B6: Clinical Nurse Practitioner - Intensive Support Team (Shropshire)

Job overview

We are seeking a highly motivated and dedicated Clinical Nurse Practitioner to join our Shrewsbury based Intensive Support Team in Shropshire. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced RNLD or suitably experienced nurse. The role requires a professional who is enthusiastic, dynamic and able to demonstrate excellent inter-personal communication skills and a determined commitment to person-centred, multi-disciplinary working to achieve quality of life outcomes. This post offers the opportunity to work in a highly focused, intensive, and supportive way with people with learning disabilities who may present with complex challenging behaviours and/or mental health needs.

Main duties of the job

The aim of the Intensive Support Team (IST) is to provide specialist and intensive multi-disciplinary support in the community for people who have learning disabilities; there is a core functionality role within the team in addition to clinicians’ individual specialist roles. Experience of working with people with a learning disability is essential. You will also preferably have experience of working with people who have complex needs, for example those associated with mental and physical ill health, autism and behaviours that challenge. The ideal candidate will be somebody who is passionate about service delivery to and for people with learning disabilities, can work creatively and innovatively to secure good outcomes, and embrace new ways of working within a Positive Behaviour Support Framework.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will work closely with your IST colleagues to support a defined, shared caseload of adults who may be at risk of placement breakdown, including individuals in transition from children’s services, specialist inpatient services or moving between community placements. You will be using flexible, creative, multidisciplinary approaches and make a significant contribution to the continued development of high quality local services in Shropshire for people who have a learning disability. Y our role will include providing person-centred assessment, to advise and implement clinical interventions based on an MDT formulation. On occasion this may involve planned out of hours work, with access to on-call support and supervision, if the needs of an individual require it. You will work collaboratively alongside the Specialist Community Learning Disability Teams, in-patient services and statutory / independent sector provider services. You can expect specialist clinical training and updates, regular support and supervision and professional leadership.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.