Vacancies

Community Learning Disabilities Nurse Specialist - Band 6

Main Responsibility

General

• To actively promote the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities through a range of specialist clinical and education interventions.
• To provide specialist advice on a range of learning disability health issues.
• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team with other specialist health professionals across community and acute services, local authority colleagues, care providers and families.
• To be professionally accountable for a designated complex community nursing caseload. 
   This may be for providing specialist advice or for care management of clients who have been assessed as eligible for Continuing Health Care (CHC) funding or are health funded due to being under Section 117 of the Mental Health Act.
• To supervise designated staff.
• As a member of the multi-disciplinary team, support and contribute to the development of the learning disability service in accordance with the objectives and principles of Valuing People Now 2010 and other relevant government policies and guidelines.
• Work in accordance with relevant national frameworks and guidance for the provision of NHS care.
   These may include; Care and Treatment Reviews (CTRs), NHS Continuing Healthcare, NHS-funded Nursing Care: July 2009 (revised 2012) and Transforming Care 2015.

Patient Care:

• Provide expert health advice and interventions to service users and their families/carers.

• Manage a designated Community Nursing caseload professionally.

• Facilitate healthcare for individuals with learning disabilities and collaborate with primary and secondary health teams.

• Assess, plan, and evaluate health needs using specialist skills and knowledge.

• Support individuals with behaviors of concern through appropriate assessments and interventions.

• Ensure informed consent by providing necessary information to clients and carers.

• Develop individual care and risk management plans based on the physical and emotional needs of service users.

• Promote independence and empower individuals to make informed healthcare decisions.

• Respond swiftly to service user needs with minimal supervision.

• Collaborate with families and carers to create personalized Care Plans.

• Promote healthy lifestyles through education and accessible information.

• Utilize effective communication skills to explain complex health issues.

• Provide therapeutic group work on issues like assertiveness, relationships, and sexual health.

Training and Development:

• Supervise and support Assistant Practitioners and Health Support Workers, conducting appraisals and development reviews.

• Mentor learning disability nursing students and Student Nurse Associates during clinical placements.

• Collaborate with other specialties to provide care, education, and training to professionals.

Other Factors:

• Community-based role with home and day service visits, often requiring travel in rural areas (driver's license essential).

• Ability to work independently, manage disruptions in open-plan offices, and concentrate on tasks.

• Support service users with long-term or deteriorating conditions, showing empathy and handling emotional situations.

• Navigate challenging behavior and mental health difficulties, resolving conflicts as needed.

• Flexibility to handle diverse and demanding situations.

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

The Ideal Candidate

Essential:

• Registered Nurse (RNLD/RNMH/RN)
  • Post registration experience
  • In-depth experience of working with adults with a learning disability
  • Working within a multi-disciplinary team
  • Leadership experience
  • Teaching experience
  • Setting and monitoring standards of care
  • Case management experience
  • Experience within a wide range of patient/client care groups
  • To be able to communicate with people using a range of mediums.
  • To be able to work flexibly and sensitively alongside carers and families
  • Wide range of interpersonal and communication skills
  • Competence in a wide range of nursing skills
  • To be able to write clear and concise reports, care plans and risk assessments
  • I.T. literate
  • Skills in preparing and presenting teaching sessions
  • Undertake specific and or complex nursing tasks
  • Ability to reflect on own practice and others
  • A good standard of written and spoken English is required to be able to undertake the relevant duties.
  • Good time management skills
  • Ability to work in open plan environments

 Desirable 

• Leadership and management training 

• Teaching and assessing in clinical practice

• Positive behaviour support training               

• Further qualifications relevant to community nursing e.g. post graduate community qualification, specialist areas of expertise e.g. ABA, desensitisation
• Community LD team experience
• Experience of working to the Continuing Health Care Framework, Care Programme Approach framework, Positive Behaviour approach

Other Job-Related Requirements

• Willing to work in other areas of the HCRG as and when required to do so.
• Full valid driving licence for the UK
• Access to a car for use at work

Package Description

As a Community Learning Disabilities Nurse Specialist you will be part of our valued team in our County Wide; Chippenham, Warminster, Salisbury, Marlborough, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• £37,338 - £44,962 (Band 6 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

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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