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Community Nurse

Employer
Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Leeds
Salary
£33,706 to £40,588 a year Per Annum
Closing date
20 Feb 2023

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Profession
Nurse, Learning disability nurse
Grade
Band 6
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
The LYPFT Learning Disability service provides multi professional, specialist health services for people over the age of 18 with a learning disability across community settings, respite and the intensive support team. The service works in partnership with key stakeholders including service users and carers, adult social care, third sector and private providers to deliver health care for people with highly complex health needs that may include; behaviours that challenge services ,sensory needs, communication needs, mental health and/or dual diagnosis and complex multiple impairment / physical health needs.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a fulltime substantive band 6 learning disability nurse to join the LYPFT Learning Disability Service in the Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT). We are looking for a dynamic community nurse whose primary role will be to work within in a Multidisciplinary team (MDT) to triage referrals into the CLDT ensuring eligibility for specialist health services. This involves liaising with service users, their carers and other people including professionals and agencies to gather comprehensive information with regard to the individual and the referral reason. This is then discussed in the MDT to determine the referral eligibility for Learning Disability specialist services and making recommendations where learning disability services are not appropriate

About us

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching,research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme (LYPFT pays 20.6% into your scheme each year), coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more organisations such as Blue Light Card, Health Service Discounts and NHS Discount Offers.

We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. Bank-only workers can choose the hours they want to work and will have the opportunity to gain additional experience, keep skills up to date, develop new ones and earn extra money without having to commit to a permanent role. For an informal discussion or more information please contact the team bankstaffingdepartment.lypft@nhs.net

Job description
Job responsibilities

There will also be opportunities to undertake direct assessments and offer interventions.

The successful candidates will be based at St Marys hospital and line managed from within the West and South CLDT. The service runs Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

The post holder will provide clinical and operational supervision to junior colleagues within the team supporting

the development of intervention toolkits for nurses and other nursing resources

The LD service has clear clinical governance pathways and supports professional and service development. As a band 6 there is an expectation to contribute or lead on service development, service projects and task groups. Robust supervision structures are in place with 1:1s with support from the Specialist Nurse Practitioner, peer support through weekly MDT meetings and community nurse meetings.

The candidate should have a passion for improving the health and well-being of adults with a learning disability, using their experience of leading and delivering high quality care from relevant experience. For this role you will need to be a compassionate and person-centred clinician who can carry out comprehensive, person-centred holistic assessments to a high standard. You will need to be committed to coordinating across multi- disciplinary and multi- agency teams to promote and advocate the health needs of adults with learning disabilities. We would value a candidate who has experience of working in a diverse population and promoting social inclusion.
  • Highlighting and leading upon service improvement initiatives
  • Providing support for junior staff and learners
  • Providing evidence-based care
  • Having experience of time management in terms of a caseload or project work
  • Experience of undertaking various assessment such as biopsychosocial assessments and understanding clinical pathways
  • Experience of risk management
  • Being able to work in a hybrid and flexible way
  • Look to provide robust managerial and clinical supervision
  • Professional development through accessing opportunities as identified in appraisals
  • Developing training tools and providing training as required
  • Having an understanding of Safeguarding principles.


Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
  • Must be a Registered nurse RNLD preferred

Experience
Essential
  • Experience of working with people with a learning disability
  • Experience of working with a multi-disciplinary or multi-agency team

Knowledge
Essential
  • Evidence of professional development


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173-12023-LDS

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