Acute Liaison Nurse

4 weeks ago


Stevenage, United Kingdom Hertfordshire County Council Full time

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join Hertfordshires Community Learning Disability Nursing service in Hertfordshire County Council. As a Band 6 Acute Liaison Nurse you will work within the Health Liaison Team supporting people with learning disabilities when they are admitted to a general hospital.

Main duties of the job

As an Acute Liaison Nurse, you will be working within the general hospital to offer your learning disability expertise to reduce the risks of poorer outcomes for people with learning disabilities admitted into hospital for emergency or planned admissions. Your skills in adapting and creating the right approach for the individual will help the person with learning disabilities, your clinical colleagues, and paid/family carers to get the best outcome from their hospital admission. You will be working closely with the Safeguarding Teams and Senior colleagues to develop and progress the Hospital Improvement Standards embedded into the Learning Disability Action Plan. You will be working with Junior colleagues in the team and provide leadership and clinical supervision.

About us

HCC is a great organisation to work for and as a nurse in the service you will have all the benefits of the NHS Agenda for Change terms and conditions and be nurtured to grow in confidence and skills. You will receive a £1000 Welcome Payment on passing your Probation and be able to build your skills alongside the variety of nurse roles within HCC.

Job description

Job responsibilities

We require people who can be creative and flexible to different approaches for different situations as no day as an Acute Liaison nurse is the same. You will need to be able to demonstrate an ability to travel to the hospital sites and HCC office sites in a timely way.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Qualified Registered Nurse (at least 2 years experience post registration) Some Learning disability experience Ability to travel to alternative sites within reasonable timescales Multi-disciplinary Team working experience Able to cite evidence-based practice

Desirable

Car driver, with access to a car Experience as a nurse supervisor Community-based health care experience Knowledge of social model of disability Teaching skills
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