Registered Nurse - Learning Disability

Transformation Unit; Hornsea; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Part time

Job summary

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a part-time Registered Learning Disability Nurse (24 hours) to join our home and enhance the existing nursing team. You will work with the multidisciplinary team to improve the lives of residents with profound learning disabilities and complex healthcare needs.

We offer training to support high-quality clinical nursing care, flexible working arrangements where possible, and opportunities for career development within a forward-thinking NHS Trust.

Qualifications

• Evidence of good time management skills.
• Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures.
• Ability to manage daily operations and maintain a safe working environment.
• Part III or 13 of NMC live register.
• Willingness to undertake mentorship training and responsibilities.
• Degree/diploma in Learning Disabilities or Adult nurses.
• Be on the live register for mentors.
• Evidence of current CPD/formal qualifications at an advanced level (e.g., degree or postgraduate level).

Responsibilities

• As part of the clinical team, the working hours are 07:00 to 19:30, with night shifts 19:00 to 07:30.
• We will consider flexible working arrangements to support both you and the home.
• There is a wealth of training available to support you in delivering high-quality clinical nursing care.

Skills

Time management

Trust policies and procedures

Daily operations and safety

Education

NMC registration Part III/13

Degree/Diploma in Learning Disabilities or Adult nursing

Job description

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019

Job overview

Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HTFT would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a part-time, 24-hour post for a Registered Learning Disability Nurse to join our home and contribute to, and enhance, our existing nursing team. This is a unique opportunity for any Learning Disability Nurse not only to join a unique service within the Trust's portfolio, but also to develop their clinical portfolio of skills.

Working alongside the Registered Manager, Deputy Managers, Learning Disability Nurses, Adult Nurses, and with support from the multidisciplinary team, you will help to enhance the lives of people with profound learning disabilities and associated complex healthcare needs.

Main duties of the job

• As part of the clinical team, the working hours are 07:00 to 19:30, with night shifts being 19:00 to 07:30. There is an expectation that you are able and available to work both shift patterns, including unsocial hours, to maintain an overview of residents' clinical needs during both the day and night.
• We will consider flexible working arrangements to support both you and the home.
• There is a wealth of training available to support you in delivering high-quality clinical nursing care, enabling residents to live a life that is well lived and loved, while taking into account their complex care needs.

Working for our organisation

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information with regards to the is advert please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Skills and Competence

• Evidence of good time management skills
• Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures
• Ability to manage daily operations and maintain a safe working environment

Experience

• Appropriate knowledge/experience of working in Learning Disabilities
• Evidence of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
• Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Part III or 13 of NMC live register
• Willingness to undertake mentorship training and responsibilities
• Degree/diploma in Learning Disabilities or Adult nurses
• Be on the live register for mentors
• Evidence of current CPD/formal qualifications at an advanced level e.g. degree or post graduate level or equivalent knowledge/experiential learning

Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.

This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.

Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.

If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.

We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post.Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.

IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.

If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

On 1 July 2024, NHS England strengthened its commitment to supporting employees already working for the NHS who wish to embark upon an apprenticeship to aide career development.

To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria)

This change supports exiting NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.