Learning Disability Nurse Enhanced Health in Care Homes Team

Job summary

People living in care homes should expect the same level of support as those living in their own homes. The national framework for Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) provides steps to achieve this, through collaborative working between health, social care, voluntary, community and care home partners - National EHCH Framework.

The EHCH model moves away from traditional reactive models of care delivery towards proactive care, centred on the needs of individual residents, their families, and care home staff.

You will be a qualified learning disability nurse who will undertake appropriately delegated work. You will be a key member of the EHCH team and will work with the team to support person centred care plans. You will be responsible for promoting the completion of Annual Health Checks, liaise with GPs to support attendance of individuals with a learning disability at the AHC appointment and provide individual health facilitation advice where needed.

The role is a fixed term contract ending on and although advertised as full-time, part-time applications will be considered.

Interviews will take place on Monday 23rd September.

If you have any queries regarding the role please contact Louise Sproat on

Main duties of the job

The postholder will work alongside Care Co-ordinators to coordinate and communicate individual care plans with system partners and develop relationships with care homes, community teams, mental health services, palliative care services, social services, and secondary care frailty teams, to enable residents to meet their health goals and be cared for in their preferred place of care.

You will follow standard operating procedures within the limits of your defined clinical competence, and this will be reviewed regularly as the role evolves. You will work within your team and have the opportunity to escalate concerns and complexities to the multi-disciplinary team meetings.

The role will also include working with the Primary Care Network (PCN) to identify gaps within local service provision and work to reduce health inequalities within the learning disability provision. This may include supporting GP practices within the PCN to complete annual health checks for the learning disability population who do not reside within care homes.

As the role evolves it will lead to education sessions in a group setting exploring health education, screening processes and conditions within the learning disability population.

About us

Southport and Formby Health is a dynamic and expanding GP federation, working with Southport and Formby Primary Care Network (PCN) and other system providers to provide high quality, integrated, patient services. We are commissioned to provide the Enhanced Health in Care Homes Specification across Southport and Formby.

'This is an excellent opportunity for the successful individual to develop skills, knowledge and experience working with other clinical team members and across multiple PCN teams to support the health and wellbeing of our care home residents. Individuals with learning disabilities suffer some of the greatest health inequalities and one of the priorities of the role will be to reduce any inequalities within our remit as much as possible.' - Maggi Bradley, PCN Clinical Nurse Lead

We are hoping a Learning Disability Nurse will join our team - this is an exciting opportunity to work within a dynamic team and workplace. The successful individual will bring their experience, knowledge and expertise as we develop and enhance the care we give to our care home residents who have a learning disability. This opportunity will help reduce health inequalities, develop communication resources to support care planning and raise awareness of services available to support our care home residents.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The dutiesand responsibilities of the Learning Disability Nurse are to:

-Have experience of working with learning disability patientswithin the community and/or healthcare settings.

-Understand the care home provision in the locality and offerclinical support and direction to care home team members.

-Seek to educate and inform care home team members to assistwith excellent care provision for residents.

-Complete Holistic Assessments within care homes specialisingin the learning disability provision.

-Make independent clinical decisions/judgements based onpatients clinical needs, request investigations/ tests, carry out whennecessary, and review the management plan following.

-Provide individualised, proactive care plans for residentsliving in care homes specialising in the learning disability provision whilstworking with the other members of the EHCH team and considering thechoices and needs of individualresidents, their families, and care home staff.

-Consider anticipatory clinical management planning, when appropriate,to support with hospital admission avoidance, and advocate for expressedpreferred place of care for individuals.

-Use digital technology to support the recording ofassessments and facilitate the medical input.

-Work collaboratively with colleagues within the EHCH team andother clinicians in acute and community settings as part of an integratedsystem that puts patients and their families/carers at the forefront ofmanagement plans.

-Identify and/or engage in locally organised shared learningopportunities as appropriate and as capacity allows.

-Support with the development and production of learningresources to improve patient experience within GP practices and care homes, forexample assisting with the five rights campaign.

-Develop links with local support groups to ensure thatpatient voices are heard, for example People First Merseyside.

-Work with the Primary Care Network (PCN) to identify gapswithin local service provision and work to reduce health inequalities withinthe learning disability provision. Thismay include supporting GP practices within the PCN to complete annual healthchecks for the learning disability population who do not reside within carehomes.

-Work with the PCN on increasing the uptake of screeningprovision within the learning disability population, particularly care homeresidents, specifically around cancer priority areas such as bowel, cervicaland breast screening.

-As the role evolves it will lead to education sessions in agroup setting exploring health education, screening processes and conditionswithin the learning disability population.

-As the role evolves it will lead to supporting reasonablyadjusted vaccination clinics for those with learning disabilities and complexneeds.

The postholder will:

-Embed the core NMC values and expectations of care,compassions, courage, communication, commitment, and competence into everydaypractice.

-Utilise excellent interpersonal and communication skills,provide enhanced discussions with resident and family regarding end of lifewishes/planning

-Motivate others by influencing and inspiring others in newenhanced ways of working

-Highly developed interpersonal skills, negotiation, conflictmanagement, feedback, partnership working, and coaching skills

-Communicate with stakeholders and convey complex messages todifferent recipient groups.

-Develop effective and mutually supportive relationships withkey partner organisations.

Person Specification

Other

Essential

Disclosure Barring Services (DBS) check as defined Car driver

Sills

Essential

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, provide enhanced discussions with residents and families around their personalised care Highly developed interpersonal skills, negotiation, conflict management, feedback and partnership working Strong IT skills

Qualifications

Essential

Current qualification/nurse registration with NMC Demonstration of CPD and revalidation

Personal Qualities

Essential

Ability to support people who have a learning disability on an individual and/or group basis Have a shared vision for better care for people with a learning disability Embed the core NMC values and expectations of care, compassion, courage, communication, commitment and competence into everyday practice Ability to motivate others by influencing and inspire others in new enhanced ways of working. Ability to communicate with stakeholders and convey complex messages to different recipient groups, in particular those with learning disabilities Able to develop effective and mutually supportive relationships with key partners within and without organisations Able to organise and manage your own time and workload Ability to recover and recuperate quickly from difficult or challenging situations

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

Knowledge of up to date learning disability policy Knowledge of EMIS clinical software Experience of recording care plans electronically

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