Job summary
**Community Learning Disability Nurse**
The Community Learning Disability Service provides integrated specialist health and social care for adults with learning disabilities in Tower Hamlets. The service also manages a specialist day activity project called CREATE.
**Key Responsibilities:**
i. Utilize specialist nursing skills to work with individuals with learning disabilities, focusing on the maintenance, promotion, and improvement of their health.
ii. Support people with learning disabilities in reaching their full potential by minimizing the impact of their impairments, which could hinder their social inclusion. This will be achieved through a person-centered approach that promotes choice, independence, and inclusion.
iii. Facilitate access to healthcare services by collaborating and partnering with primary and secondary health services, as well as other relevant organizations.
iv. Contribute to the development of local health services by shaping protocols and policies to promote an inclusive service for individuals with learning disabilities.
v. Actively participate in planning and developing shared care with primary and secondary health services, including roles such as GP Link, Nurse-Led Epilepsy Clinic, and Sexual Relationship & Health Promotion.
vi. Conduct assessments as required by the service.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a qualified learning disability nurse but work with clinical supervision provided by a specialist community practitioner in learning disability to undertake:
Promote health facilitation to reduce health inequalities for the learning disability population in tower hamlets
To use nursing skills in working with people with learning disabilities to maintain, promote and improve health.
To support people with learning disabilities to develop their full potential by reducing the impact of their impairment, that could limit their social inclusion.
To facilitate access to health services through collaboration and partnership with primary and secondary health, and other relevant services.
To use a person-centred approach to promote choice, independence and inclusion, reflecting the key principles of Valuing People Now (DOH 2011).
To contribute to shaping local health services in the way they are organised and run to promote an inclusive service for people with learning disabilities.
The role may involve undertaking a number of different assessment and reviews as per CLDS clinical pathways.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
i. To use specialist nursing skills in working with people with learning disabilities to maintain, promote and improve health.
ii. To support people with learning disabilities to develop their full potential by reducing the impact of their impairment that could limit their social inclusion in a person-centred approach to promote choice, independence and inclusion,
iii. To facilitate the access to health care services through collaborative and partnership working with primary and secondary health, or other relevant services.
iv. To contribute to shaping local health services (e.g., development of local protocols and policies), promoting an inclusive service for people with learning disabilities.
v. Actively participate in the planning and development of shared care with primary and secondary health services, e.g., GP Link Role, Nurse Led Epilepsy Clinic, and Sexual Relationship & Health Promotion etc.
vi. This role involves undertaking a number of assessments as per service requirement
vii. You will have substantial knowledge of the health and social needs of individuals with learning disabilities: awareness of current legislation and best practice in the field of learning disability nursing.
Person Specification
essential
Essential
- RNLD ( DIPLOMA or DEGREE
- Mentorship Course
- Community Specialist Practitioner - Learning disability
Desirable
- Post graduation experience of working as a nurse with people with learning disabilities
- experience of working as part of a team
- Experience of networking with other services and organisations
- Managing a caseload in a community setting
- Experience of supervising staff
- Ability to effectively undertake nursing assessment and formulate nursing interventions
- ability to organise and develop new initiatives
- ability to prioritise, manage and organise workload effectively and efficiently
- ability to provide advice and support on various aspect of health care to individuals with LD, their carers and other professionals.
- To have effective interpersonal skills
essential
Essential
- Community specialist Practitioner
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Beaumont house 2nd FLOOR
Mile end Hospital Bancroft ROAD
London
E1 4DG
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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