Child & Family Support Worker

NHS; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job description

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

We are currently looking to expand our Peterborough CAMHS Neurodevelopmental team. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Practitioner to join our Team. This is a part-time (4 days per week), permanent Support Worker Post.

The teams work with young people with a diagnosed moderate to severe Learning Disability and provide assessment and treatment for Autism and ADHD. The post holder will be part of the assessment process and provide interventions to parents and children and young people diagnosed with Autism, ADHD or Learning Disabilities. The team provides mental health assessments of young people with a neurodevelopmental disorder and also psychological therapies for co-morbid mental health disorders.

The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure at times. This post is open to professionals with the right attributes to enhance a team.

In return we will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role. We are keen to support and develop our staff through a clear career pathway and encourage promotional opportunities within the Trust.

If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a team striving to make a difference for our community by supporting people with neurodevelopmental disorders and co-morbid mental health issues then we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To work as a member of the neurodevelopmental multi-disciplinary team supporting school aged children with Autism, ADHD and Learning Disabilities, including offering appropriate support to their families.

About us

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

To work in partnership with parents/carers to implement interventions, strategies & activities & adapt these to individual children. To provide practical & emotional support in order to encourage parents/carers to take a pro-active approach to the development of their child's skills. To work in partnership with parents to promote the importance of positive interactions with their child(ren). To use knowledge base to deliver advice and support to parents. To assist in the running of parent workshops. To work with young people offering psycho education on their diagnosis. To identify behavioural needs and support parents with implementing behaviour management strategies. To attend Child in Need, Education and other professional meetings. To support families with attending appointments with other members of the team (e.g. psychiatry). To contribute to the design of individual intervention plans.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• Relevant NVQ or equivalent level of knowledge and experience.
• Good general education up to GCSE equivalent.
• Willingness to undertake training to meet competency framework.
• Training in mental health or neurodevelopmental conditions or their management.
• Care certificate training or willingness to undertake.

Experience

• Relevant experience of working with children and/or parents.
• Experience of working within a clinical setting.
• Working with children with additional needs.
• Experience of group work.
• Experience of parenting work.
• Lived experience of supporting a child with additional needs.

Skills & Abilities

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative & feedback relevant information.
• Ability to prioritise workload.
• Working with children/young people on a 1:1 basis.
• Knowledge of typical child development.
• Knowledge of some different types of neurodevelopmental conditions such as Autism, ADHD and Learning Disability.
• Good understanding of behaviour management strategies.
• Working with families who are experiencing difficulties.
• Knowledge of current legislation relating to Safeguarding, SEND reforms.

Other

• Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude.
• Ability to travel across sites in the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough area.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum pro rata