The post is a 12 months fixed term position, created to cover a permanent staff member on secondment.

The post holder will be working as a member of the multidisciplinary health team in Brent. The team provides a specialist service to adults with learning disabilities in a range of community environments across the borough of Brent.

The post holder, as part of the Community Learning Disability Health Team is responsible for providing high standards of clinical assessment and intervention relevant to their specialist area. S/he will work with a range of other professionals, including physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, nurses, psychiatrists, social workers and a range of other carers and community staff. S/he may encounter a wide range of physically and emotionally challenging conditions in the clients' homes and other environments in the community. The post will involve working in a range of community environments including client's homes in Brent.

Main duties of the job

Provide appropriate support and contact for service users, taking into account their health, social and cultural needs, through thorough assessment and planning of the client's health needs.

Ensure that clients are consulted about their care at all times and are involved in decision-making concerning their care.

Carry out risk assessments for clients in line with the Trust and other relevant policies and procedures.

Develop and maintain innovative and creative ways of working with clients who are difficult to engage.

To provide clinical supervision to junior staff and students.

Ensure that accurate clinical notes are kept and audited to ensure compliance with records keeping standards of the Trust and LD Service.

Take responsibility for ensuring that clinical practices are in keeping with relevant legislations and policies, and follow best practice guidelines.

Be professionally accountable for own practice to your head of profession. Ensure that service users and their families are fully involved in the provision of care and services.

About us

Why work with our team

• In this post, you will be providedadditional supervisionand support as well ascommunity LD specific training.
• We offer opportunities tostop, and reflect through our regular Reflective Practice sessions.

• Our retention rates are fantastic and we have a lot to be proud of as a service. When people leave us, they do so for the right reasons. The top 3 being promotion, further education and retirement.

• Commitment from the team todevelop you as a practitionerby offeringcoaching,supervision development,reflective practiceandin-house developmentsessions
• Our service is based on the outskirt suburb areas of London. Brent offers a green scenery surrounded by beautiful parks and is well connected with good transport links including train links and buses taking you right outside our office and on site parking available at Kingswood Centre.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work as an integral member of the learning disabilities team enabling people to access where appropriate mainstream health services.To manage a caseload of clients with learning disabilities who have a range of health needs, using evidence-based/person-centred principles to plan, implement and evaluate interventions within the CLDT.

Please refer to the attached JD for full details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Current Professional Registration and qualification in Nursing RNLD
• Evidence of post registration training and continuing professional development in mandatory and statutory areas , such as safeguarding, Mental Capacity Act, including capacity assessments, Mental Health Act, Health and Safety, Manual Handling, Infection Control, Emergency First Aid, Confidentiality and CPA or willingness to undertake training in these areas, relevant to your professional registration

Desirable

• Evidence of post registration training and continuing professional development in areas relevant to Learning Disabilities such as challenging behaviour, autism and mental health problems

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Paid/unpaid relevant to job

Essential

• Previous experience of working with Learning Disabilities service users collaboratively to form care plans
• Previous experience of working with people who have learning disabilities, serious and enduring mental health problems, challenging behaviour in a variety of different settings (e.g. community and inpatient) for people with learning disabilities
• Post registration experience of working in Learning Disabilities

Desirable

• Supervision of students and junior staff.
• Previous experience of delivering teaching sessions to a variety of audiences
• Previous experience of delivering evidenced successful care packages

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES

Essential

• Possess extensive knowledge of CPA, with the ability to assess, implement, plan and evaluate care.
• Possess extensive knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 and 2007 amendment including supervised community treatment, The Mental Capacity Act 2005 including capacity assessments and the attendant Codes of Practice
• Demonstrate good understanding of issues around the delivery of learning disabilities services to a diverse multi-ethnic population within an inner city/urban geographical area.
• Ability to carry out risk assessment Sound evidence of good clinical skills/knowledge base particularly in the areas of risk assessment, care planning, care implementation and co-ordination.
• Demonstrate excellent problem solving skills and the ability to reflect, make safe clinical decisions and act on own initiative.
• To have proven ability in the use of IT systems
• Understanding of own professional code of ethics
• Knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures regarding both children and adults

Desirable

• Knowledge of recent and current issues in learning disabilities and their impact on community mental health care,
• Evidence of the ability to conduct research/audit and the implementation of evidence based clinical practice
• Appropriate knowledge of medicines management according to expected role

ATTITUDES, APTITUDES PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

Essential

• Excellent communication and teamworking skills with an ability to convey enthusiasm, a positive working attitude, flexibility of approach, openness to new ideas and different ways of working.
• Possess excellent negotiation skills.
• Time management skills and ability to organise and prioritise conflicting demands

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kingswood centre

134 Honeypot Lane

Brent

NW9 9QY

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333-J-BR-0684