Nurse Consultant Learning Disabilities
The closing date is 17 March 2026
Job summary
Nurse Consultant Learning Disabilities - Band 8B (Subject to Job Evaluation)
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.
Details
Date posted
03 March 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£64,455 to £74,896 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
232-SPL-7805367
Job locations
Dragon Square
Stoke-on-Trent
ST5 7HW
Employer details
Employer name
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
Address
Dragon Square
Stoke-on-Trent
ST5 7HW
Employer's website
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