The closing date is 8th Jul 2026
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Job summary
This is an exciting time to join a busy and well-established multi-disciplinary health team supporting the health care needs of people with a learning disability.
You will play a vital role as part of the community learning disability team, within a forward thinking and innovative team. You will receive regular support and supervision and opportunities for professional development.
You will have a strong focus on Health Facilitation, which will include liaison and support with local GP surgeries, and wider networks delivering health promotion initiatives within the Trust and beyond.
As an enthusiastic and well-motivated professional, you will manage a small clinical caseload involving person centred assessment, clinical nursing intervention and co-ordination of services.
Part of your role will be to supervise junior members of staff, students on placements and to maintain a culture of service improvement which promotes quality and safety and striving to do better.
At present, the Trust is unable to offer Skilled Worker visa sponsorship for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.
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Main duties, tasks & skills required
- To lead on Health facilitation work within the integrated learning disability service. This will include liaising with and supporting GP surgeries, SCAS. Networking with colleagues across the trust and being involved in appropriate networks.
- To work as a member of an inter-disciplinary specialist health care team and maintain positive working relationships within that arena.
- Establish and maintain positive professional relationships with service users, family, and carers, other professionals as well as with voluntary and statutory agencies, using shared process that are developed where this is of benefit to the service user.
- Educate and provides information to patients/clients/family to improve knowledge of disease/illness, self-management prevention of complications and promotion of recovery.
- Assess patients/clients, plan develop/implement/evaluate programmes of care and carry out nursing procedures as appropriate and implement nursing interventions as highlighted within the assessment eg anger management, sex education and risk management
- To undertake specialist health assessment(s) and interventions in response to individual changing health needs, (eg around behaviours of concern/distress, mental wellbeing, and physical health).
- To promote and facilitate the service users' access to generic health services wherever possible.
- To use nursing knowledge and skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate health needs and actively promote health and wellbeing.
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About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
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Job description
Clinical and Professional
- To be an active participant in the process of referral, initial assessment, and allocation, in line with the team's agreed procedure.
- To act as a named worker for those allocated within our service that have high healthcare needs, but that may not have a nurse involved all the time, with the intention to prevent deterioration of health that may require an urgent referral or result in a hospital admission.
- Ensures use of nursing knowledge and skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patients/clients/family/health needs as well as actively promote health and wellbeing.
- Assess patients/clients, plan develop/implement/evaluate programmes of care and carry out nursing procedures as appropriate and implement nursing interventions as highlighted within the assessment eg anger management, sex education and risk management
- To undertake specialist health assessment(s) and interventions in response to individual changing health needs, (eg around behaviours of concern/distress, mental wellbeing, and physical health).
- To promote and facilitate the service users' access to generic health services wherever possible.
- To be competent in administering any medication, assisting or overseeing self-administration of medication as required. On occasions this may include the administration of injections and safe transit of medication.
- Evaluate clinical outcomes and reports variance to clinical pathway, protocols, or best practice guidelines.
- Complete assessments in line with the eligibility criteria for the provision of NHS Continuing Care, whereby the nurse's professional judgement will influence the provision of services.
- Contributes to effective discharge planning and/or referral processes to health care providers and support agencies to meet identified health needs.
- Applies diagnostic reasoning and professional judgement to nursing practice issues/decisions.
- Manage care of patients/clients on a day-to-day basis and when required manage care of all patients/clients in the absence of senior colleagues.
- To ensure the PBS model is used and that proactive approaches are care planned, monitored, and reviewed.
- Respond to crisis situations and unpredictable service user need across a range of situations.
- Fosters inquiry and critical thinking amongst colleagues to advance nursing practice and patient/client care to ensure the provision of positive patient/client outcomes and person-centred care.
- Accurately documents assessments of patients/client's health status, diagnosis and response to nursing and other interventions and treatments on the Trust Clinical Records System.
- Effectively manage the clinical care and clinical area through the implementation of clearly defined policies and procedures
- Act as an advocate on behalf of the individual service users and where possible promote self-advocacy, within the boundaries of the professional's role.
- To produce written reports relating to: assessments, interventions and at the point of closure. These should be made available to professionals, families/carers etc as well as ensuring that the report is produced in an understandable format for the person with a learning disability eg the use of pictorial aids. Some of the content may be of a highly sensitive nature.
- To ensure that minutes and reviews are recorded accurately and distributed across a range of agencies including to social services and commissioners.
- Educate and provides information to patients/clients/family to improve knowledge of disease/illness, self-management prevention of complications and promotion of recovery.
- Assist in the planning, design, development or identification of day/residential service provision for clients within their caseload.
- Identifies when a child may be at risk and knows how to refer to the local multi- agency safeguarding hub when appropriate.
- Identifies when a vulnerable adult may be at risk and knows how to refer to the local authority adult safeguarding service.
- To provide education to other professionals, carers, the independent sector, students, service user groups as appropriate both within learning disability services and the wider health profession and other primary care settings, mental health, probation and social services, colleges. This will include devising teaching packages e.g. epilepsy, mental health, continence etc.
- Role models culturally safe nursing practice and able to report poor practice when observed.
- Practices in accordance with legal, ethical, culturally safe, and professional standards including the Code of practice.
Communication
- Provides and receives complex, sensitive information to patients/relatives and colleagues and with empathy, persuasion and reassurance and ensure information is clearly understood, where there may be barriers to understanding.
- To exercise a highly proficient level of specialist communication with adults with learning disabilities who present barriers to understanding and/or articulating their needs to others.
- Ensures effective collaboration and communication with multidisciplinary team, patients, carers, co-ordinating care and fostering effective working relationships to achieve best health outcomes
- Actively listens, drawing out information and checks understanding.
- Empathises with others and considers their needs and feelings.
- Expresses information effectively and accurately, both orally and in writing, adjusting language and style to recipients and considers their frame of reference.
- Accurately records patient information, progress and current status ensuring changes in patient/clients' condition are shared with the multi-disciplinary team in a timely manner.
- Ensures patient confidentiality is always maintained.
- Promotes HIOWH NHS Foundation Trust as a centre of excellence for nursing practice through effective communication both internally and externally.
Knowledge, Education and Training
- Pro-actively participates in own performance development and review to identify learning needs and take necessary steps in order to reach personal/professional objectives.
- Attends educational opportunities relevant to nursing role and scope of practice.
- Provide day to day clinical supervision of junior colleagues and students including safeguarding supervision when appropriate.
- Participates in peer review/feedback and actively contributes to the provision of an effective learning environment. Share expertise and knowledge across the service via supervision and participation in Clinical Practice Groups.
- Actively participate in the induction of new staff in accordance with Trust policy and when required act as a 'buddy', mentor or preceptor and resource person within your team
- Be personally accountable for actions and omissions in your practice and have the ability to justify decisions taken.
- Provide opportunities for junior colleagues to assess their work and to provide them with clear, sensitive, and appropriate feedback that will help them improve and develop.
Actively participates in student placements and staff training within own competencies.
- Maintains and develops own clinical expertise and knowledge in speciality evidence-based nursing practice and personal portfolio to demonstrate fitness to practice in line with expectations for revalidation. Maintain an awareness of current developments and practice in the learning disability field and specialist interest areas eg mental health.
Quality and Service Improvements
- Identifies situations of clinical risk and takes appropriate action to ensure a safe environment for patients/clients/families and staff.
- Contributes to evidence-based nursing practice in speciality areas.
- Demonstrates commitment to quality improvements, risk management and resource utilisation participating in monitoring and evaluation activities including audit and research activities
- Provides input into clinical standards/protocols and policies and undertakes clinical audits as required.
- Evaluates the effectiveness, efficiency and safety of clinical practice contributing to service improvement initiatives.
- Participates in the implementation of nursing models of care appropriate to patient/client population needs.
- Contributes to and participates in HIOWH NHS Foundation Trust policy development providing own expertise where relevant and feedback on proposed polices based on relevant experience and expertise where applicable.
- Participates in case review and debriefing activities as required.
- Participates in group/unit discussions that review current practice.
- Promote patient and public involvement in activities designed to inform service improvement.
- Actively participate in clinical audit and service improvement activity to improve patient care and patient outcomes (privacy, dignity and duty of candour).
- Fully adheres to the HIOWH NHS Foundation Trust Integrated Clinical and Safeguarding Supervision policy along with Safeguarding Children and adult policies, and information sharing protocols to ensure the health and well-being of children and adults at risk.
- Familiarity with the requirements of the Mental Capacity Act and maintains MCA mandatory training.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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Person specification
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Qualifications
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Essential
- RNLD or RGN (with appropriate experience and knowledge) or equivalent essential - (other parts of the Nursing Register may be considered dependent upon relevant experience) currently registered with NMC
- Post registration, specialist training relevant to speciality
- Teaching Qualification, e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent
- Practice assessor/supervisor
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Experience
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Essential
- Experience of working with people with a learning disability within a range of learning disability service settings and in response to a variety of needs.
- Experienced in assessing and developing patient care plans and in developing and delivering care packages.
- Experienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patients
- Experience of MDT working
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision/assessing junior staff and students
- Experience of working with & providing training to staff teams.
- Evidence of recent CPD
- Evidence of developing policy, guidelines contributing to management of resources and leading service development initiatives
- Experience in Health Facilitation and promotion work.
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
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For help with your application, contact:
Patricia Reynolds
[email protected]
03001234019
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Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
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Band
Band 6
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Salary
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£39595.00 to £48117.00 Yearly
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Contract
Permanent
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Working pattern
Part-Time, Full-Time, Flexible Working
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Reference number
348-PSE-11704
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Job locations
Portsmouth Civic Offices
Guildhall Square
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO1 2GJ
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Attachments
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Job Description
Community Learning Disability and Health Facilitation Nurse JDPS.pdf – 288KB Opens in a new window
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Additional document 1
Learning Disability Healthcare Services profile for ILDS HIOW.doc – 123KB Opens in a new window
Converted File Learning Disability Healthcare Services profile for ILDS HIOW.pdf – 50KB Opens in a new window
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