Community Learning Disability Nurse

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Wallsend; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in North Tyneside is seeking a Community Learning Disability Nurse to join a large, supportive team. The role involves carrying a personal caseload, delivering assessment, planning, and continuous care for people with learning disabilities, and working with families and carers to improve health and wellbeing.

The post offers opportunities for supervision, regular team meetings, and ongoing professional development within a PBS framework.

Qualifications

• Registered Learning Disability Nurse placed as a core requirement.
• Mentorship qualification or equivalent, to be completed within 18 months.
• Advanced practice with specialist knowledge in LD care (BSc, Diploma, or equivalent).
• Experience in community setting and with children and adults.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality nursing to adults and children with learning disabilities in North Tyneside.
• Collaborate across Primary and secondary care for equitable access.
• Coordinate with agencies to support communication and access.
• Develop and implement Positive Behaviour Support plans and crisis interventions.

Skills

Nursing registration

Learning disability care

Mentorship qualification

Advanced practice

Community health delivery

Education

BSc Nursing (or Diploma)

Diploma in Nursing

Job description

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Community Learning Disability Nurse

The closing date is 25 November 2026

Join our friendly Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. Our team is a large well established and supportive multi disciplinary team offering holistic health care to children and adults who have a learning disability living in North Tyneside.

The Ideal candidate will have an understanding of National and Local Policies relating to the management of people with learning disabilities.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

This post will be based in our PBS team carrying out behavioural assessments and interventions for children and adults who present with behaviours that challenge.

Training will be available to successful applicants.

The post holder will be welcomed as a member of the friendly, community learning disabilities team in Northumbria Health Care Trust offering regular team meetings, robust support and supervision, and a commitment to continued professional development.

As an integral part of North Tyneside Community Learning Disability Team, the post holder will be solely responsible for a personal caseload including assessment, planning, implementing and evaluation of care.They will be passionate about working in collaboration with service users, their family, carers and professional colleagues in order to enhance health and wellbeing, to prevent or reduce behaviour that challenges.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job responsibilities

• To provide a high quality community nursing service to adults and children who have a learning disability within the North Tyneside area.
• To work across Primary and secondary healthcare services to ensure equality of access for those with learning disabilities.
• To work with other agencies and services (statutory and non statutory) to ensure equality of access for those with a learning disability and facilitate effective communication between clients and other agencies.
• To provide community nursing support to adults and children who have behavioural/mental health problems. Support the design and implement Positive Behaviour Support Plans to provide intensive, proactive support and crisis intervention to patients, carers and care providers to prevent/ reduce admission to in-patient units and to maintain community placements.

The post holder will have supervisory responsibilities for junior staff and also work within the Integrated Community Learning Disability Team ensuring the service continues to provide the highest possible of care to the patients we support.

There is an expectation the post holder will chair, attend and contribute to all relevant meetings and be involved with service development, audits and quality improvements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Learning Disability Nurse
• Mentorship Qualification or relevant equivalent qualification (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18-month period)
• Advanced Practice with specialist knowledge in the provision of care for people with learning disabilities (BSc, Diploma, or relevant portfolio to this level)
• Experience working in the community setting.
• Experience working with children and adults.
• Experience of working with people who present with challenging behavior as well as experience of working within an PBS framework.

Experience and Knowledge

• Experience working with people who present with challenging behaviours and experience of working within a PBS framework.
• Experience of multi-agency working.
• Experience working with children and adults
• Experience working in the community setting

Other requirements

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

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.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust