- Undertake clinical risk assessment and management plans and develop within these, comprehensive multi agency
- To be one of the nursing specialist within OBIS
- To provide specialist nursing advice for offenders with learning disabilities. This includes direct work with service users and families, advice to colleagues, other service providers and carers.
- To identify and provide training in response to specific service user needs within a variety of settings where the care of the individual is provided.
- To carry out joint assessments with other disciplines / agencies where appropriate
- To take part in research of the health needs of people who have a Learning Disabilities to assist in developing high quality services to meet the needs of the service users and to enable learning and development to encourage high performing teams.
- To maintain a personal and professional profile to fulfil NMC Revalidation requirements.
- To provide a person-centred approach integrated within the care planning approach, which optimises integration into community life.
- To participate in and encourage a multi-disciplinary approach at all times.
- To develop and maintain a culture in which service users, supported by their advocates, where appropriate, are able to share in decisions, which affect their lives.
- To work towards the implementation of all national and local policies concerning the care and treatment of people with learning disabilities.
- To work as a community learning disability nurse with knowledge & skills in the nursing assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of offenders with learning disabilities.
- To work as a member of a specialist multi-disciplinary team (M.D.T.) within the LD and Forensics Service.
- To work jointly with OBIS clinical psychologist, Clinical Team Leader and Community Managers.
- To practise evidence based nursing interventions for offenders with learning disabilities within their caseload.
- To work in liaison with service users, carers, other professionals, in collaboration with other services ensuring a needs-led service.
- To be involved with and share the responsibility for identifying and developing opportunities for Service Users with learning disabilities to be key to local and Trust wide service operation and development.
- To share their expertise and knowledge with their colleagues in the wider HPFT assessment and treatment services.
- To promote and maintain good working relationships and effective communications / liaison with carers, team colleagues in HPFT, Hertfordshire Health & Community Service and external agents.
- To work jointly with the CATS intensive nurses in gate keeping assessments for service users who are offenders with learning disabilities and who are at risk of inappropriate admission in a HPFT assessment and treatment bed.
- To work in close liaison with the Clinical Team Leader and other clinical & professional leads in delivering effective evidence-based practice to adults with learning disabilities requiring specialist forensic services.
- To develop & maintain relationships with Forensic Mental Health services in respect to national drivers.
- To carry out health assessments and be competent in reporting back health assessments to the wider MDT.
- To act in a consultative role to external agencies in relations to clinical interventions, risk assessments & management plans.
- To maintain appropriate records according to NMC record keeping & HPFT Data Quality policy and guidance.
- To support the ongoing development of quality services by actively engaging in the Quality and Risk forum.
- To actively participate and encourage others in quality improvement audits and benchmarking.
- To work in close liaison with inpatient services.
- To ensure that the Nursing Team within the Community Assessment and Treatment Service works within the Mental Health Act (1983), amended (2007), Mental Capacity Act (2005) and Hertfordshire Safe guarding Adults frameworks.
- Understanding and adhering to local, regional and national policies / procedures and guidelines, ensuring innovative, evidence based and safe practice within the service.
- To participate where appropriate in the development and implementation of policies / procedures / standards and guidelines in response to new legislation.
- All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.
- Registered Learning Disability / Mental Health Nurse
- Mentoring / Practice Assessor / Practice Supervisor training
- Additional areas of training through short courses, Post qualification courses
- Membership of professional bodies (NMC)
- Sufficient appropriate experience working in an inpatient or community setting with service users who have a Learning Disability
- Experience in working within Multi-disciplinary Teams and inter-agency working
- Day to day management of staff at supervisory level.
- Experience of working with service users with Behaviour of concern, complex healthand Mental Health needs.
- You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout.