Diana Specialist Practitioner – Diana service

Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)

Diana Children’s Community Service provide healthcare and emotional support to children/young people with complex healthcare needs, including life limiting/life threatening conditions in a variety of settings.

Primary role of the specialist practitioner for schools worker is to provide support in the school setting based at Ash Field School. The role provides health and educational support to designated pupils within the school.

• To work as part of a nurse led service caring for children/young people with life limiting illnesses and/or technological support under the supervision of registered nurses in an education setting.
• Work in close collaboration with parents/carers to provide care to children and young people in accordance with the individual care plan to meet nursing, therapy and educational needs.
• Contribute to the assessment of children’s and young people’s health and wellbeing alongside qualified staff.
• Monitor and evaluate children’s young people’s health and care management alongside their educational targets. Ensuring all aspects are the young person’s Education and Health care plan EHCP are adhered to.
• Take the lead role alongside registered nurse colleagues caring for more complex children and young people.
• Provide health advice to parents/carers on a day-to-day basis responding as necessary to health needs and incidents as they arise.
• Maintain and contribute to professional record ensuing confidentiality at all times.
• To supervise new members of the team and support induction and preceptorship programmes.
• Contribute to systems and processes, which support safe and effective care delivery including timely co-ordination of duty rota.
• Report changes in children’s and young people’s condition and any issues in respect of their health and management of care to the registered nurse in a timely manner.
• Ensure effective day-to-day communication in respect of children’s and young people health and care management with parents/cares.
• Contribute to effective systems of clinical governance contributing to the annual clinical audit programme.
• Act in accordance with the Leicestershire Medicine code for handling and storage of medicines.
• Contribute to the protection of children risk in accordance with the area child protection procedures both within Leicester Partnership Trust (LPT) and School.
• Meet competence requirements identified within the role and participate effectively in the personal development planning process, clinical supervision, and reflective practice. Attend training sessions relevant to post.
• Extended role any other duties as reasonably requested, including attending staff meetings, parent evenings and training.

Knowledge

• Understanding of child development or education to level 3 or equivalent
• Understanding of equal opportunities

Experience

• Experience of working with children and/ or disability.
• Experience of child development.

Skills

• Effective communications skills both written and verbal, including the ability to receive and provide complex /sensitive information
• Desire to develop clinical skills and implement developments within the service
• Good communication skills – written and verbal
• Demonstrate an ability and interest in learning new skills.

• Ability to:
  • • • use own initiative
      • work without direct supervision
      • work as a member of a team
      • organize own workload
      • relate to children with physical disabilities
      • engage with children of all ages and abilities
      • deal with sensitive situations
      • deal with stressful situations
      • Work with different organisations

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.