Band 6 Community Nurse Frailty and Dementia

Job overview

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Community Nurse Frailty and Dementia– Learning Disabilities – Band 6 (part time - 30 hours)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced and highly motivated individual to join community city wide service within the Learning Disabilities Service.

Due to the nature of the role this is open to Registered Nurses Learning Disability who have experience in supporting service users with frailty and or dementia.

The role involves providing specialist support and guidance to adults with learning disabilities who are frail and/or diagnosed with dementia and supporting their carers. The successful candidate will provide clinical services through the effective management of an active caseload.

You will be an experienced and flexible individual with excellent communication skills and a passion for multi disciplinary team working.

Main duties of the job

To work within the framework of a multi-disciplinary team to provide support and guidance to adults with learning disabilities and their carers.

To work within the framework of health facilitation (level one and two).

To co-ordinate a clinical service under the supervision of Senior Community Nurses.

To provide support to adults with learning disability who have dementia and/or frailty.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To manage and co-ordinate a caseload under the supervision of the Senior Community Nurse.

To focus on individual health outcomes for people with learning disabilities and offer support to access health services.

To promote service development and planning within mainstream services supporting them to achieve Valuing People targets and examine initiatives to reduce health inequalities.

To assess, plan, implement, evaluate and review programmes of care and ensure measurable outcomes and discharges are efficiently and effectively carried out.

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.