Job summary
We are seeking an experienced, forward-thinking Nurse Consultant Learning Disabilities to provide expert clinical leadership and highly specialised interventions across Adult and Child community services, as well as our inpatient unit.
Working autonomously, you will deliver high-quality, person-centred nursing care, lead specialist clinics, and undertake advanced holistic assessments for individuals with complex LD and mental health needs. A key part of the role is to drive the development and delivery of evidence-based practice, ensuring the ongoing implementation of clinical pathways, quality improvement and transformational change.
You will act as a system leader, modelling excellence in clinical decision making and championing high standards of care across services, and provide expert consultancy, clinical supervision, and education to practitioners, students, and wider MDT colleagues, and maintain strong relationships with universities and education providers.
Collaboration is central to this post, working closely with statutory, voluntary and community partners, contributing to multi-agency groups and strengthening integrated care.
The role carries a strong expectation of clinical leadership, with a commitment to ensuring lived experience, co-production, and the voice of people with learning disabilities and their families are embedded in service design, delivery and evaluation.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will work across the Community Learning Disability Health Team, Intensive Support Team, Assessment and Treatment Unit, Children and Young Peoples (CYP) LD Team and Specialist Children's Short Break Service delivering the highest quality nursing care to service users, their family and carers.
The post-holder will work across professional and organisational boundaries, develop specialist knowledge underpinned by theory and practice, undertake advanced level assessment and initiate clinical interventions in order to address complex learning disability/mental health needs.
The post-holder will work as an autonomous practitioner and provide clinical leadership through the development and delivery of the highest level of clinical practice and provide expert nursing through direct care, consultancy and clinical supervision of practitioners within the Specialist Directorate.
The post-holder will sustain productive partnerships with universities and other education organisations and develop education programmes having identified learning needs at individual Directorate and organisational level to ensure a culture of change through evidence-based learning.
About us
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Provide expert clinical practice and nursing leadership for the Learning Disabilities Service Line. Working closely with the Directorates senior management team, make a key contribution to the Trusts objectives relating to the Directorate.
2. Work strategically in partnership with other local NHS organisations, non-NHS organisations, Local Authorities, with independent contractors and the public to facilitate the implementation of best practice in relation to Learning Disabilities.
3. Contribute to the national Consultant Nurse Network.
4. Provide evidence-based interventions internally within the organisation and agree and direct externally to partner organisations.
5. Advise on and contribute to the development of Learning Disability policies and strategies.
6. Develop research capacity within the LD Service Line.
7. Demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users choice and works alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning (recovery model).
8. Advise the Directorate senior management team in sustaining and developing LD services. Co-ordinate, develop and maintain high quality, safe and effective systems for strategic development and effective implementation of clinical activity within the Directorate, underpinned by excellent practice.
9. Specifically, lead on quality and service improvement through clinical audit and monitoring of quality indicators and outcomes.
10. Play an active role in assisting the Trust to comply with national and local standards, providing assurances to the Board where necessary.
11. Work in partnership alongside both clinical and non-clinical colleagues and key stakeholders, including the Trusts commissioners and partner organisations, to ensure that a joined up and seamless approach operates with regard to the management of LD services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Provide expert clinical practice and nursing leadership for the Learning Disabilities Service Line. Working closely with the Directorates senior management team, make a key contribution to the Trusts objectives relating to the Directorate.
2. Work strategically in partnership with other local NHS organisations, non-NHS organisations, Local Authorities, with independent contractors and the public to facilitate the implementation of best practice in relation to Learning Disabilities.
3. Contribute to the national Consultant Nurse Network.
4. Provide evidence-based interventions internally within the organisation and agree and direct externally to partner organisations.
5. Advise on and contribute to the development of Learning Disability policies and strategies.
6. Develop research capacity within the LD Service Line.
7. Demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users choice and works alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning (recovery model).
8. Advise the Directorate senior management team in sustaining and developing LD services. Co-ordinate, develop and maintain high quality, safe and effective systems for strategic development and effective implementation of clinical activity within the Directorate, underpinned by excellent practice.
9. Specifically, lead on quality and service improvement through clinical audit and monitoring of quality indicators and outcomes.
10. Play an active role in assisting the Trust to comply with national and local standards, providing assurances to the Board where necessary.
11. Work in partnership alongside both clinical and non-clinical colleagues and key stakeholders, including the Trusts commissioners and partner organisations, to ensure that a joined up and seamless approach operates with regard to the management of LD services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered LD Nurse or RMN with current NMC registration
- Master's Degree in Advanced Clinical Practice (MSc ACP)
- v300 qualification in Independent/Supplementary prescribing
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working in LD services at a senior level
Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced knowledge in the LD field
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered LD Nurse or RMN with current NMC registration
- Master's Degree in Advanced Clinical Practice (MSc ACP)
- v300 qualification in Independent/Supplementary prescribing
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working in LD services at a senior level
Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced knowledge in the LD field
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
