Senior Learning Disability Community Nurse - Waveney

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust; Lowestoft; Presencial; GBP 40.000 - 48.000; A tiempo parcial

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

comprehensive in house & external培训

27 days annual leave pro rata

NHS discounts

Descripción de la vacante

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust seeks a Senior Learning Disability Community Nurse to support adults with learning disabilities in the Waveney area from our Oulton base, Lowestoft. The role is part-time, offering a varied and development-focused community nursing environment with a multidisciplinary team.

You’ll coordinate comprehensive assessments, plan and evaluate nursing interventions, and work closely with carers to deliver person-centred care across the Waveney region.

Formación

• Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse with professional registration.
• Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training.
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level (if registration follows a diploma).

Responsabilidades

• All applicants will either be registered RNLD or RMN.
• Please note, you must have a full and valid driving licence due to the community element of the role and the geographical area that the Waveney Team cover.
• The team is based in Oulton, Lowestoft and travel is expected; a vehicle is available for work purposes.
• CPD is encouraged and continuously assessed through appraisal and development plans.

Conocimientos

Excellent communication

Team collaboration

Educación

Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse

Descripción del empleo

Senior Learning Disability Community Nurse - Waveney

Are you looking for a fulfilling and varied role? Do you want to develop your career in community learning disability nursing? Are you looking for part-time working as part of your work life balance?

A rare and exciting opportunity for a Senior Community Nurse has arisen within our Waveney Community team for adults with learning disabilities.

As a team we continually strive to develop the services we offer, to ensure they're high quality and evidence based. To support our aims, we are seeking enthusiastic and highly motivated nurse to join our dynamic multi- disciplinary service. You'll be joining an innovative team of nurses, and other professionals, working collaboratively with multiple agencies and professional clinicians.

Our service covers the geographical area of the Waveney region in North Suffolk and you'll be responsible for managing a caseload from our base in Oulton, Lowestoft.

Main duties of the job

If you're able to think and work creatively with individuals and their carers - we want to hear from you!

The ideal candidate should possess excellent and varied communication skills, enjoy working as part of a team, and working closely with colleagues from a range of disciplines. You will be able to work independently, carry out comprehensive assessments and plan, implement and evaluate delivery of nursing interventions as part of the holistic approach.

You will also be able to demonstrate that you are able to apply your nursing skills to a wide range of situations, as you'll be working with a range of adults with a learning disability living within the community.

We have a culture of continued learning, including CPD sessions and opportunities for training, reflection, supervision and service development.

We place an emphasis on the importance of clinical supervision and continued professional development; we offer a variety of opportunities in a supportive, friendly and stimulating working environment. We'll support and encourage you to develop specialist experience and expertise as appropriate

About us

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We have travel links to London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa pro rata, based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more.

Job responsibilities

All applicants will either be registered RNLD or RMN.

Please note, you must have a full and valid driving licence due to the community element of the role and the geographical area that the Waveney Team cover.

The team is based in Oulton, Lowestoft and there will be an expectation of travel. Due to the nature of community health services, the successful candidate will have access to a vehicle for work purposes.

NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff. There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills.

CPD is determined through appraisal with a personal development plan agreed between an individual and their manager, with the commitment of the necessary time and resources.

Interviews are to be confirmed, candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days notice, please note this date is provisional and may be subject to change. You will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, with the relevant professional registration
• Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor training
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level ( if professional registration is following a diploma level course)

Experience

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health / learning disability practice from previous experience
• Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
• Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages
• Experience working within a learning disability setting
• experience working in a community / MDT setting

Knowledge

• An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national

Other

• Able to travel independently

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.

£39,959 to £48,117 a yeargross per annum (pro rata)