Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist children's nurse
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 179-7164205-I
- Employer
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Helen's House
- Town
- Ipswich
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Specialist Children's Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Integrated Community Paediatric Services (ICPS) in the East of the county.
To contribute to a comprehensive, co-ordinated, high quality multidisciplinary team for children in Suffolk with neurodevelopmental disorders with a particular focus on school age children.
The post holder will contribute to service development and be involved in the assessment and diagnostic processes, including monitoring and if qualified to prescribe medications.
The focus will be to provide specialist nursing expertise alongside the Community paediatricians, supporting children through the NDD pathway and running nurse led clinics, providing high quality evidence-based practice to children and their families.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
Key tasks:
• Provide advice and support and manage a caseload of children with neurodiversity, developmental delay and specific syndromes.
• Actively contribute to service development for ASD and pathway reviews.
• Steer the pathway strategically and work with the ADHD service.
• Support in planning assessments for referrals into ICPS.
• Carry out joint diagnostic assessments with the MDT for ASD, and feedback to families.
• Monitor and if qualified, prescribe ADHD and sleep medications.
• Liaise with other relevant services including GP’s, the ADHD service, Health Visitors, School Nurses, Paediatricians, Speech and Language Therapists, Psychology, Health, Education and Social Care
Working for our organisation
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description for further detail
The post holder will:
· Provide advice and support and manage a caseload of children with neurodiversity, developmental delay and specific syndromes.
· Actively contribute to service development for ASD and pathway reviews.
· Steer the pathway strategically and work with the ADHD service.
· Support in planning assessments for referrals into ICPS.
· Carry out joint diagnostic assessments with the MDT for ASD, and feedback to families.
· Monitor and prescribe ADHD and sleep medications.
· Liaise with other relevant services including GP’s, the ADHD service, Health Visitors, School Nurses, Paediatricians, Speech and Language Therapists, Psychology, Health, Education and Social Care.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- • NMC Level 1registration
- • Specialist Practitioner qualification in Health Visiting /School Nursing/ or similar, Degree/Diploma
- • Additional training to masters equivalent level.
- • Non-Medical prescribing qualification or willingness to work towards.
Desirable criteria
- • ADOS trained.
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Professional clinical knowledge and experience of working with children who have neurodiversity.
- • In-depth knowledge of key national strategies relevant to child development
- • Well established knowledge of assessment tools
- • Experience of working with children with neurodiversity
- • Excellent knowledge of standards of record keeping & report writing.
- • Excellent knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures
- • Experience of working with multi-disciplinary colleagues and of working in partnership with parents and carers.
- • Experience in delivering in service training
Desirable criteria
- • Experience in service development
- • Experience of developmental assessment in a wide range of different settings
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, required to ensure that the highly complex issues surrounding child development are understood within the environment.
- • Excellent written communication skills.
- • Ability to organise and prioritise own work, and good time management skills.
- • Demonstrate good leadership and team working skills
- • Ability to contribute to continuous service improvement and highlight areas of clinical practice and service delivery requiring change
- • Understanding of the principles of clinical governance
- • Ability to form judgements about conflicting information and views in order to synthesise clear outcomes
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- • The ability to stay calm in stressful and demanding environments.
- • A flexible approach to work.
- • Team player
- • Highly developed problem-solving skills.
- • Excellent attention to detail.
- • Ability to demonstrate good analytical and reflection skills
- Frequent Travel Essential - You will need to travel, so you must either hold a full, current driving licence and have access to personal transport or meet the mobility requirements of the role through other reasonable and suitable means
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jane Betteridge
- Job title
- Paediatric Nursing Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07908853512
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