunity We Have For You
Operationally lead our new approach to ND.
Join a diverse team of Paediatricians, Nurses, Support Workers, Administrators and Allied Health Practitioners with excellent relationships and access to other partners already established including CAMHS, Education and hospital paediatric team.
The role will provide operational leadership and support strategic development of the new ND approach. Responsibilities will include operational leadership in rolling out the Early Awareness ND Toolkit, managing and developing the system wide Neurodiversity (ND) multi-disciplinary team and Cambridgeshire Community Services (CCS) Bedfordshire & Luton Early Intervention Team.
Flexible working considered.
The role will provide management and leadership for the development and implementation of our new approach to Neuro-Diversity (ND) services as well as our Early Intervention team (within our Community Paediatric service). The role requires leadership of a Multi-Disciplinary Team including both health and Local Authority staff offering early awareness training and liaison meetings.
The post holder requires exceptional leadership and service development skills to proactively manage and develop the MDT and to ensure excellent governance structures, systems and processes are in place that will meet CQC and OFSTED requirements.
The neurodiversity multi-disciplinary team is part of the Community Paediatrics Service. The new approach for our ND offer will initially include cohorts of children from each Local Authority area being offered school based assessments of need and liaison meetings to consider the effectiveness of supporting strategies offered as well as providing information & advice to families and professionals through various mediums. The service will support professionals in early identification and support through training, awareness and communication to ensure consistent shared messages across the system.
The service will support the development of peer parent ND groups ensuring regular engagement.
For professionals, the service will offer guidance, supervision and mentoring for professionals and moderation of the early awareness tool. The service will be pivotal to enable good practice to be shared, lessons to be learnt and to get advice from peers.
The service will be the gatekeepers for any formal specialist assessments required
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Augustina Williams Job title: Head of Service Community Paediatric Service Email address: [email protected]
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