Qualified Nursing Associate

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; North East; Sur place; GBP 27 000 - 32 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 4 Nursing Associate to join the DTV Adult Learning Disabilities Physical Health Team. You will support the CNS in delivering the STOMP agenda across primary and secondary care, promoting safe, person-centred care for people with learning disabilities.

You will contribute to medication reviews, health monitoring and information gathering, provide reasonable adjustments, coordinate MDT work, and deliver training to services and

Responsabilités

• Support CNS in delivering STOMP agenda across primary and secondary care
• Contribute to medication reviews and physical health monitoring
• Gather information and provide reasonable adjustments
• Deliver training and awareness initiatives
• One-to-one support for patients with changes in physical health
• Advise, support and signpost health and social care colleagues
• Advocate and promote the needs of people with learning disabilities across health services

Description du poste

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a experienced Band 4 Nursing Associate to join the DTV Adult Learning Disabilities Physical Health Team. The team provides specialist advise and support to both people with a learning disability and health services to reduce the health inequalities and premature mortality that people with a learning disability face. The postholder will support the Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in delivering the STOMP agenda across primary and secondary care services within County Durham, promoting the appropriate use of psychotropic medication for people with learning disabilities. Working under the direction of the CNS, the role will contribute to medication reviews, medication and physical health monitoring, information gathering, reasonable adjustments, MDT working, and the delivery of training and awareness initiatives to support safe, person-centred care, reduce health inequalities, and improve outcomes., The Nursing Associate will support the Physical Health Team and wider learning disability community teams, Local Authority Colleagues and in liaison /partnership with primary and secondary care services, using a Person-Centred Approach to enable and support adults with learning disabilities and their families and carers to promote the health needs of people with a learning disability and enable access to wider services. This will include

• Supporting with a wide range of health promotion projects
• Liaison with health and social care services
• Supporting with reasonable adjustments to enable access to the right care and support
• Training and education for services and carers
• One to one support for patients who have changes in physical health and/or need support to navigate health services.
• Advice, support and signposting health and social care colleagues
• Advocate and promote the needs of people with learning disabilities across health services.
  We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for. We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health. We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.