Senior Community Nurse - Learning Disabilities

Job overview

Are you an experienced Learning Disability nurse who is passionate about improving people’s lives?

We’re looking to recruit an experienced and enthusiastic Band 6 Senior Community Learning Disability Nurse.

Then why not become a part of our outstanding service, where we pride ourselves on putting an individual’s right to choice, independence, health and wellbeing at the centre of everything we do through our innovative multi-disciplinary approach.

Our service works to implement the assessment and provision of person-centred specialist health and social care services that promote service users right to choose, in line with their assessed needs and in a way that enables them to reach their full potential.

This role is both varied and challenging at times, but our innovating work in a multi-disciplinary setting allows you to have the very best support from a network of colleagues.

So, what can we offer you in return? The successful applicant will benefit from generous annual leave entitlement, an NHS pension, as well as training opportunities.

Main duties of the job

• To participate in the delivery of a countywide specialist LD nursing under the guidance of the lead Nurse by managing a caseload of clients with complex learning disabilities.
• To provide professional supervision to other staff /students as appropriate including appraisal and professional development particularly mandatory training.
• To contribute to the planning, development, and evaluation of learning disability services, including contributing to defined projects as delegated by the management team via the Lead Nurse.
• As an autonomous practitioner to manage a specialist case load providing assessment, identification and treatment of the health needs of adults with a learning disability and/or autism.
• To participate in multi disciplinary/multi agency working with key partners and professionals.

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• The post holder will demonstrate specialist knowledge and skills and have undertaken appropriate post registration training
• To have an understanding of Health and Social care policy and legislation for the service user group in relation to your professional practice
• To independently prioritise, maintain and manage a complex specialist personal caseload within the context of the Learning Disability Partnership.
• To be highly proficient in the assessment, identification, treatment and management of the specialist health and nursing needs of the learning disability population. This includes risk assessment, assessment of complex conditions e.g. challenging behaviour including forensic issues, palliative care, mental health, epilepsy etc.
• To liaise and communicate effectively and sensitively with other professionals in the MDT and external agencies (e.g. Mental Health Teams, Drug and Alcohol, Palliative and Children’s Service’s) providing highly specialist advice as necessary.
• To lead in, implement and evaluate specialist programmes of care which support the health care of individuals or groups with Learning disabilities and complex needs.
• To work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team and across partner agencies.
• Lead in the co-ordination of complex case work as a case manager for individuals.