Community Forensic Learning Disability/RMN Nurse

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Forensic Learning Disability/RMN Nurse to join their newly developed FIND Community Team. The role involves providing care coordination and support to individuals with learning disabilities and autism, focusing on vocational skills and social inclusion. Candidates will be expected to manage a caseload, implement care packages, and mentor students. This is a full-time position based in London, offering a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Provide care coordination and support to individuals with learning disabilities.
• Assess and implement care packages within the CPA framework.
• Administer risk management strategies and medication.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined caseload with active follow-up.
• Participate in continuous professional development and supervision.
• Provide mentorship to students on placement.

Skills

Care coordination

Social supervision

Mentorship

Education

Registered Mental Nurse (RMN)

Job description

Community Forensic Learning Disability/RMN Nurse

Community Forensic Learning Disability/RMN Nurse

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This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join the newly developed Forensic Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (FIND) Community Team in Oxleas.

You will be working within the Forensic Directorate in providing care coordination and support to individuals with learning disabilities / Autism, as per the teams operational policy and inclusion criteria.

This includes providing intensively supported placements for men and women with a longer than average length of inpatient stay to gain and develop the skills necessary to live in the community. Focus will be on vocational and occupational skills, with social inclusion through a combination of support, access to community facilities, work experience, training, and employment support. There is an emphasis on service user involvement and peer worker support.

The Post Holder Will Be Expected To

• Provide specialist knowledge and care coordination, including social supervision, through active management and follow up of a defined caseload as well as providing expert advice and consultation e.g. CMHT's, Community LD teams, Community Forensic mental health teams, courts, police liaison meetings, probation and mental health hostels.
• Assess, develop and implement care packages for patients within the framework of the CPA in conjunction with other members of the MDT. Works within codes of practice and professional guidelines and is accountable for own professional practice.
• Ensure observance and the working of all relevant legal and statutory requirements.
• Require to act within broad occupational policies without guidance or direct supervision.
• To participate fully in continuous professional development and supervision.
• To regularly provide mentorship and supervision to students on placement
• To administer risk management strategies including the administration of depot medication in the clients home. Organisation and delivery of prescribed medication to the client for the purposes of close monitoring of medication concordance. Random urine screening for illicit substance misuse as directed by Home Office directions.
  
  

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Eshan Sakeer Job title: Team Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07884130979

Chris Collins

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