Primary Healthcare Liaison Nurse – Learning Disabilities
NHS AfC: Band 7
Main area: Primary Care Liaison Nurse Learning Disabilities
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment)
Hours: Part time, 15 hours per week (2 days across Monday-Friday, flexible)
Job ref: 319-6993266KD
Site: Community Learning Disability Team
Town: The Green, Wallsend
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/03/2025 23:59
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost-effective living, great nightlife, and some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
* Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
* A range of flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside.
Job overview
To provide a nurse liaison service within a large multi-disciplinary Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT) in North Tyneside. Helping to embed the physical health and wellbeing needs of all patients across all disciplines and teams within CLDT and supporting community services to promote health and wellbeing and address health inequalities for people who have a learning disability.
The post-holder will work across GP practices and community services, maximising access to primary care services to increase positive health outcomes and decrease health inequalities taking into account reasonable adjustments.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
* Increase access to primary care services in North Tyneside to improve patient outcomes and decrease health inequalities.
* Improve the quality of care received by individuals with a learning disability in the primary care settings in North Tyneside.
* Provide advice regarding assessments of special needs such as mental capacity and mental health act assessments.
* Manage the interface between primary care services and the rest of the health economy in collaboration with acute liaison nurses.
* Develop effective and collaborative working with healthcare and multi-agency colleagues.
* Increase the knowledge and skills of the wider CLDT service to ensure physical health and wellbeing is prioritised.
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
* Current entry on NMC register – learning disabilities – RNLD
* Advanced Practice with specialist knowledge in the provision of care for people with learning disabilities.
* Registered Mentor - Assessing and mentoring qualification
* Teaching Qualification
Experience and knowledge
* Advanced Clinical Skills in the field of Learning Disabilities.
* Practice experience at a minimum of Band 6 or above.
* Extensive Community experience.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post.
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