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Lead Nurse in Learning Disabilities, Autism and STOMP

Employer
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Location
London Bridge
Salary
£58,698 to £65,095 a year pa
Closing date
14 Aug 2024
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We are thrilled to present an exceptional fixed-term senior nursing opportunity within the Southeast London Integrated Care System. We are actively seeking an experienced and autonomous nurse to join our LD and Autism (LDA) team, focusing on nursing care in STOMP and working towards reducing unnecessary psychotropic drugs for our primary care service users.

As the ideal candidate, you should be self-motivated and possess extensive experience working with LDA service users in the community or primary care settings. Your expertise in service user case management and supporting NHS England's STOMP and STAMP priorities will be essential. Additionally, you should have experience in specialist assessment, intervention, and treatment evaluation for LDA service users, as well as a track record of managing complex caseloads and engaging with multi-disciplinary clinicians and service users.

A secondment opportunity is available for current SLaM and Oxleas employees. Joining our team provides an exciting opportunity to actively contribute to the reduction of psychotropic drug use among individuals with learning disabilities and autism, enhancing their overall well-being.

Main duties of the job

If you are looking for a challenge and ready to undertake a specialist role then this may be just the job for you :

Responsibilities for this role include:
  • Acting as the clinical nursing lead for LDA and STOMP, supporting nursing care strategies in STOMP across all six boroughs in SEL ICS.
  • Conducting timely assessments for service users referred to the STOMP pathway, facilitating care planning and support during medicine optimization.
  • Leading nursing care for LDA service users before and during the reduction or optimisation of psychotropic drugs.
  • Engaging with key team members, stakeholders, LDA service users, their carers, and GPs to facilitate relevant treatment plans, policies, and interventions related to nursing.
  • Embedding audit and training programs to improve the competencies of primary care network clinicians in nursing and STOMP.
  • Receiving clinical supervision from nurse consultants from MHLD in SLaM and CLDT in Oxleas. The post holder will have access to peer support from both teams, as well as the ICS STOMP team.


About us

The South East London Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together the health and care partners that serve our vibrant and highly diverse populations of residents in the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, and Greenwich - our Places.

Our partnership brings together six local authorities, over 200 general practices (operating within 35 Primary Care Networks), Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS FT, King's College Hospital NHS FT, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, South London and the Maudsley Mental Health FT and Oxleas FT. Importantly, the ICS seeks to be connected to the communities we serve (circa 1.92m residents) and work with the widest possible range of community, voluntary, and third-sector groups and organisations in each borough. The reach of our NHS provider portfolios extends beyond the borders of the ICS, across London, the south of England, and nationally for some services.

Our vision for the ICS is a highly performing, sustainable system that looks after its staff, responds to its communities and takes action to reduce the inequalities they experience. As a new organisation we have developed a system development planSouth East London ICS - Integrated Care System (selondonics.org)that outlines the way in which we seek to operate and the steps we will take to realise the full potential of our partnership.

Job description

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 overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree or master's qualification and knowledge acquired through experience or training. Registration with the NMC
  • Evidence of continued professional development


Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team and extensive experience of working with people with a learning disability, autism and mental health problems
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
  • Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community and primary care settings.
  • Leadership abilities within own profession and beyond


Desirable

  • Experience in non-medical prescribing


Knowledge / Skills

Essential

  • Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
  • Knowledge of Mental and Physical health and people with Learning Disabilities and the inter dynamics of these
  • Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
  • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.


Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

160 Tooley Street

London Bridge

SE1 2HZ

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

334-NUR-6346272-LF

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