Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated, compassionate and enthusiastic Band 5 to join the Milton Keynes Community Team for Adults with Learning Disabilities (CTALD). To then develop over 24 months to a Band 6.
This post will be suitable for someone who is passionate about ensuring a high-quality holistic approach to the health care and support provided to people with Learning Disabilities in the community and enabling people to have independent choice over their own lives and health care.
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide specialist health assessments, support, and interventions for adults with learning disabilities and complex health needs.
This role involves managing your own caseload, coordinating with other professionals, and ensuring the person is at the centre of everything you do.
The key aim is to empower service users to achieve their full potential to live healthy lives and enjoy a good quality of life. This will be accomplished with a range of interventions and care packages delivered with a person-centred approach.
The post holder will work within an integrated health team, providing clinical support to adults with learning disabilities and sometimes together with autism who have additional complex needs, which may include challenging behaviour, physical and sensory impairments and mental health. The post holder will play an integral role in delivery of care within these pathways and in a variety of community settings.
Main duties of the job
Manage a defined time limited caseload under the supervision of a senior nurse, prioritising needs and developing person-centred care plans. Ensuring effective support and timely discharge.
Conduct holistic health needs assessments, including all psychosocial elements. Develop community care plans and risk assessments including dementia screening, mental state assessments and sex and relationship knowledge and skills assessments, amongst others. Monitoring and evaluation care plans in consultation with service users, families and carers.
Deliver a range of specialist nursing interventions, such as administering medication/depot injections, supporting service users to manage their complex health conditions (e.g. epilepsy, diabetes).
To support people with learning disabilities who may exhibit a range of behaviours that may challenge others including verbal and/or physical aggression. This will be within the Positive Behaviour Support framework.
Advocate and facilitate access for service users to access mainstream health services, liaising with primary care services to ensure service users receive appropriate reasonable adjustments and support.
About us
There's a place for you at CNWL.We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication
To communicate effectively and compassionately with service users, families and carers. Building up positive therapeutic relationships.
Liaise effectively with a wide range of professionals across health, social care, other agencies to ensure integrated care. Building up positive professional relationships.
Demonstrate communication which is inclusive to meet the needs of all individuals. Consideration of accessibility, clarity, cultural sensitivity, and an understanding of diverse communication styles.
Be able to recognise when barriers to understanding are present, and utilising a variety of resources to aid communication, including pictorial, sign along, and easy read. To also consider interpreting services when there are language barriers.
Documentation
Ensure documentation is clear and accurate and relevant to your practice.
To maintain accurate supervision records (junior staff and students).
To write clear nursing care plans, risk assessments, and clinical reports when required.
Leadership and Management
To offer support and guidance to junior members of staff.
To undertake specific leadership roles and responsibilities within the team that have been identified by the team manager. (E.g. Health Passports and promotion of Learning Disability Annual Health Checks).
Encourage and support innovation, promote networking and explore new ways of working and sharing of expertise.
Clinical Governance
To comply with and implement relevant trust and national policy legislation and guidance.
To maintain and observe confidentiality of all information relating to service users and to adhere to CNWL Information Governance Policy.
Research and Development
To participate in and disseminate research and audit activities in line with local service priorities.
Personal and Professional Development
Undertake activities of Continuous Professional Development, including identifying own learning needs and recording learning outcomes withing the NMC Revalidation framework.
To assume personal responsibility for maintaining a working knowledge of new statutory guidelines that influence clinical practice.
To participate in mandatory and statutory training.
To review own Nursing performance through effective use of professional supervision, DPD opportunities and annual appraisal; ensuring own learning and development needs are identified.
Other
To be flexible to additional and new ways of working within a developing Learning Disability Community Team and to stay in line with local and national initiatives and legislation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication
To communicate effectively and compassionately with service users, families and carers. Building up positive therapeutic relationships.
Liaise effectively with a wide range of professionals across health, social care, other agencies to ensure integrated care. Building up positive professional relationships.
Demonstrate communication which is inclusive to meet the needs of all individuals. Consideration of accessibility, clarity, cultural sensitivity, and an understanding of diverse communication styles.
Be able to recognise when barriers to understanding are present, and utilising a variety of resources to aid communication, including pictorial, sign along, and easy read. To also consider interpreting services when there are language barriers.
Documentation
Ensure documentation is clear and accurate and relevant to your practice.
To maintain accurate supervision records (junior staff and students).
To write clear nursing care plans, risk assessments, and clinical reports when required.
Leadership and Management
To offer support and guidance to junior members of staff.
To undertake specific leadership roles and responsibilities within the team that have been identified by the team manager. (E.g. Health Passports and promotion of Learning Disability Annual Health Checks).
Encourage and support innovation, promote networking and explore new ways of working and sharing of expertise.
Clinical Governance
To comply with and implement relevant trust and national policy legislation and guidance.
To maintain and observe confidentiality of all information relating to service users and to adhere to CNWL Information Governance Policy.
Research and Development
To participate in and disseminate research and audit activities in line with local service priorities.
Personal and Professional Development
Undertake activities of Continuous Professional Development, including identifying own learning needs and recording learning outcomes withing the NMC Revalidation framework.
To assume personal responsibility for maintaining a working knowledge of new statutory guidelines that influence clinical practice.
To participate in mandatory and statutory training.
To review own Nursing performance through effective use of professional supervision, DPD opportunities and annual appraisal; ensuring own learning and development needs are identified.
Other
To be flexible to additional and new ways of working within a developing Learning Disability Community Team and to stay in line with local and national initiatives and legislation.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- 1.Degree/Diploma in in Learning Disability Nursing
- 2.Registered with NMC
- 1.A broad understanding of relevant policy, legislation drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g., Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act, Transforming care agenda, STOMP
- 3.Have a wide understanding of the health-related issues experienced by people with learning disabilities.
- 1.Experience of working with people with learning disabilities, families and carers. This can be within student placements
- 2.Experience of multi-professional partnership working across health, local authority, and the voluntary sector. This can be within student placements
- 3.Effective interpersonal, facilitative and communication skills.
- 4.Evidence of safeguarding knowledge and experience regarding vulnerable adults.
- 2.Has a good understanding of Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI
- 1.To have a full driving licence and access to own car: Community Nursing will require the post holder to travel to a variety of venues
- 3.To have the ability to be flexible within an often fast paced and changeable role.
Desirable
- 1.Further training relevant to the care of clients with Learning Disability.
- 1.Good knowledge/experience with Positive Behaviour Support plans or willing to complete the appropriate training.
- 2.Knowledge of Autism and how to and support adults with autism
- 3.Good IT skills
- 4.Knowledge of medication administration
- 5.Ability to plan, implement and complete work/projects
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- 1.Degree/Diploma in in Learning Disability Nursing
- 2.Registered with NMC
- 1.A broad understanding of relevant policy, legislation drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g., Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act, Transforming care agenda, STOMP
- 3.Have a wide understanding of the health-related issues experienced by people with learning disabilities.
- 1.Experience of working with people with learning disabilities, families and carers. This can be within student placements
- 2.Experience of multi-professional partnership working across health, local authority, and the voluntary sector. This can be within student placements
- 3.Effective interpersonal, facilitative and communication skills.
- 4.Evidence of safeguarding knowledge and experience regarding vulnerable adults.
- 2.Has a good understanding of Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI
- 1.To have a full driving licence and access to own car: Community Nursing will require the post holder to travel to a variety of venues
- 3.To have the ability to be flexible within an often fast paced and changeable role.
Desirable
- 1.Further training relevant to the care of clients with Learning Disability.
- 1.Good knowledge/experience with Positive Behaviour Support plans or willing to complete the appropriate training.
- 2.Knowledge of Autism and how to and support adults with autism
- 3.Good IT skills
- 4.Knowledge of medication administration
- 5.Ability to plan, implement and complete work/projects
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
