Employer: Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Rosemount
Town: Macclesfield
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/02/2025 23:59
Specialist Community Practitioner
Band 7
Job overview
We have a fantastic secondment opportunity for a 2-year fixed term, 0.8fte, Band 7 Learning Disability Nurse within the Intensive Support Function of our Community Learning Disability Team, based in East Cheshire. As this post is fixed term, secondment opportunities can be discussed with your current manager.
You will be joining a team where person-centred care is at the forefront of everything we do.
You will be responsible for delivering high-quality clinical care and supporting the clinical leadership within the Intensive Support Function and the community nursing team, ensuring all work is needs-led, evidence-based and in line with current legislation.
You will also support the leadership and development of services in line with the workstreams that are the focus for the care group, which includes mental health, forensic, physical health, NDD, and cognitive impairment.
If you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of adults with a learning disability and those who care for them, and want to contribute to an organisation which is continuously striving to improve, then we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will carry a caseload of clients within the Intensive Support Function who have learning disabilities and the most complex needs, where a very high level of clinical expertise is required to deliver care that will reduce the risk of placement breakdown and admission to inpatient services under the Mental Health Act.
The post holder will act as a transformational role model/guide to deliver specialist learning disability assessment, intervention, and person-centred outcomes.
They will also be responsible for providing clinical supervision and appraisals of nurses within the team and supervise students while on placement with the team.
Working for our organisation
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health, and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries.
Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.
We are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We promote equality and diversity and develop a culture that values differences.
To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This programme welcomes you to CWP and provides you with information and training to support you in your role.
We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please download a copy of the job description for full details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and Behaviours which are ‘the 6 Cs’: Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion, and Commitment.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’
Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered learning disability nurse (RNLD; RNMH)
* Post registration degree level training e.g. Specialist practitioner or other equivalent degree (e.g. forensic behavioural science) or evidence of previously working at this level for a minimum of 12 months
* Evidence of post registration modules at degree/masters level e.g. mentorship module, forensic module, CBT, challenging behaviour, autism, clinical audit & research
* Nationally recognised Qualifications in challenging behaviour and/or autism (e.g. IABA; etc.)
* Nurse prescribing
Knowledge & Expertise
* Ability to assess/draw up clinical formulation
* Plan/Evaluate care to clients with complex needs
* Ability to take lead health coordination function for people with complex health needs
* Ability to undertake complex risk assessments and manage risks through coordinated multi-agency approach to care
* Ability to design individualised service specifications for people with complex needs
* Ability to design and deliver training and make formal presentations to groups of professionals, service providers, service users, and families
* Ability to support service users, their families, and carers in crisis situations
* Audit and benchmarking skills
* Demonstrates strong leadership skills and the ability to work across organisations to obtain positive outcomes for service users
* Demonstrates the ability to influence and achieve changes in practice/service delivery
* Awareness and understanding of the learning disability agenda, relevant legislation, and government policy (e.g. Mansell reports; national confidential inquiry into LD deaths; Autism act; Winterbourne view; SAF etc.)
* Working knowledge and understanding of legislation & processes relating to people with LD e.g. mental health act; Mental Capacity Act; safeguarding & deprivation of liberty safeguards
* Ability to identify areas in nursing practice for further development, and support others in process
* Ability to supervise and mentor students and other nurses
* Record Keeping and report writing skills
* Excellent communication skills (verbal and non-verbal) and ability to change style of communication to meet the audience's needs
Experience
* Some experience of working with people with a learning disability in a community setting
* Direct experience of working with clients with complex needs i.e. challenging behaviour, autism, mental health problems
* Positive attitude to people with L.D and experience of person-centred planning
* Experience in the development and implementation of complex care packages
* Experience of CHC process
* Staff Management experience (PDP’s; sickness/absence management/recruitment & retention etc.)
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Rachel Mills
Job title: Consultant Nurse
Email address: rachel.mills5@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01625 509013
If you consider yourself to be Neurodivergent and need assistance to complete your application, please contact the Recruitment Team at cwp.recruitment@nhs.net or telephone 01244 393100.
Our Consultant Nurse, Rachel Mills, or our Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Marianne Durand, are happy to discuss any aspects of this role on either 01625 509013 or 01270 656335.
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