Band 5 Staff Nurse- Weston-super-Mare

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health service provider is seeking a qualified RNLD specialist nurse for the Specialist Service for Children with Learning Disability. The role involves providing high-quality nursing care, working collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team, and improving the quality of support for children in educational settings. The position offers professional development opportunities and access to NHS benefits.

Benefits

NHS pension scheme

Training and professional development

Exclusive NHS discounts

Qualifications

• RNLD qualified and registered to practice (NMC).
• Ability to provide initial and ongoing holistic health assessments.
• Commitment to CPD and professional development opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• Act as a role model for team members.
• Ensure contemporaneous records are maintained.
• Promote a team approach to care within a multi-disciplinary framework.
• Manage your own caseload within the community learning disability nursing service.

Skills

Clinical competency

Autonomy

Team collaboration

Commitment to professional development

Education

RNLD qualification and NMC registration

Job description

Overview

You will be a RNLD qualified, and you will work as a specialist nurse in the Specialist Service for Children with Learning Disability (SSCLD) within North Somerset Community CAMHS to ensure a clinically effective and high-quality nursing service. The post is based in Weston-super-Mare and Clevedon, with easy commuting access to Bristol and Taunton.

North Somerset CAMHS currently offers a range of innovative approaches, supports CPD opportunities with a comprehensive in-house training programme, and provides Eating Disorder and Core CAMHS Services. The post involves flexible working across two sites and potential development opportunities within the Service.

The successful candidate will be part of a stimulating and supportive multidisciplinary team, working as part of the skilled LD service alongside the team lead. The post holder will be a role model for junior staff, be clinically competent to hold an active caseload, and provide support, advice, healthcare and health promotion, as well as initial and ongoing holistic health assessments for children and young people with learning disabilities and their families/carers. The post will work as part of and promote joint working with the wider multi-agency Specialist Learning Disability Service.

The post holder will help to improve early identification of challenging behaviour and mental health issues in children and young people with moderate to profound learning disabilities, and will help improve the quality of support to children and young people in specialist educational settings and in mainstream schools identified as requiring a service. The post will work closely with the Senior SSCLD Nurse to review, audit and help implement strategic changes to SSCLD to achieve Core Values and Government-aligned targets.

Responsibilities

1. Adhere to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct for nurses, midwives and health visitors and be conversant with the scope of Professional Practice and other NMC papers.
2. Act as a role model and motivate team members towards innovative and high-standard practice that is research/evidenced based.
3. Ensure contemporaneous records are maintained.
4. Promote a team approach to care within a multi-disciplinary framework, including liaison and effective communication of confidential and sensitive information with other statutory and voluntary agencies.
5. Ensure the community learning disability nursing service develops in line with core values and outcomes, following government recommendations and public health initiatives.
6. Work autonomously and effectively as part of the community learning disability nursing service while managing your own caseload.
7. Ensure that the legal frameworks relevant to work within the Specialist Learning Disability Service are adhered to and followed.

Qualifications and Requirements

• RNLD qualified and registered to practice (NMC).
• Clinical competency to hold an active caseload and provide initial and ongoing holistic health assessments for children and young people with learning disabilities and their families/carers.
• Ability to work autonomously and within a multidisciplinary team, promoting joint working with the wider Specialist Learning Disability Service.
• Commitment to CPD and professional development opportunities.

About the employer

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust), a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services across Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, Wiltshire, and parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

AWP actively encourages applicants from all backgrounds and particularly welcomes applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, people with disabilities, and the LGBTQ+ community. Diversity is seen as a strength.

Benefits and Additional Information

You will enjoy the benefits of working in AWP, including a commitment to developing a highly skilled workforce and opportunities for professional development. You will be encouraged to participate in training and development activities, with access to the NHS pension scheme and exclusive NHS discounts.