Job Introduction
Are you passionate about providing person-centred care and making a tangible difference in the lives of adults with learning disabilities and/or autism? The Learning Disability and Autism division in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) has an exciting opportunity to join our innovative and caring Locality Service. We are committed to enabling the people we support to have choice and control in their lives, helping them reach their potential as individuals and valued community members.
Our Complex Health Needs Service (CHNS) is a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team of specialist healthcare professionals delivering high-quality assessments, advice, therapeutic interventions, and support to adults with learning disabilities, complex health needs, and autism. We also extend our services to young people with complex needs who do not meet the criteria for LD or Autism.
We are looking for a Community Nurse for Learning Disabilities & Epilepsy to join our dedicated team of LD Nurses. In this role, you will support adults with learning disabilities and epilepsy, their families, and social care providers in managing epilepsy safely within the community. You will play a crucial part in facilitating epilepsy reviews, care plans, and contributing to the dementia pathway, along with a hospital liaison role. While this role does not involve epilepsy diagnosis, it offers a rewarding opportunity for those keen on developing their expertise in epilepsy care, with support and opportunities for continuous professional development (CPD).
Main Responsibility
- Undertake specialist LD nursing health assessments; this will involve development, implementation and evaluation of care plans for adults with Learning Disabilities and epilepsy.
- Support service users, families and carers to access services and carry out advice, monitor and report outcomes.
- Link with GP / Neurology to assist and support in the delivery of epilepsy management and review through the Annual Health Check programme.
- Epilepsy monitoring and reviews, focussing on maintianing and updating epilepsy care plans and risk assssments.
- Referrals will have a formal diagnosis. Responsibility for medical assessment / changes will be with the GP/ Epilepsy Neurology Consultant / Hospital Epilepsy Nurse Specialist.
- Implement care plans which achieve better quality of life outcomes for individuals and their carers.
For a full list of job responsibilities please see the attached job description.
The Ideal Candidate
- Nursing qualification recognised by NMC
- Current registration with HCPC / NMC
- 2 years post qualification experience
- Experience of learning disabilities, complex health and working in a community setting
- Working knowledge of epilepsy
For a full list of person specifications please see the attached job description.
Package Description
As a Community Nurse for Learning Disabilities & Epilepsy, you’ll be part of our valued team at Twerton.
You will feel valued as a Community Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £37,338 - £44,962 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- 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 a 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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