Job Introduction
A Rare Opportunity to Lead, Influence and Make a Real Difference
Are you an experienced Learning Disabilities Nurse looking for the next step in your career? Do you want a role where you can combine clinical leadership, specialist practice and service development while making a genuine difference to people's lives?
As an Advanced Nurse Specialist - Continuing Healthcare, you will play a key role in leading complex assessments, coordinating care for individuals with highly complex needs and supporting a dedicated team of CHC nurses across Wiltshire. This is a rare opportunity to join a respected specialist service where your expertise will influence care decisions, shape service delivery and improve outcomes for adults with learning disabilities.
With a flexible hybrid working model, county-wide remit and opportunities to lead on complex clinical work, this role offers both professional challenge and the chance to make a lasting impact.
Base: Flexible across Marlborough, Chippenham, Warminster or Salisbury
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Working Pattern: Hybrid working model (approximately 60/40), dependent on individual and service needs.
Package Description
As an Advanced Nurse Specialist, you will be part of our valued team in our Learning Disabilities & Autism Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £49,387 - £56,515 FTE (Band 7 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Lead, Influence and Improve Lives Across Wiltshire
Our Learning Disabilities Service is dedicated to promoting equal access to mainstream health services while providing specialist assessment, intervention and consultation for people with learning disabilities. Working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team, we collaborate closely with Wiltshire Council, primary care services, specialist providers and the Integrated Care Board to deliver outstanding care and improve outcomes for individuals with complex needs.
How You'll Lead and Make a Difference
- Lead and support a dedicated team of Continuing Healthcare Nurses, providing clinical guidance, supervision and professional support.
- Coordinate and oversee complex CHC assessments, reviews and eligibility processes to ensure people receive the right care and support.
- Manage complex caseloads, helping individuals with learning disabilities achieve the best possible health and care outcomes.
- Build strong relationships with families, carers and partner organisations to deliver person-centred care.
- Support and develop team members, sharing expertise and encouraging professional growth.
- Participate in multidisciplinary meetings and safeguarding processes to advocate for individuals with complex needs.
- Help ensure care packages remain effective, safe and responsive to changing needs.
- Contribute to service improvement initiatives that enhance outcomes and experiences for service users.
What You'll Bring to the Team
We're looking for a compassionate and experienced nurse who is passionate about improving the lives of people with learning disabilities. You'll be a confident leader, skilled clinician and collaborative team player who enjoys supporting others and driving high-quality, person-centred care.
Essential Criteria
- Current NMC registration as a Registered Nurse.
- Significant post-registration experience working with people with learning disabilities and complex needs.
- Extensive knowledge and practical experience of the NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) National Framework.
- Experience completing CHC Checklists, Decision Support Tools (DSTs), reviews and complex eligibility assessments.
- Proven experience managing complex cases and coordinating large care packages.
- Experience leading, supervising and supporting staff.
- Strong clinical assessment, risk management and decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication, influencing and partnership-working abilities.
- Experience working within multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams.
- Knowledge of safeguarding, the Mental Capacity Act, Best Interests processes and positive behavioural support.
- Ability to manage a varied and demanding workload effectively.
Desirable Criteria
- Leadership or management qualification.
- Experience contributing to service development or quality improvement initiatives.
- Experience working with Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and local authority partners.
- Knowledge of commissioning processes and care package monitoring.
- Experience chairing complex case meetings or safeguarding discussions.
For full details of the role,responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the attached JobDescription.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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