Senior Community Nurse - Learning Disability

Job summary

Band 7 Community Learning Disability Nurse

The Intensive Support Team (IST) is a service designed to support individuals with a learning disability who are at risk of a placement breakdown or admission to hospital. The team is expected to meet the holistic needs of service users, families and carers, avoiding placement breakdown and hospital admission where possible. Where admission is not avoidable, IST offer support into inpatient settings.

We are looking for a senior nurse with the passion, person-centred and clinical skills to join our innovative IST. IST is a multi-disciplinary team and is led by the consultant nurse, matron and psychologist. IST work in conjunction with community learning disability teams and are an addition to their offer.

The team of dedicated IST practitioners support a caseload of people who require intensive support and input. There are three locality arms of the team (Spokes) who work in partnership with local service users and key agencies providing vital support in helping people remain safe in the community.

The team also offers in-reach to those admitted to hospital working in conjunction with other learning disability teams, leading on formulation, training, and reasonable adjustments that the person might require during their stay.

The clinical development of our employees is a high priority, so the successful applicant will join a service that regularly provides clinical and career development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for providing day to day clinical and operational leadership to an all-age intensive support team.

The post requires that the enhanced model of support is delivered daily throughout the year, serving the most vulnerable people in the community, at risk of placement breakdown or admission to a mental health hospital.

The post holder will work as part of a leadership multi-disciplinary group of senior nurses and allied health professionals, to reduce avoidable admissions to hospital, breakdown of community care, and provide support for those in hospital.

The post holder will utilise sound clinical and leadership skills to ensure an evidenced based approach to delivering specialised clinical interventions that include positive behavioural support, specialised adapted mental health assessments and interventions, and robust risk management approaches.

Being a senior nurse in the IST gives you the opportunity to:

Help the most vulnerable people at risk of placement breakdown or hospital admission

Provide a variety of direct patient care interventions

Be part of an innovative team striving to ensure people receive good quality care

Develop your clinical skills around positive behavioural support, risk management, managing mental health conditions, and building independent living skills

For further information and/or an informal visit please contact us using the details provided

About us

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you'd like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Greenbank

Preston

PR1 7LY

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Greenbank

Preston

PR1 7LY

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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