LD Primary Liaison Nurse

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board; Abertillery; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable health organization in Abertillery is seeking a dedicated professional to improve health outcomes for individuals with learning disabilities. The role involves providing expert consultancy, leading initiatives to enhance access to healthcare, and delivering training. Candidates should ideally have experience in health promotion and the ability to communicate effectively. This is a fixed-term position until March 2026 with flexible working benefits.

Benefits

Flexible working

Comprehensive benefits package

Extensive training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Ability to speak Welsh is desirable.
• Experience in health promotion initiatives.
• Skills in physical health needs of individuals with learning disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice and consultancy to professionals.
• Lead initiatives to improve access to primary care.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on health promotion strategies.
• Deliver education and training to staff and service users.
• Manage own workload and respond to data requests.

Skills

Communication with service users

Consultancy to health and social care sectors

Training staff and service users

Collaboration with Public Health Wales

Expert advice

Job description

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is an employee-friendly NHS organisation with a multi-award-winning reputation. The primary focus of the role is the physical health needs of individuals with a learning disability. The post holder will be based and managed in Learning Disability services and will raise awareness, improve skills and provide training to service users, carers, paid staff and colleagues in primary care services and learning disability secondary care services to enable them to respond appropriately to the health needs of people with a learning disability.

The post holder will develop plans to ensure those with additional complex needs are enabled to access health promotion initiatives and health care effectively and appropriately. They will work in close collaboration with Public Health Wales, Health Champions and Primary Care to develop initiatives to identify and effectively respond to the health needs of people with a learning disability, with aims to improve health literacy, health outcomes and the experience of healthcare services for service users and their families and carers.

This post will comprise clinical and educational duties and will include jointly delivering training sessions with individuals with a learning disability. It is a fixed term/secondment until 31st March 2026 due to funding. If applying for the secondment, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying.

The post holder will play a key role in improving health outcomes for individuals with learning disabilities by:

• Providing expert advice and consultancy to professionals across health and social care sectors.
• Promoting effective communication with service users, families, and carers.
• Leading initiatives to improve access to primary care and reduce health inequalities.
• Supporting Primary Care services in identifying and maintaining records of individuals with learning disabilities.
• Collaborating with Public Health Wales and other stakeholders to develop health promotion strategies.
• Delivering education and training to staff, carers, and service users.
• Contributing to research, audit, and service development to ensure evidence-based practice.
• Acting as a role model and mentor to junior staff and students.
• Managing own workload and responding to requests for data and reports.
• Undertaking physical tasks relevant to clinical responsibilities, including Positive Behaviour Management.

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

About the organisation and benefits

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post; please check your account regularly. The vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process. The recruitment team can be contacted at 01495 745805 option 3 or via email. We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English. If you need documents in a larger font or a different format (such as braille), please contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team. We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email. Please check your email account regularly for recruitment related correspondence.