Main area Allied Health Professionals or Nursing staff Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract One full time permanent post and one 22.5hr secondment. There may be the potential for the secondment to be increased to full time hours. Hours
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37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week for the permanent post, Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm. 22.5hrs per week for the secondment (days to be agreed but will fit within Monday to Friday, 9-5 hours). There is the potential for the secondment to be increased to 37.5hrs per week, Monday to Friday.) Job ref 338-6831618-25
Employer Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Miranda House Town Hull Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 09/02/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 6
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019 Job overview
Are you interested in being part of transforming and developing an innovative service? Humber’s Autism Mental Health Support Team aims to enhance support for autistic adults and their families/carers during mental health crises. If you are a dynamic individual with a drive to deliver highly specialised care within a team that offers excellent service for autistic adults please contact us. We are recruiting two band 6 specialist practitioners to this specialist team. One permanent, full time practitioner post and one part time secondment post (22.5hrs) for 10-12 months. There may be the potential to increase the secondment post to full time hours. This post is open to applicants from nursing, social work and AHP backgrounds. This role will predominantly involve working closely with mental health teams within the unplanned care sector to support their work with autistic service users. This will include attending MDTs regularly to develop consistent working, offering support around care planning, sharing learning and support around specific issues to ultimately support the service user’s recovery. The post holder will work to professional and regulatory body codes, standards and guidance at all times ensuring that their practice is grounded in evidence based theoretical and practical knowledge. Main duties of the job
Core Functions To utilise specialist clinical skills to support, train and coach mental health teams in their work with autistic clients to promote recovery. To work independently, without direct supervision, prioritising workload and responding to service demands in a timely way. To recognise the need for and initiate where appropriate, advice of relevant specialisms. To liaise closely with members of the MDT within the team and wider services to ensure the right support is being offered to autistic service users. To employ excellent communication skills, both verbal and written to promote multi-disciplinary and interagency liaison and collaborative practice to broad range of audiences, including other professionals. To continuously evaluate the clinical effectiveness of the service by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures and participate in the development of the service. To maintain knowledge of current research and clinical developments, to participate in research/audit within service and to take part in relevant training to support the role. To supervise and oversee work delegated to band 4 team members. Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website. We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care. We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started. We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised. We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support. From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK. Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specification. Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation and guidance relevant to this sector. Educated to degree level or equivalent as required for registration with professional body. Registered with appropriate clinical professional body. Member of specialist interest group/network, regionally or nationally. Good working knowledge of relevant IT systems to own area of work. Able to enable effective communication approaches to non-face to face situational environments e.g. phone, video, email or remote consultation. Experience
Demonstrable experience of working with neurodiversity. Experience of training patients/carers and other healthcare staff. Be able to effectively Chair meetings. Evidence of suitable post-registration professional practice, in hospital or other healthcare setting. Experienced in recognising signs of neurodiversity in those who haven’t been diagnosed and signposting to relevant services. Skills and competence
Able to communicate effectively and sensitively with patients, colleagues and carers. Able to work as part of a wide ranging team. Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity. Experience in supervising and mentoring and teaching. Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date. This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter. Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you. If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential. We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both. IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis. If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. If you require sponsorship
to work in the UK, check you are eligible under the UKVI points based system online. Not all jobs we advertise are eligible for sponsorship. 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.
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Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019 Job overview
Are you interested in being part of transforming and developing an innovative service? Humber’s Autism Mental Health Support Team aims to enhance support for autistic adults and their families/carers during mental health crises. If you are a dynamic individual with a drive to deliver highly specialised care within a team that offers excellent service for autistic adults please contact us. We are recruiting two band 6 specialist practitioners to this specialist team. One permanent, full time practitioner post and one part time secondment post (22.5hrs) for 10-12 months. There may be the potential to increase the secondment post to full time hours. This post is open to applicants from nursing, social work and AHP backgrounds. This role will predominantly involve working closely with mental health teams within the unplanned care sector to support their work with autistic service users. This will include attending MDTs regularly to develop consistent working, offering support around care planning, sharing learning and support around specific issues to ultimately support the service user’s recovery. The post holder will work to professional and regulatory body codes, standards and guidance at all times ensuring that their practice is grounded in evidence based theoretical and practical knowledge. Main duties of the job
Core Functions To utilise specialist clinical skills to support, train and coach mental health teams in their work with autistic clients to promote recovery. To work independently, without direct supervision, prioritising workload and responding to service demands in a timely way. To recognise the need for and initiate where appropriate, advice of relevant specialisms. To liaise closely with members of the MDT within the team and wider services to ensure the right support is being offered to autistic service users. To employ excellent communication skills, both verbal and written to promote multi-disciplinary and interagency liaison and collaborative practice to broad range of audiences, including other professionals. To continuously evaluate the clinical effectiveness of the service by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures and participate in the development of the service. To maintain knowledge of current research and clinical developments, to participate in research/audit within service and to take part in relevant training to support the role. To supervise and oversee work delegated to band 4 team members. Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website. We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care. We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started. We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised. We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support. From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK. Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specification. Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation and guidance relevant to this sector. Educated to degree level or equivalent as required for registration with professional body. Registered with appropriate clinical professional body. Member of specialist interest group/network, regionally or nationally. Good working knowledge of relevant IT systems to own area of work. Able to enable effective communication approaches to non-face to face situational environments e.g. phone, video, email or remote consultation. Experience
Demonstrable experience of working with neurodiversity. Experience of training patients/carers and other healthcare staff. Be able to effectively Chair meetings. Evidence of suitable post-registration professional practice, in hospital or other healthcare setting. Experienced in recognising signs of neurodiversity in those who haven’t been diagnosed and signposting to relevant services. Skills and competence
Able to communicate effectively and sensitively with patients, colleagues and carers. Able to work as part of a wide ranging team. Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity. Experience in supervising and mentoring and teaching. Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date. This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter. Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you. If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential. We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both. IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis. If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. If you require sponsorship
to work in the UK, check you are eligible under the UKVI points based system online. Not all jobs we advertise are eligible for sponsorship. 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.
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