Learning Disability Nurse
2 days ago
About the Opportunity
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Learning Disability Nurse to join our team in North and West Hampshire. This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a forward-thinking and innovative team, supporting the healthcare needs of people with learning disabilities.
As a Learning Disability Nurse, you will play a vital role in leading nursing care for service users, developing robust person-centred care plans, and managing your own caseload under indirect supervision. You will also have opportunities to supervise, mentor, and teach qualified and unqualified staff, including students.
This is a great chance to contribute towards leadership within the nursing team and wider multi-disciplinary team, demonstrating effective leadership and interpersonal skills, good communication and presentation skills, and being organised and self-motivated.
Main Responsibilities
- Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate the nursing care needs of a specific group of patients, embedded within the framework of MDT principles of working, the holistic model of care (Four Tier model), and the six areas of clinical practice.
- Supervise, mentor, and teach qualified and unqualified staff, including students.
- Co-ordinate care for a specified group of patients.
- Be a member of an integrated inter-agency, multi-disciplinary learning disability team.
- Contribute to effective multidisciplinary working within the Learning Disability team and build effective liaison with community, primary, other secondary and tertiary services and agencies to meet individual need and service development.
- Manage a caseload of patients under indirect supervision and be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, and implementing nursing treatment and care to patients within professional guidelines.
- Ensure that systems are used to incorporate any adopted models of quality assurance and governance into everyday practice.
- Act on behalf of, and report to the Charge Nurse as required.
About Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services. With a workforce of more than 7000 and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we're wholeheartedly committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities, whilst placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.
We are currently working closely with other NHS Trusts to integrate all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services. Our new organisation, to be known as Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Foundation Trust, is set to launch soon.
The transformation will happen in staggered stages; Hampshire CAMHS has already joined us, with Isle of Wight NHS Trust mental health and community services transitioning next. The final combination of Southern Health and Solent Trusts is anticipated to occur shortly, when the new organisation will be formed.
Our new Trust will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, making healthcare across the county more accessible, as well as offering staff more opportunities for career development, training and partnership working.
Salary and Benefits
This is a Band 5 post, which comes with an estimated annual salary of £32,000 - £43,041 depending on experience. In addition to a competitive salary, you will also receive a range of benefits, including pension scheme, generous annual leave allowance, and access to various training and development opportunities.
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