Health Liaison Nurse

Hywel Dda University Health Board; Carmarthen; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider is looking for a proactive individual to join the Health Facilitation and Liaison Team in Carmarthen. This role focuses on supporting individuals with learning disabilities in accessing primary care, ensuring they receive equitable healthcare services. The ideal candidate will provide training to health staff, assess patient needs, and work collaboratively with numerous professionals to create a responsive care environment. Various full and part-time hours are available.

Qualifications

• Experience working with individuals with learning disabilities.
• Ability to provide training to healthcare staff.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with various professionals.

Responsibilities

• Provide health facilitation services to individuals with learning disabilities.
• Deliver training on the needs of people with learning disabilities to healthcare staff.
• Assess patients and advise on reasonable adjustments for care.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Health Facilitation and Liaison Team, providing support to people with a learning disability when accessing primary care. This post comes during a period of Service Transformation in response to the changing needs of people with a learning disability and the national agenda for improvement. If successful, you will play a vital part within this exciting period of change, by contributing to the design of a new service model providing flexible & responsive services. The post holder will;

• Provide a health facilitation service to people with a learning disability who need to access primary care.
• Work in collaboration with secondary care providers to ensure reasonable adjustments are made in delivery of care to people with a learning disability and their carers.
• Be expected to deliver training primary care services staff.
• Directly assess patients referred to the service from acute and secondary care and provide advice and guidance on making reasonable adjustments to care for the patient.
• Work closely with our Health Check Champions.

Various full and part time hours are available.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for ensuring people with learning disability receive an equitable healthcare experience. You will also be responsible for providing training on the needs of people with learning disability to our acute and primary care services staff. You will be expected to provide direct support to individuals when accessing health services. You will be responsible for trying to reduce health inequalities and reduce avoidable deaths for people with a learning disability. You will be required to liaise with a vast number of professionals to ensure the individual receives a high standard of care.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Hywel Dda University Health Board plans and provides NHS healthcare services for people living in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, and bordering counties. We have over 13,000 staff and together we provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services. We work in partnership with the three local authorities, as well as public, private and third sector colleagues, including our valued team of volunteers.

Our services are provided in:

• Four main hospitals: Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth; Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen; Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli; and Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest
• Five community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery hospitals in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron Hospital in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire hospitals in Pembrokeshire
• Two integrated care centres: Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion, and several other community settings
• 48 general practices (six of which are health board managed practices); dental practices (including four orthodontic); 97 community pharmacies; 43 general ophthalmic practices; and 8 ophthalmic domiciliary providers