IST Learning Disability Nurse

NELFT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Ilford; On-site; GBP 4,000 - 6,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health care provider in Ilford is looking for a dedicated nursing professional to join the Intensive Support Team. The role involves providing comprehensive nursing services for individuals with learning disabilities and autism, collaborating with various health professionals, and promoting access to mainstream health services. Excellent communication skills and teamwork are essential. The organization is recognized for its commitment to equality, flexibility, and staff well-being.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Health and well-being support programs

Award-winning equality and diversity initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience working collaboratively within health care teams.
• Excellent communication skills to interact with diverse stakeholders.
• Commitment to reducing health inequalities.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality, comprehensive nursing services.
• Work with various health professionals to promote access to services.
• Engage in health promotion activities for service users.

Job description

Overview

NELFT would like to introduce the launch of the Intensive Support Team, which aims to support people with a Learning Disability and Autism who require specialist crisis intervention. We believe that individuals who display challenging behaviours, including those with a mental health condition, should have access to the same opportunities to live satisfying and valued lives. The service was developed in response to the best means of supporting our people with a learning disability and autism at a critical time in their journey, offering the least restrictive environment and ensuring that we provide the best response to those users of the service who need specialist support, together with their carers and families. The post holder will work collaboratively with other LD and mental health care professionals to provide high-quality, comprehensive and dynamic specialist nursing services to maintain and improve the health and well-being of adults with learning disabilities. This will include working directly with service users who have complex healthcare needs, supporting other staff who provide clinical care to people with healthcare needs of lesser complexity, and also engaging in a range of health promotion activities. The candidate will also be required to work with multiple agencies and service providers across NELFT, which will need excellent communication skills, and will be a member of the multi-disciplinary team with active participation in team meetings.

• Have a key role in working with a wide range of health professionals and other partners and agencies to reduce health inequalities and promote access to mainstream health services
• Work as partners with individuals and their families, providing advice and support, anticipating health needs, promoting self-care and enabling people to be as independent and involved as possible
• Represent the service and individual service users at multi-disciplinary meetings, taking a lead role where appropriate and integrating speech and language therapy needs into a service user management plan
• Communicate often complex information effectively to service users and carers, using alternative methods of communication where appropriate, to maximise treatment potential whilst ensuring an understanding of risks and benefits of assessment and treatment/interventions
• Provide advice and teaching to service users, their families and carers, health professionals within the team and NELFT, the wider health community, and public, voluntary and private agencies
• Share information effectively and concisely for a range of situations and contexts to ensure safety and continuity of care
• Leadership

Qualifications

No specific qualifications listed in this posting. The description outlines responsibilities and expectations for the role within the Intensive Support Team at NELFT.

Benefits

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
• As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Armed Forces and Equality Statements

Supporting our Armed Forces: We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans, reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Join us

Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas. The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT. Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video.

Values

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT. They are: We are kind. We are respectful. We work together with our communities. These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.

Induction and Probation

All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex. This post will be subject to a probationary period.

Additional Information

High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London: This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,714 and a maximum payment of £5,941 per annum, pro rata for part time).

Correspondence

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post. In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.