Senior Community Learning Disability / CAMHS practitioner

Job overview

Are you looking for a fulfilling and varied role? Do you want to develop your career in community learning disability nursing?

A rare and exciting opportunity for a Senior Community Nurse has arisen within our Suffolk Community CAMHS team for Children with learning disabilities.

As a team we continually strive to develop the services we offer, to ensure they’re high quality and evidence based. To support our aims, we are seeking enthusiastic and highly motivated nurse to join our dynamic multi- disciplinary service. You’ll be joining an innovative Multi disciplinary team working collaboratively with multiple agencies and professional clinicians.

Our service covers the geographical area of East and West Suffolk and you’ll be responsible for managing a caseload from our base in Ipswich.

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate should possess excellent and varied communication skills, enjoy working as part of a team, and working closely with colleagues from a range of disciplines. You will be able to work independently, carry out comprehensive assessments and plan, implement and evaluate delivery of nursing interventions as part of the holistic approach.

You will also be able to demonstrate that you are able to apply your nursing skills to a wide range of situations, in working with children with a learning disability and families living in the community across Suffolk.

We have a culture of continued learning, working as a close LD mental health specialist pathway.  The team hold monthly protected days which includes a variety of training, reflection, supervision and service development.

We place an emphasis on the importance of clinical supervision and continued professional development; we offer a variety of opportunities in a supportive, friendly and stimulating working environment. We’ll support and encourage you to develop specialist experience and expertise as appropriate – whether you wish to be part of QI projects or be part of a leadership group planning and implementing the driving change for Transforming Care and Quality Standards for Learning Disability. Here is your opportunity!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note, you must have a full and valid driving licence due to the community element of the role and the large geographical area that the LD CAMHS team cover.

The team is based in Ipswich and there will be an expectation of travel. Due to the nature of community health services, the successful candidate will have a clean driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

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