Community Nurse - Mental Health in Learning Disability

Job summary

Have you an interest in working in the field of learning disabilities and mental health, like a new challenge?

The Specialist Mental Health in Learning Disabilities Team in the London Borough of Greenwich is looking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic learning disability/mental health nurse to join the team. We support professional development, provide high level of supervision, education, and support to new team members. We are fully integrated within the adult Greenwich Learning Disability Community Team.

This is a community based post with an emphasis on clinical work, providing specialist assessment and intervention in the management of people with learning disabilities and mental health needs; in partnership with service-users, their families, carers and other generic community health and social care providers. Caseloads consist of people with mental health problems and people with challenging behaviour or dementia. The post also involves carrying out clinical supervision, teaching staff/students.

The successful candidates will be an RNLD or RMN with experience working with people who have a learning disability and mental health problems. We are looking for people with energy and motivation who can work within a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency context, which includes working with patient's and their support networks.

For more information, or arrange an informal visit, please call Jeff Miles, Clinical Nurse Specialist on 02089214860 or 07767760548 (during work hours)

Main duties of the job

• The post holder works within the Mental Health in Learning Disability Team and is part of the wider Community Learning Disability Nursing Team in Greenwich.
• The post holder will be required to support the delivery of quality health care to people with a learning disability, their parents and carers.
• The post holder will work as part of a functional multi-disciplinary team with people with mental health and or challenging behaviour needs.
• The post holder will be expected to manage a caseload of adults working autonomously with a broad spectrum of mental health issues, providing skilled nursing support and effective planning, implementation and evaluation of interventions.
• The post holder will be expected to facilitate training and group work with clients and carers.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care