Job summary
Were looking for a compassionate Band 5 Learning Disabilities Community Nurse to join our Specialist Learning Disabilities Complex Health Needs Service.
Our Learning Disability, Autism and Neurodiversity division supports adults across Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire. We are committed to person-centred care, helping individuals lead meaningful lives with choice, control, and inclusion in their communities.
As part of our multidisciplinary team, you'll work alongside experienced nurses and clinical specialists to provide assessments, therapeutic interventions, and ongoing support for people with complex needs including those with challenging behaviours, mental health conditions, and profound disabilities.
This is a rewarding opportunity to be part of a supportive, innovative service, with chances to collaborate across health and social care settings. The post is full-time (37.5 hours/week), Band 5 (£29,970 £36,483), with preceptorship available through the Learning Enterprise.
Main duties of the job
This role offers a rewarding opportunity to work closely with health and social care professionals, supporting individuals with complex needs such as dementia, epilepsy, behaviour management, and mental and physical health conditions. You'll contribute to key areas like hospital admissions and discharges, Continuing Health Care.
You'll work alongside a wide multidisciplinary team across primary, secondary, and tertiary care, and engage in eligibility assessments with experienced colleagues.
You'll help promote health and well-being by reviewing care plans with individuals and their carers, encouraging independence, and supporting access to mainstream health services to reduce health inequalities. Your responsibilities will include managing a caseload, supporting care planning, medication management, and offering education around healthy lifestyles.
The role also involves supporting behavioural and epilepsy reviews, delivering training in areas such as dementia and bowel management, and feeding back clinical observations to relevant professionals.
You'll participate in multi-agency meetings, safeguarding work, and contribute to pathways like dementia, mental health, and end-of-life care. Regular supervision, peer forums, and ongoing professional development are provided, along with involvement in audit and data collection for local and national reporting.
This is a chance to make a meaningful impact while growing professionally within a supportive team.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will feel valued as a Band 5 Community Nurse within our Learning Disabilities Complex Health Needs Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 5 AfC salary and terms and conditions including an NHS pension
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Free parking
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Essential
- A Nursing qualification recognised by NMC.
- Current registration.
- Experience and knowledge of learning disabilities and or autism.
- Knowledge of current legislation and related policies.
- Excellent communication and literacy skills.
- Experience of working in community settling and MDT.
- Motivation
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Knowledge of MCA
Desirable
- Excellent skills in accessible information.
- Problem solving skills.
- Ability to evaluate and reflect on practice.
- Experience of Safeguarding.
- Experience of epilepsy; challenging behaviours; CHC.
Other Requirements:
- Driving licence and own care as post is community based covering remote and rural locations.
- The role is full time 37.5 hours per week Mon Fri 9.00 am 5.00 pm
For more information please contact Tracy Rose at tracy.rose@hcrgcaregroup.com
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will feel valued as a Band 5 Community Nurse within our Learning Disabilities Complex Health Needs Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 5 AfC salary and terms and conditions including an NHS pension
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Free parking
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Essential
- A Nursing qualification recognised by NMC.
- Current registration.
- Experience and knowledge of learning disabilities and or autism.
- Knowledge of current legislation and related policies.
- Excellent communication and literacy skills.
- Experience of working in community settling and MDT.
- Motivation
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Knowledge of MCA
Desirable
- Excellent skills in accessible information.
- Problem solving skills.
- Ability to evaluate and reflect on practice.
- Experience of Safeguarding.
- Experience of epilepsy; challenging behaviours; CHC.
Other Requirements:
- Driving licence and own care as post is community based covering remote and rural locations.
- The role is full time 37.5 hours per week Mon Fri 9.00 am 5.00 pm
For more information please contact Tracy Rose at tracy.rose@hcrgcaregroup.com
Person Specification
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Person Specification
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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.
