SPECIALIST LEARNING DISABILITIES DIRECTORATE
Band 5 - Community Learning Disability Nurse
Fixed Term 18 months – Full Time 37.5hrs
South Staffordshire CLDT
We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated Band 5 Community Learning Disability Nurse to work within our South Staffordshire Community Learning Disability Team. We are looking for a Registered Learning Disability Nurse who is enthusiastic, caring, compassionate, dynamic and fully committed to multi-disciplinary working.
We aim to provide high quality, community based, integrated services for adults with learning disabilities. Previous experience of working with people with learning disabilities is essential. Access to a car is also essential.
The post holder would work as part of a multi-professional team consisting of Occupational Therapists, Psychiatrists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists and Speech and Language Therapists. They would also work collaboratively with mainstream services, statutory and independent sector services. The post holder will work with people with complex healthcare needs within their own homes or residential care homes, day services and other community and hospital settings. The ideal candidate will be somebody who is passionate about providing high quality service to people with learning disabilities in community settings and someone who can work creatively to secure good outcomes, embracing the values shared by this friendly and supportive team.
The post holder will have responsibility for providing specialised interventions for adults with learning disabilities who have complex critical and substantial healthcare needs in conjunction with their families and carers. The post holder will have responsibility for the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for an identified caseload ensuring provision for a needs-lead service.
The post holder will deliver care through an agreed learning contract to assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of service users.
The post holder will work in liaison with the multidisciplinary team and may have a designated area of skill and knowledge as agreed in line with local need. The post holder will have a duty in ensuring the principles of ‘Valuing People’, and with the philosophy of individualised client care, clinical practice will be developed to meet client need in a variety of settings without supervision.
The post holder will aspire to deliver a quality, needs led service and provide support to other Community Team colleagues and to members of other agencies
Come and work with us at our award-winning NHS Trust, leading the way for trying new and better ways of working to help improve life for our local communities.
We have around 9,000 staff who provide physical and mental healthcare, support for people with learning disabilities, and adult social care across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Shropshire, and Telford & Wrekin. We also run regional and national services, including help for new parents (perinatal care), eating disorders, forensic services, sexual health, and support for people in prison with mental health, drug, or alcohol problems.
We offer great career development for both clinical and non-clinical roles, with ongoing training and support to help you learn and grow.
We are ‘United in our Uniqueness’ and committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels welcome and can be themselves, no matter their background or identity. We want our staff to feel supported and valued, and we aim to build a team that reflects the communities we serve. Together, we can make sure every voice is heard, and every difference is respected.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Main duties and responsibilities
Clinical
1. To be responsible for a designated caseload as agreed by the Team Manager/ Clinical Lead.
2. To utilise nursing knowledge and skills in assessing health care needs of people with learning disabilities in a range of environments to identify their health-care needs and implement interventions as required.
3. Any interventions must be within the post holder’s scope of clinical practice ensuring that training is maintained and skills are in line with current guidance.
4. To evaluate the outcome of nursing interventions to ensure that care plan objectives have been met and that health gains have been achieved.
5. To provide appropriate training as required in relation to associated conditions for people with learning disabilities.
6. To work in partnership with colleagues and other professionals to provide specialist nursing assessment skills, knowledge and advice in order to formulate and implement comprehensive care plans designed to meet service users assessed needs. This may include contributing to Continuing Health Care Assessments, Complex Case Panels and the Transforming Care agenda.
7. To assist and be proactive in health promotion for people with learning disabilities ensuring inclusion into mainstream services in line with national and local policy and guidance. This will include providing training and education to service users in liaison with Health Facilitator colleagues.
8. Where identified and required within the plan of care, to monitor prescribed medication including the effects/side effects of medication as part of the individual service users overall treatment plans.
Professional
9. To practice within the NMC Code.
10. To provide verbal and written reports for team meetings, review meetings, adult safeguarding meetings and other meetings as and when required, contributing a nursing perspective to the planning and delivery of care.
11. To ensure adherence to Midland Partnership Foundation Trust Health Records Policy and use the trusts electronic recording systems.
12. To adhere to Trust/Directorate Policies, guidance, strategies and local agendas in their area of practice supporting the corporate agenda.
13. To use evidence based research and to apply the principles of clinical governance to nursing practice in order to deliver high quality, ethically sound, user focused services.
14. Attendance at Professional Nurse meeting within the directorate and Trust as required.
15. To have a working knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 and Health Action planning process and support service users, relatives/carers/advocates and other agencies through its application through this process.
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn
