Practice Consultant - Neurodiverse Children and Young People Transition 18 - 25 yrs

Role Responsibility

Practice Consultant: Transition 18 - 25yrs

Are you a motivated Health, Education or Social Care Professional with a good range of experience in the arena of supporting Young People with complex neurodiverse conditions and are you looking for a new challenge and wanting to develop/enhance your experience working at strategic and system level?

NHS Kent and Medway in partnership with Kent and Medway County Councils have already invested and appointed five Practice Consultants, to support the mobilisation and development of their Designated Key Worker Programme. The current vacant Practice Consultant role is an opportunity to work systemically with young people,18-25yrs, and their families. Supporting community health, education, and social care teams to improve co-ordination of their service response through timely discharge planning, interventions, and risk assessment. Reducing risks of admission to specialist hospitals or forensic intervention and preventing further escalation of risk for those young people displaying behaviour that challenges.

This is a system support role and would best suit practitioners who are currently an experienced professional in their field of practice looking to extend their skill set working with 18-25 years and would enjoy a new challenge working within the transition through early adulthood arena.

Benefits

Kent County Council believe in supporting their staff and therefore offer the below benefits alongside this rewarding role.

• A competitive salary, dependant on experience
• Minimum 28 days paid holiday, bank holidays
• Pension
• Access to physical and mental well being support
• Seasonal benefits and staff socials
• Possible home working and flexible working
• A robust supervision structure, both individually and peer supervision.
• Varied learning and development opportunities, opportunity to acquire CEU’s and UK SBA enrollment.

This role will be a 2-year fixed term contract with expressions for secondment welcomed.

Secondment applicants will need to have the consent of their employing organisation.

This is a full-time post that can offer flexible working arrangements.

Quote from one of our current Practice Consultant’s

“This role has provided me with opportunity to consolidate practice and gain experience of working at a more strategic level in identification of system blockages and development of innovative ways to work across health, ICB and Education to facilitate change.  I am frequently given opportunity to work creatively , be part of exciting projects and influence change.  The role provides a different approach in development of my coaching and mentoring skill;  supporting health, education, and social care practitioners to understand the complex systems they are navigating and how to apply the relevant legislation”.  M.Kinsella

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service and a relevant professional qualification as well as up to date registration with the appropriate professional body.

Contact Details

For more information about the role, please contact Michelle Kinsella by email at michelle.kinsella@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.