Team Lead/Learning Disability Nurse (Children and Young People): Sponsorship Available

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Registered Nurse in Learning Disability (RNLD) to join the established CALDS (Child and Adolescent Learning Disability Service) which is a community based multi-disciplinary team within the Children, Young People (CYP) and Family Health Service. We are seeking a dynamic, compassionate, and experienced clinician to join our service in a Team Lead role for our tertiary response pathway (called Cyfuno). This is a key leadership role, providing clinical, operational, and strategic oversight to a specialist multidisciplinary team. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring that vulnerable children and young people receive timely, coordinated, and effective support during periods of crisis.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a forward thinking RNLD who has in-depth knowledge of factors effecting the health and wellbeing of children with LD, reasonable adjustments that may be required, behaviours that are challenging and complex needs, along with an interest in supporting the development and improvement of the service. The post holder will have the ability to support CYP and their families; delivering good quality, individualised and evidenced based care. The post holder will have the skills to work in a team and as an individual, be confident to work within their competencies and be able to adapt to the changing needs of the service. Roles will include leading on risk assessment, decision-making and crisis planning, liaising with Safeguarding and Risk & Governance Leads, chairing and contributing to multi-agency meetings for complex and high-risk children, driving quality improvement, audit, and governance processes, working with professional leads to manage workload, co-developing service delivery and outcome measures, and fostering strong inter-agency relationships to support integrated care. The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Nurse – Learning Disability (RNLD) oEvidence of current registration with Nursing & Midwifery Council. oMaster’s Degree or working towards

Desirable

  • Teaching & Assessing Certificate Qualification oChild Branch qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary /multi agency context. oPost registration experience of working with children and young people. oExperience/knowledge of community working. oExperience of working with individuals with complex health needs and those with challenging behaviour. oExperience of working with families. oExperience in writing practice policies/ protocols/guidelines

Desirable

  • Experience in writing practice policies, protocols & guidelines. oDemonstrate experience of change management.

Skills

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills (both written and oral) and ability to liaise with all disciplines/agencies. oAbility to assess children and young people with Learning Disabilities and develop and monitor care plans. oAbility to work within a complex system. oDemonstrate good teaching and assessing skills. oKnowledge of local, regional and national policies pertaining to practice. oMulti-disciplinary working oParticipation in the development and implementation of policies and practice. oAbility to priorities workload and manage competing demands oAbility to demonstrate a good knowledge of professional boundaries, and the ability to make decisions in accordance with your professional Code of Conduct.

Desirable

  • Good counselling and negotiation skills. oAbility to teach in a formal setting. oActive in the promotion of research based practice and clinical effectiveness. oPresentation skills oIT skills (PowerPoint/Excel) oWelsh speaker

Special Knowledge

Essential

  • Specialist knowledge of Children and Young People with Learning Disability

Desirable

  • Knowledge and experience in HR policy and procedures

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Good interpersonal and leadership skills to influence practice and service developments. oAbility to co-ordinate own workload oEnthusiastic about all aspects of work. oAbility to work under pressure. oFlexible and adaptable. oWorks well as part of multi-disciplinary and multiagency teams. oAbility to maintain self-motivation and motivate others. oAbility to travel between sites in a timely manner

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 1 October 2026

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