Community Learning Disabilities Nurse

Merseycare; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Community Learning Disabilities Nurse in Liverpool. This role offers the chance to support adults with learning disabilities and complex health needs, working within a dynamic multidisciplinary team. You will manage your own caseload, ensuring high clinical standards and actively participating in an on-call rota. With opportunities for further training and a commitment to personal development, this position is ideal for those looking to make a meaningful impact in the community. Experience a supportive environment where your contributions are valued and where you can grow professionally while making a difference in the lives of others.

Benefits

Flexible Working Requests Considered

Training Opportunities

Supportive Work Environment

Guaranteed Interview Scheme for Disabled Applicants

Qualifications

• Registered nurse qualification and evidence of learning and development required.
• Experience in nursing care planning for adults with learning disabilities is essential.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals with learning disabilities with mental and physical health issues.
• Manage a caseload with supervision and contribute to Health Action Plans.

Skills

Communication Skills

Nursing Care Planning

Teamwork

Medication Administration

Cultural Awareness

Risk Management

IT Skills

Education

Registered Nurse Qualification – Learning Disabilities RNLD

Training Qualification ENB 998 or Equivalent

Job description

Main area: Learning Disabilities
Grade Band: 5
Contract: Permanent (on call rota)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-SC6834053

Site: Norris Green Community Hub
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £29,970 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 29/12/2024 23:59
Interview date: 10/01/2025

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

Job overview

We currently have a vacancy available for a Community Learning Disabilities Nurse to work within the Liverpool community team, supporting adults who have a diagnosis of a learning disability with complex physical and mental health diagnosis. Work as part of a dynamic supportive MDT. Plus the participation in an on call rota.

The post holder will manage their own caseload with the support from their supervisor, whilst having the opportunity to undertake further training within their role; preceptorship is available. The post is a development band 5 to 6 post, that will be agreed upon successful interview.

Main duties of the job

Supporting individuals with a diagnosis of a learning disability with mental and or physical health issues. Maintaining a caseload with support from your supervisor and team. As a team, we support individuals with a learning disability with many aspects of their life such as supporting with acute physical health issues, groups and also through a variety of pathways both within the trust and external.

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a supervised practitioner, to be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of the post holder's own non-clinical activity.

To actively promote and ensure that all aspects of clinical care offered to people with learning disabilities are of a high clinical standard and evidence based in line with professional codes of conduct and local policies and procedures.

To liaise with other members of the Learning Disability Team and other agencies, families and carers to support the development of Health Action Plans for people with learning disabilities incorporating specialist individual treatment plans and goals. To evaluate regularly and modify the aims and goals in consultation and agreement with the person with learning disabilities and carers.

To take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that NMC Regulations are adhered to.

To facilitate access to generic services where possible and to act as a link person for Primary Care Health Services.

To carry out specific Nursing interventions for people with more complex needs in terms of health, mental health, epilepsy and challenging behaviour under the supervision of Senior Nurses.

To regularly evaluate progress using appropriate outcome measures and change care programmes within guidelines set by a Senior Nurse.

To develop and monitor written information for patients and their families and/or carers. The postholder will provide written or verbal information and reports to the multi-disciplinary/multi-agency team and other external agencies as required. To identify the need for referral to other professions and agencies as required.

To be aware of psychosocial issues, cultural and social differences and consider the implications of these when formulating a care programme. To ensure that professional practice promotes social inclusion and is person-centred at all times and to attend planning meetings and case conferences, as required.

To develop risk management plans for clients on own caseload, and with more complex clients under the supervision of Senior Nurse.

To carry out intake assessments under supervision.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered nurse qualification – Learning Disabilities RNLD Current NMC Licence to Practice.
• Portfolio demonstrating evidence of learning and development.
• Training qualification ENB 998 or equivalent.

Knowledge

• Demonstrate experience at pre-registration level of working across a wide range of clinical areas.
• Experience of nursing care planning process for adults with Learning disabilities.

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels with other professionals and with people who may have significant barriers to understanding.
• Demonstrates good standard of verbal and written communication skills including basic I.T. skills.
• Basic knowledge of national and local policy / good practice guidance relating to care of people with learning disabilities.
• Awareness of specialist assessment tools
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Able to plan and manage own workload.

Special Requirements

• Ability to work in an unpredictable work environment which may include people with challenging and aggressive behaviour.
• Flexible approach to hours and duties.
• Keen to progress own personal development.
• Must have the ability to travel within the area of work.

Additional Information

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [e-mail] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: Nicola Sprung
Job title: Team Manager
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 01517374800
Additional information: Please call or email for an informal chat.

FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL AND SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH MERSEY CARE

At Mersey Care, our commitment to ‘perfect care’ lies at the heart of everything we do, a person-centred care that starts with you. It’s a pledge to create an environment and staff support that will enable you to do the best job you can possibly do, to be the best you can possibly be.

You’ll be joining one of the most innovative and progressive NHS trusts in the country. One that offers specialist inpatient and community services to support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. We are the founding member of the Zero Suicide Alliance, and one of only three Trusts in the country which delivers high secure mental health care.

You’ll be made to feel at home, joining an almost 11,000-strong Mersey Care family comprising doctors, nurses, clinical staff, as well as countless other roles from dieticians to dentists, from data analysts to physiotherapists. You'll find a full list of our roles in our A-Z list.

You’ll have a home in the North West of England where your work/life balance is respected and working from sites easily commutable from Liverpool, Manchester, North Wales and Cheshire with many roles operating a hybrid working system.

Meet one of our nurses, Yohan, who came from London because Mersey Care is “the place to be”.

Join him in our secure and specialist learning disability division, or see our wider services in the region.