Senior Practitioner (Nursing)

NHS; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity presents itself within the NHS as a Senior Practitioner specializing in learning disabilities. The role involves delivering care, providing clinical supervision, and contributing to the strategic development of community services in Milton Keynes. Candidates with leadership skills and extensive experience in the NHS are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with extensive post registration experience.
• Experience working with learning disabilities and managing challenging behavior.
• Proven leadership and team management experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver care and treatment for service users with learning disabilities.
• Provide clinical supervision and training to nursing staff.
• Coordinate care with multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Supervision

Care Management

Team Collaboration

Psycho-education

Education

Degree or Diploma relevant to the field of Learning Disability

Current UK NMC Nurse Registration

Leadership training

Further training relevant to the care of clients with Learning Disability

Job description

Go back Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Practitioner (Nursing)

The closing date is 16 July 2025

The successful candidate will be a registered nurse with extensive post registration experience and a special interest in working with people with learning disabilities; they will evidence a positive approach and a commitment to the development of staff and themselves.

The post holder will have the relevant qualifications and demonstrable experience in the delivery of community learning disability services.

Main duties of the job

• To deliver care and treatment for service users with Learning disabilities and their carers.
• Liaising with other professionals to contribute to the establishment or continuity of care across relevant services.
• To provide clinical supervision, consultation and training to nursing staff in the case management of service users.
• To support the team with training, consultation and workshop delivery to partners, eg GPs, third sector colleagues, social care.

About us

The Milton Keynes Community Team for Adults with Learning Disabilities (MK CTALD) is an integrated NHS and Local Authority service. We are looking for an experienced nurse to join our dynamic multidisciplinary team.

This is an exciting opportunity to supervise our team of community nurses and contribute to the delivery of learning disability services in Milton Keynes.

Working to maintain and improve the health and wellbeing of our service users the post holder will work with them to address health inequalities, prevent hospital admissions, and facilitate hospital discharge.

Job responsibilities

1. Clinical Responsibilities:

• To conduct psychologically informed assessments, care planning and considering treatment options, in collaboration with service users, carers and members of the multi-disciplinary team

To deliver and co-deliver brief interventions identified for service users

To provide clinical supervision and consultation and training to staff in delivering care for people with Learning disabilities

• To receive supervision and be part of weekly MDT team discussions.

Contribute to strategic developments by working with medical, clinical and operational leads

Contribute towards the development of effective training plans and lead on team building, when requested to promote an open, honest, supportive, forward and outward looking working environment, facilitating new ideas suggestions or debate in relation to the service requirements

To provide liaison to inpatient wards to consult on the management of people with Learning disabilities, as and when indicated

To provide consultation to GPs in the management of people with Learning disabilities and to advise on reasonable adjustments, as and when indicated

To be involved in co-delivering structured group based treatments

To be available to receive clinical supervision from the multi-disciplinary team and clinical supervisors

To keep accurate written and electronic records, including care documentation and risk assessment, and write reports

To identify safeguarding issues and demonstrate an understanding of safeguarding legislation and its implementation

To engage in clinical work that will be emotionally intense and where behaviour and communication might be unpredictable

To use reflective practice with colleagues and in clinical supervision, to process the emotional impact of the work and remain consistent and constant in the treatment process

To ensure that continuity of care is maintained and that appropriate and timely plans are made for the discharge of patients from the inpatient facilities ensuring Section 117 and CPA responsibilities are discharged

• To assist and provide teaching to health faculties/other multidisciplinary professionals of the specialist treatment methodology developed to support service user

2. Team Responsibilities:

To work independently as well as in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team

To work alongside other senior team members in the Milton Keynes Learning disability community team to co-ordinate the day-to-day work, specifically in relation to the Nursing pathway

To contribute to the strategic development of the team

To attend specific team meetings, supervision and staff support

To work with other agencies (e.g. in-patient units, A&E department, social care etc) in planning and delivering care

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current UK NMC Nurse Registration
• Further training relevant to the care of clients with Learning Disability
• Leadership training
• Degree or Diploma relevant to the field of Learning Disability

Experience

• Extensive post qualifying experience in the NHS.
• Experience of working therapeutically with people with Learning Disability and challenging behaviour
• Experience of conducting robust assessments, group work, risk assessment
• Experience of managing co-existing issues (mental health, substance misuse,neurodiversity)
• Experience of supervising staff and students
• Experience of improving team performance and meeting service objectives
• Experience of teaching / training others
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Active participation in service planning and delivery
• Knowledge of Psycho-education
• Experience of using PBS interventions with people with learning Disability
• Experience of clinical audit

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.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust