Job summary

We arelooking for a focussed, driven and forward-thinking system changer who has areal passion for making a difference to work with our children, young peopleand their families and carers in a person-centred way, to help bring theirvoices to life and achieve their outcomes. This exciting role is suitable for awide range of practitioners, qualified or unqualified (with suitabledemonstrable experience).

Successfulcandidates will:

Haverelevant experience of working with autistic children and young people and/or alearning disability

Bepassionate about working co-productively and have experience of contributing topersonalised care plans

Havea good understanding of working in partnership and developing positiverelationships

Beassertive to appropriately challenge the systems and processes when they arenot working

Beinnovative with the ability to think out of the box using creative solutions toprevent furtherescalation, family or placement breakdown and admission into an inpatientsetting

Base/Location: One of the 4 NHS South Yorkshire Bases (Westgate Barnsley, SovereignHouse: Doncaster, Riverside House, Rotherham or Eyre Street, Sheffield), withregular travel across South Yorkshire and including hybrid arrangements workingfrom home.

If you have used any Artificial Intelligence (AI) programmes, such as ChatGPT, to support your application, please declare this at the start of your supporting statement.

Main duties of the job

The focus of the job role is to ensure the system is cohesively working together to ensure children, young people, carers and families receive the right care and support, from the right person at the right time including:

Providing emotional and behavioral support around complex needs, ensuring clear communication with all parties involved. Advocating in care discussions, maintaining accurate records of interventions. Building positive relationships with various professionals to prioritise home and community-based care. Troubleshooting and challenging practices to ensure appropriate and necessary support within the community. Providing evidence-based challenges to practices and decisions, identifying areas for improvement. Facilitating transitions into and out of inpatient settings, coordinating care across health, education, and social care. Communicating sensitive and complex information regarding their care in an empathic and supportive way.

About us

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board oversees healthand social care for a population of people. Working through our 4 places, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield, we are building on thestrengths, capacity and knowledge of all those directly involved with our localcommunities to deliver our four key aims of Improving outcomes inpopulation health and healthcare; Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experienceand access; Enhancing productivity and value for money; and Helping the NHSsupport broader social and economic development.

Our near 1,000 staff are committed to addressing the broaderhealth, public health, and social care needs of the population across SouthYorkshire through our values of One Team, Empowered and Innovative. We work as a key partner with theIntegrated Care Partnership (ICP) of health and care providers within the SouthYorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to collectively deliver health and careservices that meet the needs of the local population. In total there are 186 GPpractices in the region, 72,000 health and social care professionals workingacross seven NHS trusts and four local authorities, and a further 6,000voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations. We workalongside all these colleagues through local councils, our VCSEpartners and other partners to address health inequalities and widerdeterminants of health in South Yorkshire.

South Yorkshire ICB is a Disability Confident Employer

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Learning Disabilities and Autism Children &Young People Navigator, you will play a pivotal role in supportingchildren and young people (CYP) with complex needs and their families.

Yourprimary responsibility is ensuring the voice of CYP and their families arecaptured and heard and you will troubleshoot to ensure necessary support is inplace, ensuring that other professionals and services work cohesively aroundthe CYP to prevent further escalation, family or placement breakdown andadmission into an inpatient setting.

You willfacilitate emotional and behavioural support, promoting effectivecommunication, and foster positive relationships.

A key part of the role will be to navigate complex systems, challengethe status quo where required including any potential admissions to hospital toensure that all other options have been exhausted.

The role demands a keen understanding of health and social care andeducation systems, coupled with the ability to coordinate multi-agency effortsfor the benefit of CYP.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of working with C&YP with Learning Disabilities and C&YP who are Neurodiverse.

Skills and Competencies

Essential

Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales. Ability to measure outcomes based on agreed goals and to ensure this is fed into the overall evaluation of the services Demonstrable communication and influencing skills with the ability to remain calm, effective and efficient during difficult situations. Ability and willingness to handle confidential information without compromising confidentiality or trust. Able to deal with challenging people and to cope with confidential and sensitive information. Methodical approach and attention to detail. Advanced keyboard skills, use of a range of software.

Knowledge and Understanding

Essential

Experience of participating or understanding of Care Education and Treatment Reviews. Ability to work with complex cases and demonstrate empathy whilst gathering key information to inform agreed goals and outcomes for the C&YP. Demonstrating experience of dealing with a wide range of stakeholders and providing information and advice.

Desirable

Knowledge of Education, Health and Social Care sector. Previous experience in similar role in a healthcare or public sector environment.

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to a degree level or equivalent qualification or level of experience. Committed to personal and professional development.

Attributes

Essential

Professional calm and efficient manner. Compassionate and ability to demonstrate empathy Well-developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills. Flexible and to adaptable to changing and challenging circumstances. Works well as part of a team. Fosters good working relationships and values difference.