Band 5 - Learning Disability Nurse

Job summary

As a Learning Disability Nurse, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centered care and services to support individuals and teams. Working within a collaborative environment, you will provide essential services tailored to meet the unique needs of those we serve.

Working as a team, ensure that people who have a Learning Disability and Autism are provided with a high quality person centered approach to care delivery that always considers peoples safety, privacy and dignity.

To work within a multi-professional team in an in-patient / community setting, providing, support, care, and treatment to service users, within guidelines and protocols identified. Developing and practicing a set of therapeutic care skills, making a significant contribution to service users psychological, emotional and social wellbeing.

Enable service users to reach their optimum level of independence, take responsibility for ensuring service user and their relatives receive care that prioritises safety, effectiveness, partnership and hope. To provide enhanced support to our service users who often have complex needs as expected from a specialised service.

Working within Learning Disability & Autism services can be highly rewarding and fulfilling. In addition, this role has a responsibility to provide support, coaching and supervising others less experienced in the team as part of our collective goal to develop enhanced skills expected from a specialist service.

Main duties of the job

As per NMC code, to be responsible and accountable for own professional practice, working within limits of competence, standard operating procedures, policies and within NMC professional boundaries,

To be responsible and accountable for unit/service practice when identified as Nurse in Charge ensuring teamwork within their limits of competence, standard operating procedures, policies and within professional boundaries,

Mentor and teach as required with specific responsibility for supporting those less experienced providing leadership on shift and enhancing clinical practice using a just culture, compassionate leadership and coaching approach to develop and maintain the skills required within a specialist environment,

Facilitate on the unit/service a learning environment that coaches and trains others to develop advanced clinical skills e.g. specialist assessment, planning, and evaluation for service user with a Learning Disability and Autism,

To work with and provide advice to service users and carers with complex and challenging behaviours and provide appropriate interventions, implementing and reviewing progress in a range of settings.

Encourage and contribute to the improvement of service by reflecting on own practice and supporting that of others. Sharing ideas with colleagues to improve care and suggest areas for innovation

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2