Job summary
Band 5 Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse
The Coborn Centre for Mental Health is a Child & Adolescent Unit based at Newham that provides assessment and treatment for young people experiencing acute mental health illness.
Our vision is to provide optimum care and treatment to aid recovery and promote wellbeing prior to returning back within the community environment.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Learning Disabilities Nurse to join our busy and motivated teams across the unit.
Our aim is to deliver a patient focused care that provides patients with an opportunity to better understand the crisis or behaviour that resulted in their admission and to learn coping skills to reduce the risk of relapse.
Main duties of the job
- To co-ordinate and provide care and treatment to an identified group of patients without direct supervision.
- To manage and organise work as required.
- Take responsibility for the development and delivery of evidence based practice, ensuring that it supports and reflects service user individual needs, Trust objectives and professional guidance.
- Contribute to the development of high quality evidence based in-patient services in a changing health care environment.
- Contribute towards ensuring that the ward functions as an integral part of the Directorate's services.
- Effective communication with all relevant personnel both internal and external to the Trust.
- To practice within professional guidelines and promote professional practice in clinical area.
- To ensure continuous personal development through the utilisation of regular supervision, annual appraisal and training where appropriate.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.
For contact information please see below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.
For contact information please see below.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse (Learning Difficulty)
Experience
Essential
- Working with people with mental health problems/ learning disabilities
- Managing challenging and aggressive behaviour
- Experience of providing individualized and culturally sensitive care
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care
- Minimising clinical risk and reducing restrictive practices
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Able to manage time so that deadlines are met
Desirable
- Current Developments in nursing
- Awareness of supervision and reflective practices
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse (Learning Difficulty)
Experience
Essential
- Working with people with mental health problems/ learning disabilities
- Managing challenging and aggressive behaviour
- Experience of providing individualized and culturally sensitive care
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care
- Minimising clinical risk and reducing restrictive practices
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Able to manage time so that deadlines are met
Desirable
- Current Developments in nursing
- Awareness of supervision and reflective practices
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
