Job summary
Are you an experienced and dedicated Registered Nurse with expertise in learning disabilities and mental health? We are seeking a highly motivated Band 7 Learning Disability Specialist Nurse to join our dynamic Learning Disability Community Treatment Team. This post is for 30 hours per week. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the provision of high-quality, specialist care for individuals with learning disabilities who also present with complex mental health needs.
In this pivotal role, you will act as a clinical leader and expert resource, working collaboratively across pathways to ensure the delivery of person-centred, safe, and effective care. You will have key responsibility for leading service development initiatives, facilitating and chairing complex risk forums, and conducting comprehensive, complex risk assessments to inform care planning and management. Your leadership in these forums will be instrumental in ensuring robust multi-disciplinary decision-making and safeguarding practices.
Your contribution will be essential in improving clinical outcomes, reducing health inequalities, and promoting autonomy and quality of life for individuals with complex and diverse needs.
Main duties of the job
The Specialist Nurse provides high-quality, compassionate care to adults with complex needs, working autonomously within Trust guidelines. They deliver advanced nursing interventions, manage complex risks, and support multidisciplinary teams. The role includes facilitating access to primary care, addressing health inequalities, and ensuring holistic responses to dual diagnoses. The nurse leads on clinical audits, promotes best practices, and contributes to staff training, supervision, and service development. Collaborating with Clinical Leads and Pathway Managers, they support performance and project planning to improve service quality, ensuring care is empathetic, respectful, and centred on recovery, wellbeing, and independence.
About us
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 28th August 2025
Closing date : 4th September 2025
We welcome your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 28th August 2025
Closing date : 4th September 2025
We welcome your application.
Person Specification
Education & Qualification
Essential
- First Level Nursing Qualification and Registration
- Degree or equivalent qualification or experience in evidence based psychological therapies relevant to Pathway.
- Safeguarding Children and Adults Training
- ENB 998/P126/127
- Student Nurse Assessor
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Participate in Joint Development Reviews.
- Collaborative working across agencies and professional disciplines including MDT settings
- Coordinating and supporting staff in the day to day provision of clinical services.
- Knowledge and Understanding of equal opportunities legislation and policies.
- Experience of collaborative working across agencies and professional disciplines.
- Experience in carrying out research.
- Proven ability to manage a clinical caseload in a flexible manner as required.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision to clinical staff.
- Knowledge of health and safety requirements of the team.
- Teaching /Training Experience of developing Care Pathways.
- Experience and Application of Audit process and its evaluation.
- Experience in managing Complex Cases and Risk.
- Knowledge and understanding of Recovery and Wellbeing model and its application.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills including negotiation and conflict management.
- Evidence of effective organisational skills.
- Evidence of Leadership Skills.
- Expert Clinical Supervision.
- Evidence of maintaining accurate and contemporaneous record keeping.
- Evidence of excellent Report writing.
- Evidence based clinical/psychological skills and advanced nursing practice.
Personal Characteristics
Essential
- Open and non-judgemental, anti-discriminatory approach to clinical, managerial and leadership roles.
- Friendly, outgoing, approachable, confident manner.
- Flexible and adaptive.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Reliable.
- Proven record of treating people with Dignity and Respect.
- Caring and Compassionate.
- Innovative and creative.
- Ability to motivate others Motivated and enthusiastic.
Person Specification
Education & Qualification
Essential
- First Level Nursing Qualification and Registration
- Degree or equivalent qualification or experience in evidence based psychological therapies relevant to Pathway.
- Safeguarding Children and Adults Training
- ENB 998/P126/127
- Student Nurse Assessor
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Participate in Joint Development Reviews.
- Collaborative working across agencies and professional disciplines including MDT settings
- Coordinating and supporting staff in the day to day provision of clinical services.
- Knowledge and Understanding of equal opportunities legislation and policies.
- Experience of collaborative working across agencies and professional disciplines.
- Experience in carrying out research.
- Proven ability to manage a clinical caseload in a flexible manner as required.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision to clinical staff.
- Knowledge of health and safety requirements of the team.
- Teaching /Training Experience of developing Care Pathways.
- Experience and Application of Audit process and its evaluation.
- Experience in managing Complex Cases and Risk.
- Knowledge and understanding of Recovery and Wellbeing model and its application.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills including negotiation and conflict management.
- Evidence of effective organisational skills.
- Evidence of Leadership Skills.
- Expert Clinical Supervision.
- Evidence of maintaining accurate and contemporaneous record keeping.
- Evidence of excellent Report writing.
- Evidence based clinical/psychological skills and advanced nursing practice.
Personal Characteristics
Essential
- Open and non-judgemental, anti-discriminatory approach to clinical, managerial and leadership roles.
- Friendly, outgoing, approachable, confident manner.
- Flexible and adaptive.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Reliable.
- Proven record of treating people with Dignity and Respect.
- Caring and Compassionate.
- Innovative and creative.
- Ability to motivate others Motivated and enthusiastic.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
