Community Rehabilitation Nurse/ Allied Health Professional (AHP) 12m Fixed term Contract

The role of the role of the Community rehabilitation Nurse/ Allied Health Professional (AHP) is to provide high quality, evidence based services, offering virtual advice, consultation and brain injury education to children, young people and families across the UK.  

You will support community service provision and lead on the design and delivery of virtual/ Telehealth Hub advice, consultation and brain injury education. You will work closely with external partners such as major trauma centres, schools and charities to develop a service which offers responsive and effective advice to children and young people with acquired brain injury. The offer will work together with the new launch of The Children’s Trust digital transformation resources and the Children’s Trust strategic ambition to reach every child in the UK with a brain injury.   

Staff benefits include shuttle bus, and more… Read more below.

Role Requirements

• Lead a virtual offer of advice, consultation and brain injury education for children and young people with acquired brain injuries, across the UK 
• Explore digital platforms e.g. Telehealth to deliver services in an accessible way across the UK. 
• Provide leadership across the community virtual services offer.  
• Be a positive and inspirational role model for all team members. 
• Work closely with all members of the Multi-professional Team, as well as the child and family, to provide a fully integrated approach to the overall management of the child.   
• Provide clinical cover across the service during episodes of staff shortage/heavy workload, in order to ensure effective service delivery. 
• Represent the Therapy Team and The Children’s Trust when appropriate, deputising for the Head of Therapies as required. 
• Work closely with the placements & commissioning team to identify children and young people who may benefit from The Children’s Trust community services rehabilitation packages.   
• Monitor data and enquires to the service from digital platforms e.g. the brain injury hub, chatbot, TCT website.  
• Develop and maintain a single point of access and virtual service provision offering advice, signposting and brain injury education to families and professionals across the UK. 
• Demonstrate impact of virtual advice-based services and support the community therapy team to manage demand and throughput of requests.  
• Support the operationalisation of a virtual offer for children and young people across the UK. 
• Collate data to demonstrate meaningful outcomes when offering a virtual advice based service e.g. improving information sharing across multi-agency teams, improved access to community services, school engagement etc.  
• Maintain overview of the community rehabilitation services long term register and follow up. 
• Deputise for the Head of Therapies at TCT admission and discharge meetings.    
• Devise and deliver advice based virtual packages of support and brain injury education.
• Works collaboratively across multi-professional teams, fostering positive working relationships, communication and coordination to achieve meaningful outcomes for children and their families.  

Interview Date: TBC

If you would like to discuss the role, please contact the Recruitment & Compliance Team, on 01737 365 880 or email: recruitment@thechildrenstrust.org.uk

For more information, a copy of the candidate briefing pack and application form please click here.

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Terms and Conditions

PLEASE NOTE: The Children's Trust Application Form MUST be completed and submitted, for your application to be considered. As part of the shortlisting process, gaps in employment will be examined and further explored during the interview process. 

Strictly no agencies, please.

As we often receive high levels of applicants for our roles, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interviews. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted for an interview on this occasion.

About Us

The Children’s Trust is the UK’s leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.

Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom.

Staff Benefits

The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including our staff flexible benefits platform, on-site nursery, free eye tests, enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms and time off for gender reassignment.

We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service.

Other benefits include free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable), Teacher’s pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Rehabilitation of Offenders

Many roles at The Children’s Trust are exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020) and as such, are subject to an Enhanced DBS check.  Successful applicants will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, which will disclose all unspent convictions and adult cautions and any spent convictions or adult cautions that would not be protected.  The exceptions to this are our retail roles within The Children’s Trust shops, which are subject to Basic DBS checks which will disclose unspent convictions or adult cautions.

Equal Opportunity Employer

To help us achieve our ambition to give children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability the opportunity to live the best life possible, we want to accurately reflect the UK’s diverse population. We want equity, diversity, and inclusion to be at the heart of everything we do, and our people, services, and culture to reflect the diverse needs of all. Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and create an inclusive culture. We have networks across the organisation working to ensure that these aims are met - including an LGBTQIA2S+ group, Ethnic Diversity Group, and Spark – our broad EDI group. Read more about our EDI work here. We welcome applications from all who share our ambition regardless of background. We will strive to ensure that any reasonable adjustments are made in respect of interview and working arrangements.

Online Searches

In accordance with statutory safeguarding and child protection guidance, online searches will be conducted for shortlisted candidates before interview. The online searches will be conducted by a person who is independent of the interview and selection process and will focus on relevant information returned via searches of the candidate’s name (and variations thereof). Social media searches will be limited to professional platforms such as LinkedIn. Any concerns relating to suitability for work with children and young people will be forwarded to the interview panel, for discussion during the interview.