Children's Speech and Language Therapist - Peterborough, United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire & Peterborough

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Job overview

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Band Learning Disability or Mental Health Nurse to join our Neurodevelopmental Team.

This post is to provide an enhanced service of mental health aftercare to support the return of a young person from an inpatient setting to a specialist home in the local area. The successful applicant will act as care coordinator and provide advice, support and guidance to an independent care provider in the specialist home for a young person with LD, Autism and challenging behaviours. In addition, the post holder will maintain links between the CAMHS team and external agencies and the young person's family.

The post holder will be supported by the Neurodevelopmental CAMHS Team and our LD Consultant Psychiatrist. The team is a multidisciplinary team and we work with young people with a diagnosed moderate to severe Learning Disability and provide assessment and treatment for Autism and ADHD. 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 and work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure at times and to work within the young person's home alongside the care provider for the majority of the commissioned hours.

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 multidisciplinary 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.

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 disabled people and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

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