This post offers an exciting opportunity to join a multidisciplinary Community Paediatric team, focusing on the assessment, diagnosis support, and management of children with special needs, developmental difficulties, neurodevelopmental conditions, and other complex needs. The role includes independent prescribing as part of clinical management.
The service provision for neurodevelopmental conditions is currently under review, and you will contribute to developing and delivering innovative approaches to clinical management.
You will work both independently and as an effective team member, contributing to a multidisciplinary approach within the Children and Families Care Group and collaborating with schools and the voluntary sector.
As part of a friendly team committed to high-quality service provision, you will receive excellent supervision and support from within the team and the wider group. You will assess and manage children with complex needs, acting as a Non-medical prescriber for ADHD and sleep-related medicines, aligned with NMC, NICE, and national guidelines.
In this role, you will collaborate with Consultant Paediatricians and other health professionals, working closely with patients, families, and the multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive assessments. You will lead preliminary assessments of new referrals, using agreed tools and observations in various settings, and serve as a point of contact for queries, providing advice and signposting to external agencies.
You will liaise with services such as CAMHS, Social Care, and Education to ensure holistic care, and participate in designing and delivering parent education programs.
The postholder will support nurse-led clinics, with responsibility for assessment, intervention, and evaluation of an identified caseload. You will work autonomously within the multidisciplinary team and partner agencies, including non-medical prescribing within clinical management plans.
Working relationships include internal teams like Community Paediatrics Management and external partners such as GPs, schools, and social services.
Joining MPFT supports your career development, offers NHS pension, flexible working options, generous leave, health and wellbeing resources, and additional benefits like travel support, lease cars, bikes, free parking, vaccinations, and financial support services.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion, with staff networks to connect like-minded colleagues.
Please note, this vacancy may close early if we receive a high volume of applications.
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