Clinical Nurse Specialist Community Child Health

We are delighted to offer a rewarding opportunity for a committed and forward-thinking registered children's nurse to join our Community Child Health Team as a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS). This is one of three newly created positions at the heart of our paediatric neurodevelopmental pathway. You will be working within a vibrant multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team, leading nurse-led Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment (EHCNA) clinics, Paediatric Assessment Reviews, neurodevelopmental assessments, and contributing to the development of our Waiting Well offer. We are seeking an enthusiastic and confident nurse with a passion for community care and neurodevelopmental practice. We are especially keen to receive applications from those with backgrounds in CAMHS or learning disabilities, as this is a key area we are committed to strengthening within our service. Your expertise in behaviour, emotional, or learning-needs-focused care will add invaluable depth to our pathway and help shape a more responsive and holistic offer for children and young people. If you bring transferable skills from health visiting, school health, or supporting children with complex needs, we'd be interested in hearing from you too as we are committed to supporting staff to grow in this specialist role., As Clinical Nurse Specialist, Community Child Health, you will,

• Deliver high-quality, nurse-led clinics and assessments for children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism, global developmental delay, and learning disabilities.
• independently conduct comprehensive health needs assessments of children and young people with complex needs across various areas of the Child Health Service. This includes performing developmental assessments, collecting detailed neurodevelopmental histories, and observing social interaction and behaviour in nursery or school settings. Clinic assignments will be matched to the competencies of the postholder, and all necessary training will be completed according to clinical practice standards
• Work collaboratively with consultants, allied health professionals, and wider multi-agency teams to ensure timely, coordinated care.
• Act as a central point of contact for families, offering guidance on therapeutic, educational, and social support services.
• Contribute to service development, clinical audits, and quality improvement initiatives.
Working for our organisation Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations: 1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development 2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability 3. Improving the experience of staff with disability 4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development 5. Making equalities mainstream,
• To be responsible for undertaking nurse led neurodevelopmental clinics for CYP of various ages and levels of need
• To support the MDT to ensure that assessments are completed promptly and to a consistent standard
• To serve as a lead specialist, demonstrating a high level of clinical expertise, specialised advice and training and support to professionals, colleagues and the wider MDT
• To work as a member of the MDT to support Consultants and Allied Health Professionals with specialist assessment pathways, e.g. Autism
• To take sole and joint responsibility for the client and procedure during assessment, diagnostic and therapeutic interventional procedures to ensure a successful patient-based outcome within community settings
• To conduct clinical audits and research in their specialty
• To support quality improvement initiatives to ensure excellent clinical care and outcomes
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview. As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce. Please note that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most. Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities. To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission. Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments. LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country. We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.