LD and Autism Keyworker Service - Senior Practitioner

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Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Job overview

• Job Summary

You will be a Senior Practitioner within the Learning Disability and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder Keyworker Service for The Beacon Centre: providing direct support to children with learning disabilities and/or autism with mental health needs and/or presenting with behaviours of concern.

The Beacon Centre CAMHS Service delivers highly intensive multidisciplinary Inpatient care to young people who are displaying high risk and Acuity of Emotional dysregulation and Mental Illness, supporting young people and their families in the NCL area. The Beacon Day Centre aims to shorten the length of inpatient admissions providing best outcomes for young people in a least disruptive way by supporting links to Community and providing meaningful structure. The post holder will lead on the delivery of specialist inpatient assessment and Treatment as well as offering consultation and support to patients attending the Beacon Centre Day for children and adolescents (13-18 years) within our 15 bedded inpatient Unit and 5 day place Day Service.

The LD/ASD Keyworker Service provides intensive interventions for children and young people who are part of the LD & ASD cohort. to support young people in this cohort, to be discharged from Tier 4 services and be supported back into the community.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities
• To ensure appropriate service representation and input to meetings, including Care Education and Treatment Reviews (CETR's) Care Programme Approach (CPA) meetings, as well as Child in Need (CIN) meetings, Child Protection Conferences, Core Groups, Looked-After Child (LAC) Reviews, and Education, Health and Care (EHC) Annual Reviews, as appropriate.
• To attend, contribute to, and update on, cases at the local Admission Avoidance Dynamic Support Register (DSR) meetings.
• To establish and maintain good working relationships with stakeholders including partners and parents to promote joint working and their involvement in the service.
• Involvement in the ongoing development of the service, including making suggestions for improvements and working to implement changes to the service as agreed with commissioners.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our Values:

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached JD, and person specification for further details or you can contact the service manager details below to discuss.

Person specification

Qualifications/ Registrations

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in a service for children and young people as a minimum Band 7 level (or equivalent) health, education or social care registered professional, e.g., Learning Disability Nurse (RNLD), Mental Health Nurse (RMN), Clinical/Counselling/Educational Psychologist, Family Therapist, Social Worker (SW), Occupational Therapist (OT), Speech & Language Therapist (SLT), Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO).

Desirable criteria

• Skills in Behavioural Analysis and management of behaviours of concern.

Skills Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to work in accordance with national and local Child Protection and Safeguarding policies and procedures including Pan London Child Protection procedures and working together to Safeguard Children.
• Ability to deliver good outcomes for children and young people with neurodevelopmental differences and family/carers, taking a holistic approach working with the Team Around the Child to maximise potential, increase family resilience and reduce reliance on statutory services.
• Ability to oversee complex support plans and risk assessments, assess need and risk, including the impact of neurodevelopmental differences or disabilities, behaviours of concern and mental health on day-to-day functioning.

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good understanding of relevant legislation and knowledge of the statutory processes and guidance for Children in Need, Children with Special Educational Needs (SEND), Mental Health Act (1983) and children and young people with complex neurodevelopmental needs as well as young people in transition.
• Knowledge of and commitment to the principles of prevention and early intervention, personalisation, and strength-based approaches.

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• JD&PS 6864367 (PDF, 366.8KB)
• Functional Requirement (PDF, 536.5KB)