Learning Disabilities Nurse

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board; Tonteg; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent health organization in Wales is seeking a Learning Disabilities Nurse to provide specialist mental health care to young clients with learning disabilities. The role involves working closely with multi-disciplinary teams, conducting assessments, and delivering therapeutic interventions. Candidates should possess a relevant nursing degree, extensive experience with children, and communication skills. This is an opportunity to contribute to the mental health of vulnerable populations in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Generous leave

Access to ongoing learning and development

Flexible working hours

Leading pension scheme

Qualifications

• Demonstrate ability to organise and prioritise clinical commitments.
• Knowledge of safeguarding procedures for children and adults.
• Trained in a therapeutic approach(es) with training package development skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessments and manage complex client cases.
• Deliver therapeutic interventions and risk assessments.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams and external agencies.

Skills

Extensive experience with children

Highly developed communication skills

Ability to manage competing priorities

Skills in therapeutic approaches

Education

Degree Qualification RMN / RLDN

Relevant Masters' Degree or specialist training

Job description

Learning Disabilities Nurse

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This is a specialised role within CAMHS Service within CTMUHB ensuring the mental health needs are met for those with Learning Disabilities (LD), ensuring the client and carer are fully involved in the process. The post holder will integrate with education services, but will be professionally supervised by the CAMHS directorate. The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines of the LD/CAMHS framework. To support the delivery of care to a defined case load of young people across the CTMUHB area who are identified as presenting with a learning disability and mental health needs. This involves providing specialist learning disability consultation, mental health screening and assessment that will be completed in collaboration with all members of the multi-disciplinary team, CAMHS, In-reach services, other agencies, service users, their families and carers.

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn\'t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn\'t need to have skills in Welsh, we\'ll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn\'t \'fluency\', just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.

English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply

Main duties of the job

Provide and contribute to specialist assessments by drawing on their relevant professional training and expertise. This will require working with complex assessment material of clients referred to the MDT team detailed assessment of mental health need and risk.

The post holder may be case coordinator for a number of cases, collating and directing the overall team assessment.

The post holder will be responsible for presenting assessment material to the MDT/Professional group to enable team consideration of formulation and recommendation issues.

Prepare and deliver therapeutic interventions with individuals, groups, or families, as appropriate, communicating complex, sensitive condition related information to clients and their relatives, where individuals may be hostile and where there are barriers to understanding eg. Refusal to accept conditions, other mental health issues.

Deliver appropriate teaching, training and educational inputs to other professionals within CAMHS and other relevant agencies.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board, part of NHS Wales, serves a large population across a diverse and beautiful region, steeped in history and heritage. With nearly 13,500 staff, our health board is one of Wales\'s largest employers.

Together, we are Team CTM; a workforce dedicated to offering excellent patient care and support to the 450,000 people across our three regions, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We operate three District General hospitals, several community hospitals, primary and community care facilities.

CTM\'s location offers the best of South Wales, just 20 minutes from Cardiff\'s vibrant city life, the natural beauty of the Brecon Beacons, and the serene coastline at Ogmore. Whether you enjoy lively urban amenities, peaceful countryside, or seaside escapes, our location makes an ideal setting for both work and personal life.

Our CTM 2030 Strategy--Our Health, Our Future--focuses on uniting our region around shared health and wellbeing goals. Our values guide us daily:

o We listen, learn, and improve

o We treat everyone with respect

o We work together as one team

CTM employees enjoy benefits including; a leading pension, generous leave, flexible work, career growth, and access to ongoing learning and development.

At CTM, you\'ll find a welcoming, team-oriented workplace that values diversity and compassion, where you can take pride in your work and the difference it makes.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications/Knowledge

• Degree Qualification RMN / RLDN Relevant Masters\' Degree or demonstrate specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters\' Degree equivalency/ working towards. Relevant postgraduate qualification or relevant continued professional development portfolio e.g. specialist training in Learning Disability field. Evidence of post- registration continuing professional development.
• Other related academic qualifications to Masters level.

Experience

• Extensive experience of working with children and young people in a relevant setting including experience in CAMHS and another appropriate setting such as Learning Disabilities Service. Experience of working with risky clients, as well as seeing clients in in-patient and community settings, and working in the least restrictive environment. Experience of providing effective, holistic consultation to multi- disciplinary colleagues.
• Supervision of clinical staff and/or students. Experience of providing mental health services intervention within non-NHS settings such as Community or Local Authority settings.
• Highly developed skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Evidence of continuing professional development. Demonstrate ability to organise and prioritise clinical and professional commitments. Organisational ability and time management skills. Excellent oral and written communication skills including report writing. Ability to work within professional guidelines of registering body. Ability to demonstrate sound clinical knowledge and awareness of current evidence base relevant to the area of practice. Knowledge of safeguarding procedures for children and adults.
• Trained in a therapeutic approach(es). Skills in developing and co-ordinating training packages, consultation for other professionals and appropriate interventions. Ability to speak Welsh
• Welsh language speaking/listening skills at Level 3 or above

Values

• Enthusiastic, resilient, self-motivated, flexible and adaptable. Ability to manage anxiety of self and others. Able to work using own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas. Able to demonstrate good interpersonal skills. Able to communicate competently with clients, relatives and fellow staff. Able to work in situations where there is a risk of verbal and/or physical aggression.

Other

• Enhanced DBS Check Able to travel to across sites, and to visit clients at home across the area in a timely manner.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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