Learning Disability Nurse Practitioner

Barts Health NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in the UK is seeking a Clinical Expert for Learning Disabilities to advocate for patients, deliver high-quality care, and educate clinical teams. You will work across multiple locations and contribute to improvement initiatives. Ideal candidates are registered nurses with experience in caring for individuals with learning disabilities and autism. This role offers a chance to make a significant impact in patient care and system improvement.

Qualifications

• Post registration experience working with learning disabilities and autism.
• Demonstrated ability to teach and support diverse groups.
• Up to date knowledge of national/local guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver equitable and safe services for patients with learning disabilities.
• Provide expert clinical input for complex patients across all departments.
• Plan, organize, and coordinate admission and discharge processes.

Skills

Communication skills

Teaching ability

Risk assessment

Person-centered care

Service development initiatives

Education

Registered Nurse Learning Disability (RNLD)

Relevant Degree or equivalent

Post registration course in physical health care

Qualification in teaching and assessing

Job description

Disabilities and the wider Learning Disabilities Team, you will act as a visible clinical expert, advisor and advocate, championing reasonable adjustments, reducing health inequalities, and ensuring our services meet national best practice standards.

You will support patients, families, carers and clinical teams through direct care, advice, education, training, and system improvement. Whilst this post will be based at Newham Hospital you will be required to work across Barts Health that will allow you to build strong partnerships with colleagues in acute, community, social care, and voluntary services. You will also contribute to local and national learning and innovation through active engagement in different improvement initiatives such as the LeDeR programme and the NHS England Learning Disability Improvement Standards.

Main duties of the job

To deliver equitable, safe, high quality services for a patients with a learning disability and autism using Barts Health Services

To deliver on-going expert clinical input for complex patients with learning disabilities (LD) and autism across all sites and all departments within Barts Health

To offer clinical teams in all settings across all sites, expert advice, support and education to make personalised reasonable adjustments and promote use of Hospital passport

To plan, organise and co-ordinate the admission and discharge process for complex patients

Deliver training to all grades and backgrounds of staff to support awareness of the needs of patients with a learning disability and autism

Work with patient advocacy groups in the community , family and carer groups, to illicit on-going feedback for improvement of hospital services in the care and treatment of people with learning disabilities and autism

To lead on regular audit, and quality improvement initiatives. Conduct research with multi disciplinary colleagues

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse Learning Disability (RNLD) Registered Adult Nurse or Registered Mental Health Nurse.
• Relevant Degree, or equivalent or working towards
• Post registration course (s) in physical health care
• Relevant qualification in teaching and assessing

Experience

• Post registration experience in working with people with learning disabilities and autism
• Supervision of others
• Multidisciplinary and multi-agency working
• Teaching a diverse range of groups

Knowledge

• Demonstrate clear understanding of the role of CNS within Learning Disability Field of Nursing within an acute hospital setting
• Evidence of keeping professionally updated
• Up to date knowledge and experience regarding national/local guidelines, and in particular relating to area of speciality with expertise in the application of the Mental Capacity Act, Equalities Act. LeDer programme
• Expert understanding and application of Safeguarding procedures related to area of speciality
• Understanding of clinical governance and risk management and application in practice
• Experience of audit/data collection
• Post graduate study in relevant field
• Previous research experience and knowledge/willingness to participate in research

Skills

• Excellent communication skills with patients, families and MDT
• Able to teach patients/families and multidisciplinary teams about the care of a patient with Learning Disabilities
• Delivery of person centred care to highly complex challenging individuals
• To co-ordinate care for complex challenging individuals
• Able to risk assess, prioritise workload and meet deadlines
• Computer literate, willingness to learn new software application and technology related to client group
• Able to innovate and influence service delivery
• Evidence of service development initiatives

Other

• Demonstable passion for the field of LD nursing and improvement in care and treatment
• Able to demonstrate enthusiasm towards teaching and sharing knowledge with team and wider Trust
• Ability to demonstrate warmth compassion and flexibility
• Ability to adapt frequently to changing circumstances
• Flexible attitude to ways and hours of working
• Ability to develop own learning needs and interests that help to improve ways of working

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.