Community Learning Disability Nurse

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP); Wirral; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a compassionate Registered Learning Disability Nurse to join their progressive Learning Disability Community Team. This role involves managing a defined case load of adults with learning disabilities and complex health needs, delivering high-quality care, and ensuring a positive patient experience. You will work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, providing support and training to families and care providers. With a strong commitment to equality and diversity, this organization offers an inclusive environment where you can grow and develop your career while making a significant impact on the lives of individuals in the community.

Benefits

Relocation Package up to £8,000

Three Weeks Induction Program

Supportive Work Environment

Qualifications

• Registered Learning Disability Nurse with commitment to ongoing training.
• Experience working with individuals with learning disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined case load of adult service users with learning disabilities.
• Deliver training to families and care providers on challenging behaviours.

Skills

Communication

Compassion

Crisis Support

Report Writing

Training Delivery

Education

Registered Learning Disability Nurse RNLD

NST 307 / ENB 998

Tools

Functional Assessment Tools

Job description

We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000

The relocation package is for anyone who would need to relocate in order to take up employment with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership. Terms and conditions apply.

Are you a Registered Learning Disability nurse and looking to develop your career within our supportive and progressive Learning Disability Community Team, based at Leasowe on the Wirral?

You will be a key member of the multi-disciplinary community support team, managing a defined case load of adult service users with learning disability and complex health needs.

You will be a caring, compassionate individual who is committed to delivering high-quality care and ensuring safe practice and a positive patient experience at all times.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a valued part of the Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT) and be expected to work within a multi-professional framework, managing a defined case load of adult service users with Learning Disabilities and complex health needs, under supervision.

You will require key worker co-ordination of complex cases and ensuring appropriate interventions are in place to support the needs of people with a learning disability. This will include completing care planning and risk assessment to manage risks.

While you will be expected to deliver training to families and care provider agencies surrounding challenging behaviour, mental and physical health, you will receive exceptional support and supervision from this established team, working flexibly in varying locations and times to meet the needs of the service.

You will work alongside clients, families, support workers, and professionals to enable others to better understand and respond to clients’ behaviours that are challenging in line with PBS principles and Positive & Proactive Care: Reducing the need for restrictive interventions (2014).

Working for our organisation

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health, and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.

To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This programme welcomes you to CWP and provides you with information and training to support you in your role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please download a copy of the job description for full details. Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and Behaviours which are ‘the 6 Cs’: Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion, and Commitment. The supporting information section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated behaviours.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Learning Disability Nurse RNLD
• Demonstrate commitment to ongoing training and development
• NST 307 / ENB 998

Knowledge and Expertise

• Sound understanding of PBS & ability to utilise a range of functional assessment tools & interpret data
• Ability to assess, plan, and evaluate care to clients and carers
• Ability to support clients in crisis
• Record keeping & Report writing skills
• Ability to chair meetings e.g. service user reviews
• Ability to deliver training to other professionals, service users, and carers
• Basic working knowledge of legislation and policy relating to learning disabilities (e.g. Mental Health Act; Mental Capacity Act; DoLs, Mansell reports etc.)
• Special interests related to Positive Behaviour Support and reducing restrictive practices

Experience

• Experience of person-centred planning and person-centred approaches to care
• Experience of working with people with learning disabilities in a range of settings
• Ability to implement systems to improve communication and promote engagement in skills development and engagement with positive activities
• Working with a community team or other MDT
• Experience of working with people with a range of complex needs (challenging behaviour; mental health; forensics; physical health)
• Experience of co-facilitating groups

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: Hazel Naylor
Job title: Team Leader
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 0300 303 3157

If you consider yourself to be Neurodivergent and need assistance to complete your application, please contact the recruitment team by email at [e-mail] or telephone [phone].

Giving you time to care, space to think and opportunity to grow

We are Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP). We provide health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health, and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries.

We have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, and Liverpool. We also provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.

Our services are provided in partnership with commissioners, local authorities, voluntary and independent organisations, people who access our services, their carers, and families. The Trust has over 14,500 members and employs more than 4,000 staff across 62 sites, serving a population of over one million people and highly specialist services for two million people.

We offer career opportunities to staff across a range of professions, including:

• Allied health professions - including occupational therapy, physiotherapy, podiatry, and speech and language therapy
• Medical - including psychiatry and general practice
• Pharmacy
• Clinical support roles
• Estates and facilities
• Support services roles - including HR, communications, ICT, finance, and more

At CWP, we believe in giving our staff the time to care, the space to think, and the opportunity to grow.

With vacancies across a range of professions, wherever you’re at in your career journey, you’ll find something to suit you. So why not join our team today?