Community Learning Disability Nurse - Band 5

HCRG Care Group; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare organisation as a Community Learning Disabilities Nurse, where you will play a vital role in promoting health and wellbeing for individuals with learning disabilities across various locations in Wiltshire. You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, manage care packages, and provide training, all while accessing a supportive environment focused on professional development and patient care excellence.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Access to My Reward Hub for discounts

Continuing professional development opportunities

Mental and physical wellbeing support

Innovation funding for new ideas

Qualifications

• Experience working with individuals with learning disabilities and complex health needs.
• Skills in developing care plans and delivering personalized health care.
• Post registration qualifications in relevant areas (e.g., health promotion, positive behaviour support).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to promote health outcomes for patients.
• Manage individual care packages and facilitate healthcare for service users.
• Provide training to staff and mentoring to students in the field.

Skills

Communication

Empathy

Team Collaboration

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Education

Registered Nurse (RNLD/RNMH/RN)

Job description

Vacancies Community Learning Disability Nurse - Band 5

Job Introduction

As aCommunity Learning Disabilities Nurse, working within our Community Team for People with Learning Disabilities, County Wide; Chippenham, Warminster, Salisbury, Marlborough, in Wiltshire.

This a Community Learning Disability Nursing role which will actively promote the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities through a range of specialist clinical and education interventions in line with all the relevant government policies and guidance e.g. Valuing People 2009, Transforming Care 2015 and The Restraint Reduction Network.

Main Responsibility

General

Collaborate with the multi-disciplinary CTPLD team to achieve health outcomes and contribute to personalized health planning.

Offer specialist advice and training to develop services that address the health needs of adults with learning disabilities.

Perform clinical tasks, procedures, and practices based on specialist expertise.

Manage care packages for individuals with specific funding, such as Continuing Health Care.

Promote learning disability awareness, ensuring reasonable adjustments are made in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Seek nursing supervision and peer support when evidence is not available.

Analyze complex information and act accordingly.

Stay updated on policies from bodies like the NMC, Government, DOH, MENCAP, and BILD.

Engage in ongoing personal development through training and apply new skills in practice.

Follow national frameworks for NHS care, including Care and Treatment Reviews and Transforming Care guidelines.

Provide expert health advice and interventions to service users and their families/carers.

Manage a designated Community Nursing caseload professionally.

Facilitate healthcare for individuals with learning disabilities and collaborate with primary and secondary health teams.

Assess, plan, and evaluate health needs using specialist skills and knowledge.

Support individuals with behaviors of concern through appropriate assessments and interventions.

Ensure informed consent by providing necessary information to clients and carers.

Develop individual care and risk management plans based on the physical and emotional needs of service users.

Promote independence and empower individuals to make informed healthcare decisions.

Respond swiftly to service user needs with minimal supervision.

Collaborate with families and carers to create personalized Care Plans.

Promote healthy lifestyles through education and accessible information.

Utilize effective communication skills to explain complex health issues.

Provide therapeutic group work on issues like assertiveness, relationships, and sexual health.

Training and Development:

Supervise and support Assistant Practitioners and Health Support Workers, conducting appraisals and development reviews.

Mentor learning disability nursing students and Student Nurse Associates during clinical placements.

Collaborate with other specialties to provide care, education, and training to professionals.

Other Factors:

Community-based role with home and day service visits, often requiring travel in rural areas (driver's license essential).

Ability to work independently, manage disruptions in open-plan offices, and concentrate on tasks.

Support service users with long-term or deteriorating conditions, showing empathy and handling emotional situations.

Navigate challenging behavior and mental health difficulties, resolving conflicts as needed.

Flexibility to handle diverse and demanding situations.

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

The Ideal Candidate

• Registered Nurse (RNLD/RNMH/RN)
• Experience of working with People with learning disabilities and complex health needs i.e. physical health needs or behaviours of concern
• Knowledge of common health problems experienced by people with LD e.g. epilepsy, diagnostic overshadowing.
• Knowledge and skills to undertake health assessments, develop care plans and evaluate them using person centred approaches.
• Knowledge and skills to deliver or facilitate health care according to assessed needs.
• Knowledge of alternative communication skills
• Experience of working with People with learning disabilities and complex health needs i.e. physical health needs or behaviours of concern
• Knowledge of common health problems experienced by people with LD e.g. epilepsy, diagnostic overshadowing.
• Knowledge and skills to undertake health assessments, develop care plans and evaluate them using person centred approaches.
• Knowledge and skills to deliver or facilitate health care according to assessed needs.
• Knowledge of alternative communication skills
• Post registration qualifications relevant to the post e.g. teaching and assessing, dual diagnosis, health promotion, epilepsy care, positive behaviour support.
• Experience of networking
• Experience of working with families and carers
• Experience of working in a Community Learning Disabilities Team or Multi-disciplinary team working
• Wide range of interpersonal and communication skills
• Competence in a wide range of nursing skills
• Skills in preparing and presenting teaching sessions

Other Job-Related Requirements

• Willing to work in other areas of the HCRG as and when required to do so.
• Full valid driving licence for the UK
• Access to a car for use at work

Package Description

As aCommunity Learning Disabilities Nurseyou will be part of our valued team in our County Wide; Chippenham, Warminster, Salisbury, Marlborough , receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £29,970 - £36,483 (Band 5 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Community Learning Disability Nurse - Band 5

• Frequency Annual
• Job Reference HCRGCG/TP/44687/15634
• Contract Type Permanent - Full Time
• Closing Date 22 June, 2025
• Job Category HCRG - Nursing and Midwifery Registered
• Business Unit HCRG - BSW
• Location County Wide; Chippenham, Warminster, Salisbury, Marlborough, United Kingdom