This is a rare opportunity to lead strategic change that will directly improve the lives of people with learning disabilities across east London. As our Learning Disability Lead Nurse, you'll provide expert clinical leadership across our five hospitals, supporting over 1.5 million people including some of the most vulnerable in our communities.
You'll lead a dedicated team of specialists, ensuring that patients with learning disabilities receive excellent, equitable care throughout their healthcare journey. Working closely with Trust leadership, you'll champion reasonable adjustments, develop innovative care pathways, and implement best practices that reduce health inequalities.
This post has been designed to support the continued development of high-quality nursing services to meet the holistic needs of patients with Learning Disabilities (LD). The post holder will provide leadership to the Trust’s Learning Disabilities Team. This post holder will act as expert point of contact across the Trust to deliver excellent and equitable care and treatment for patients with a learning disability. The post holder will be required to work across Barts health five Hospitals. They will be a resource of expert professional advice and contact for internal stakeholders, external stakeholders locally, across NEL and nationally, ensuring the Trust meet good practice guidance and law in relation to the care of patients with a Learning Disability.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Christopher Pinch Job title: Deputy Director of Nursing Email address: christopher.pinch@nhs.net
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