Community Nurse (Band 5)

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Job summary

Band 5

We are looking for a Learning Disabilities Nurse (Or RMN with LD experience) to join Haringey Learning Disabilities Partnership (HLDP) as part of the Community Nursing Team.

Haringey Learning Disabilities Partnership consists of a range of health and social care professionals from the Local Authority, Whittington Health NHS Trust and Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust. As a combined and integrated team of professionals, there is a collective shared vision of improving the health and social care outcomes for adults in Haringey who have learning disabilities.

We are an award winning, friendly, energetic, and committed Community Nursing Team, based in Wood Green. Our team actively promotes dynamic and innovative ways of working, encouraging the ability to shape our service for the future, seeking personalised, strengths based, and person-centred approaches to care and support.

The role includes managing a diverse and varied caseload (with a range of physical and mental health needs), training delivery, as well service development opportunities. If you are a committed team player, have good time management and organisational skills, a sound understanding of the complex health needs of people who have learning disabilities, we would love to hear from you! This role is an inspiring challenge for any nurse with a holistic and service-user focused approach. The post is full time, 37.5 hrs a week (Mon - Fri).

Main duties of the job

To work as an integral member of the Haringey Learning Disabilities Partnership (HLDP), working across the mental health and physical pathway, monitoring and supporting individuals with a learning disability, and who may also have physical health needs, autism, or an additional mental health need and/or behaviours which challenge. The role involves supporting Service users and carers/providers to proactively address the mental and physical health needs, supporting access to mainstream services, ensuring robust risk management processes, and act as care-coordinator when required. The post holder will participate in teaching and learning events, including positively supporting students on placement within the team.

The post holder will have a designated caseload & will be required to conduct assessments of people with learning disabilities who present with profound multiple disabilities, underlying physical health problems, or who present with complex superimposed mental health problems and/or challenging behaviours, and when deemed appropriate co-ordinate care for a specified group of service users. Effective care planning, robust risk management, mental health monitoring, assessing capacity, and addressing health inequalities, health promotion, and reasonable adjustments, underpins all aspects of this role. An understanding of Continuing Healthcare processes, and the Transforming Care Agenda is advantageous.

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full-time

Salary

£31,163 to £37,875 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS

Closing date

01/03/2023