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Community Health Specialist

2 months ago


Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a skilled and compassionate Community Health Specialist to join our East North East Community Learning Disability Team on a permanent basis.

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing direct clinical care to adults with a learning disability, with the aim of improving service users' lives and preventing admissions to specialist mental health and general health hospitals.

The post holder will provide clinical and operational supervision to junior colleagues within the team, developing intervention toolkits for nurses and holding a caseload including care coordination to ensure care teams or family carers are supported to implement care and treatment as recommended.

The Learning Disability service has clear clinical governance pathways and supports professional and service development. As a Community Health Specialist, there is an expectation to contribute or lead on service development, service projects, and task groups.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for improving the health and well-being of adults with a learning disability, using their experience of leading and delivering high-quality care from relevant experience.

The candidate should be a compassionate and person-centered clinician who can carry out comprehensive, person-centered holistic assessments to a high standard.

The successful candidate will be committed to coordinating across multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams to promote and advocate the health needs of adults with learning disabilities.

We value a candidate who has experience of working in a diverse population and promoting social inclusion.

About Us

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds.

We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialized services across the country.

As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research, and development.

We offer a range of benefits, including employee wellbeing support, annual leave, flexible working, and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support, and opportunities for career development and training.

We also have an incredible bank department, offering a variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker, and administration clerical.

Permanent employees are automatically added to the bank.

Key Responsibilities
  • Highlighting and leading upon service improvement initiatives.
  • Providing support for junior staff and learners.
  • Providing evidence-based care.
  • Having experience of time management in terms of a caseload or project work.
  • Timely delivery of the nursing process in terms of assessment, planning, intervention, and review.
  • Experience of undertaking various assessments such as biopsychosocial assessments and following clinical pathways.
  • Experience of risk management.
  • Being able to work in a hybrid and flexible way.
  • Providing robust managerial and clinical supervision.
  • Professional development through accessing opportunities as identified in appraisals.
  • Developing training tools and providing training as required.
  • Having an understanding of Safeguarding principles.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Qualified and registered RNLD/RNMH

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working with people with a learning disability
  • Experience of working with a multi-disciplinary or multi-agency team

Skills

Essential

  • Must be a driver with access to a vehicle.
  • Evidence of professional development