Community Learning Disability Nurse

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the South Worcestershire Community Learning Disabilities Team as a Band 6 Community Learning Disability Nurse. In the role you will have the opportunity to work alongside an experienced group of Learning Disability Nurses, Psychologists, Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapists and Psychiatrists.

The successful applicant will become part of a committed team who are passionate in ensuring that individuals with a learning disability receive equitable health care, alongside managing an effective caseload and maintaining regular visits to service users and their carers.

The team is currently involved in exciting service developments, including RcPsych QNLD Accreditation, STOMP, Dementia pathways, and transitions pathways to better meet the needs of individuals with learning disabilities.

Regular individual and group supervision and support will be provided as well as on-going CPD and training to help further develop your skills and competencies in this specialist field.

Applicants must read the attached guidance notes before submitting your application for full understanding of Trust requirements.

Main duties of the job

Actively manage an effective caseload, maintaining regular visits for service users.

Facilitate/teach effective systems to carers to enable the transfer of skills required for the management of service users’ healthcare needs.

Facilitate Health Action Plans for each service user on caseload, to enable access to the full range of community care services available.

Promote and maintain good working relationships and systems of effective communication through liaison with service users, carers, and other professionals/agencies.

Maintain accurate and up to date clinical records in line with Trust/NMC standards of practice.

Record activity to meet the requirements of the Electronic Patient Recording System.

Attend team, MDT and multi-agency meetings as appropriate.

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Ensure the process of referral, assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care is efficiently and effectively delivered with clear quality outcomes.

Promote the values and principles of person-centred planning approaches, maintaining effective continuity of care.

Undertaking specialist healthcare assessments, ensuring referral evaluation, data analysis and intervention planning is identified to enable service access.

Implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of therapeutic nursing interventions based on a comprehensive assessment using a recognised nursing model of care.

Put patient care at the heart of the work to improve health care outcomes and service delivery.

Deliver the highest standards and quality outcomes possible.

Encourage others to develop themselves and the service through improvement, innovation, and continuous development.

Joint working with others, e.g. patients, carers and colleagues in the delivery of high-quality healthcare.

Build positive working relationships, respecting and valuing others, being helpful and inclusive.

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.