Overview
You will be part of an ambitious multi-disciplinary team, offering personalised support and guidance to equip, enable and empower our students to better advocate for themselves, as far as is possible as they Prepare for Adulthood.
Based in Lancaster, you will travel occasionally within the Northwest of England to other College sites. As a Specialist Post-16 college we welcome many of the most complex and vulnerable special school leavers to the college. We have a history steeped in complex care and focused on high quality care. You will support the pre-entry planning processes, work with a team of highly experienced care and therapy colleagues, as well as educational, technology and positive behaviour colleagues to establish efficient and effective person-centred care plans for all activities of living, always taking preferences into account and finding ways to improve dignity and respect for students.
- Have oversight of the health and care needs of students at the college
- Undertake robust evidence-based planning to ensure offers made meet the needs of the student, and can be delivered by college staff
- Ensure compliance with NMC and HCPC guidance in ensuring delated tasks are supported through well-planned and appropriate training and competency assessment as appropriate
- Operate as a member of a multi-disciplinary team of education, health and care professionals, taking the lead where necessary and appropriate to any given situation
- Maintain currency and have the working knowledge, skills and behaviors of a practicing nursing professional
- Develop expertise and seek further information around often complex and rare conditions through active and self-directed study
- Work with Care Managers and colleagues to plan, arrange and/or deliver training to staff
- Have oversight of supporting people with enteral feeds, supporting people with complex epilepsy and a wide range of long-term health conditions, some of which can be quite rare.
- Have an empathy and understanding of people with learning disabilities, and have or be prepared to develop the skills necessary to work in partnership with students
- Acknowledge and respond with positivity, professionalism, and candour to the needs of the parents and carers as those who believe they have the best knowledge about a young person
- Support the longer-term transitions for students in the community, supported living and adult health and care services
- Promote, encourage, and celebrate self-advocacy whilst maintaining an understanding of health and safety-first measures in health and care
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