As a Learning Disability Nurse, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centered care and services to support individuals and teams. Working within a collaborative environment, you will provide essential services tailored to meet the unique needs of those we serve.
Working as a team, ensure that people who have a Learning Disability and Autism are provided with a high quality person centered approach to care delivery that always considers people’s safety, privacy and dignity.
To work within a multi-professional team in an in-patient / community setting, providing, support, care, and treatment to service users, within guidelines and protocols identified. Developing and practicing a set of therapeutic care skills, making a significant contribution to service users’ psychological, emotional and social wellbeing.
Enable service users to reach their optimum level of independence, take responsibility for ensuring service user and their relatives receive care that prioritises safety, effectiveness, partnership and hope. To provide enhanced support to our service users who often have complex needs as expected from a specialised service.
Working within Learning Disability & Autism services can be highly rewarding and fulfilling. In addition, this role has a responsibility to provide support, coaching and supervising others less experienced in the team as part of our collective goal to develop enhanced skills expected from a specialist service.
Main Responsibility
As per NMC code, to be responsible and accountable for own professional practice, working within limits of competence, standard operating procedures, policies and within NMC professional boundaries.
To be responsible and accountable for unit/service practice when identified as Nurse in Charge ensuring teamwork within their limits of competence, standard operating procedures, policies and within professional boundaries.
Mentor and teach as required with specific responsibility for supporting those less experienced providing leadership on shift and enhancing clinical practice using a ‘just culture’, compassionate leadership and coaching approach to develop and maintain the skills required within a specialist environment.
Facilitate on the unit/service a learning environment that coaches and trains others to develop advanced clinical skills e.g. specialist assessment, planning, and evaluation for service user with a Learning Disability and Autism.
To work with and provide advice to service users and carers with complex and challenging behaviours and provide appropriate interventions, implementing and reviewing progress in a range of settings.
Encourage and contribute to the improvement of service by reflecting on own practice and supporting that of others. Sharing ideas with colleagues to improve care and suggest areas for innovation.
Work in accordance with organisational, regional and statutory guidelines, as well as best practice guidance as outlined in formal benchmarks or standards (e.g. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence etc.).
The post may involve inpatient/community-based work with external trips and visits to service users in the community or their homes or day services. An ability to travel is essential.
To work with service user with complex and challenging behavior and provide appropriate interventions as directed by the nursing or wider multi-disciplinary/CTPLD team.
To rotate and ensure others work with different service users to ensure maintenance of skills and to manage own wellbeing. Qualified staff are allocated as named nurse for a service user, however, are responsible each shift for the wellbeing of all of the service users.
The Ideal Candidate
• Registered Nurse (Learning Disabilities, Mental Health or Adult) with current NMC registration.
• Teaching and assessing or ability to undertake in the post.
• Awareness of working in a Community Learning Disabilities Team or Multi-disciplinary team working.
• Awareness of working with People with learning disabilities, Autism and complex health needs i.e. physical health needs or behaviours that challenge.
• Knowledge of common health problems experienced by people with LD i.e. epilepsy.
• Knowledge and skills to undertake health assessments develop care plans and evaluate them using person-centered approaches.
• Knowledge and skills to deliver or facilitate health care according to assessed needs.
• Knowledge and competence in medication and safe administration and disposal of drugs.
• Able to develop an excellent therapeutic relationship; function as named nurse undertaking all aspects of the nursing process in order to provide best possible service user care.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to reflect on own practice.
• Multidisciplinary working communication skill.
• Person centered approaches to nursing care.
• Driving licence with access to a car.
• Driven to achieve.
• Self-motivated.
• Good time management.
• Passion to work with people.
• Ability to think of innovative ways of working to support our service users to lead fulfilled lives.
Package Description
At HCRG Care Group, we value you and your contributions, offering a range of benefits to support your professional growth and personal wellbeing:
• Competitive Pay & Pension: Receive a salary of £29,970 with Agenda for Changer terms and conditions with NHS pension.
• Professional Growth: Join our Strive for Better networks, connecting with professionals nationwide to develop and share best practices.
• Exclusive Rewards: Access discounts and offers at leading supermarkets, retailers, and experience providers through our Reward Gateway.
• Wellbeing Support: Benefit from our 24/7 free wellbeing service, including counselling, career coaching, and legal advice.
• Flexible Pay Options: Track earnings and access wages through Wagestream, providing financial flexibility.
• Learning & Development: Enhance your career with support from our Learning and Development team, access e-learning, career pathways, and funding opportunities.
• Recognition & Involvement: Celebrate achievements with local and national awards, contribute ideas for service improvements, and stay informed through regular leadership updates.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance, so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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* Job Category HCRG - Nursing and Midwifery Registered
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