Community Learning Disability Nurse Practitioner

Job summary

Join our Specialist Health Community Learning Disability Team as a Band 5 Community Learning Disability Nurse Practitioner and make a real difference to peoples lives every day.

You will work in a strengths-based, person-centred way across key nursing functions including Continuing Health Care, Intensive Assessment & Treatment and Primary Care Liaison helping to reduce health inequalities and improve outcomes for people with learning disabilities.

Working autonomously with support from senior colleagues, you will complete holistic assessments and formulations, develop and review care plans, deliver evidence-based interventions, and advocate for reasonable adjustments so people can access mainstream health services.

This is a varied community role with strong multi-agency working partnering with families, carers and professionals, contributing to training and service development, and using your clinical judgement to manage risk and support complex needs. If you are an RNLD (or equivalent registered nurse) with experience of working with people with learning disabilities, wed love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Promote services in line with current local and national policy & guidance for people with Learning Disabilities, which promotes the rights and inclusion of this client group.
• Undertake all aspects of practice as an autonomous practitioner and report to the Band 6 accordingly, including professional and legal accountability for own work within an agreed policy framework.
• To act as a point of contact for family, carers and other professionals during the service users care pathway.
• Facilitate open and easy access to hospital and other mainstream health services for people with learning disabilities.
• Develop effective and collaborative working with healthcare and multi-agency colleagues.
• To assist in identifying and meeting the training needs and providing specialist and nursing advice when appropriate / required.

Job responsibilities

About Devon Partnership Trust

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.