Band 6 Community Learning Disability Nurse

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

The closing date is 06 April 2025

Job summary

The role of the community LD nursing team is to support the holistic delivery of care to service users across a range of needs.

The role of a community learning disability nurse involves improving or maintaining a persons health, reducing barriers to them living an independent life, supporting the person in living a fulfilling life, improving the well-being and social inclusion of people with a learning disability, offering help and support to their family and carers and health facilitation.

As a band 6 community learning disability nurse, your role will involve completing the following tasks:

To work autonomously taking responsibility for care, quality and clinical activity for a designated caseload / team.
To contribute to care quality performance and clinical activity by providing professional nursing leadership and guidance, clinical advice, and management in relation to the key dimensions of health care quality:
Patient safety The effectiveness of all health care interventions Patient experience The environment in which are is delivered
To participate in the effective clinical leadership and management of the team.
To actively contribute to the improvement of the service and quality of care provision to meet the needs of patients, service users and their families.

As part of this role you will be required to hold a valid UK driving license and have access to your own vehicle, which requires business insurance.

Main duties of the job

Co-ordinate, prioritises, facilitate and monitor the delivery of care for patients on a designated caseload and to other patients as deemed appropriate.
Act as a professional and clinical role model to all staff, patients, carers and the public at all times.
Supervise the performance standards of own team members where appropriate.
Maximise use of clinical and staff resources, implementing best practice in patient pathways, admission and discharge arrangements.
Plan and promote the development of new services within the designated area.
Maintain efficient and effective communication on issues related to patient care, caseload and organisation management.
Participate in staff recruitment and selection processes and wider recruitment and retention strategies.
Act in a professional manner and ensure self and colleagues adhere to the LPT Uniform Policy at all times.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Date posted

24 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

003152

Job locations

Winstanley Drive Health Centre

Winstanley Drive

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 1PB

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Qualifications

Essential

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please review the attached job description and person specification. This document outlines the full range of criteria that are required for the role. In your application, you can state how you meet the criteria in the job description and person specification

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.