Senior Learning Disability Nurse Practitioner

Duties and Responsibilities

• Communication and Working Relationship Skills
  • Contribute to the team's engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, service users, their carers, and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies.
  • Impart complex and sensitive information to patients and families/carers regarding assessment, care planning, treatment, and review.
  • Communicate with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent, well-coordinated care.
  • Liaise with primary care teams regarding client care and external agencies involved in the provision of care.
  • Engage with service user/carer groups.
  • Liaise with a wide range of other professionals and agencies.
  • Contribute to the safe and effective day-to-day operations of the service including the handling of clinical inquiries.
• Analytical and Judgemental Skills
  • Practice in a way that actively minimizes dependency and promotes recovery.
  • Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for service users and carers.
  • Aim to uphold the principles and approach of CPA, whether people are formally in CPA or not.
• Work Co-operatively
  • Work co-operatively with staff colleagues including accepting staff's recent assessment of the client.
  • Ensure a duty of care to your patients and clients, who are entitled to receive safe and competent care.
  • Consider the service user's wishes, feelings, values, and beliefs as well as the views of the people close to them.
  • Take personal accountability for your own practice.
• Planning and Organisational Skills
  • Attend management and professional meetings as directed by their line manager and professional lead.
  • Responsible for planning and coordinating own day-to-day workload in collaboration with the needs of the service users and the wider needs of the service.
  • Plan and organise case conferences liaising with other agencies as required.
  • Ensure that interventions are planned and care plans developed in an integrated and coordinated manner.
• Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment & Therapy
  • Maintain a caseload of appropriate clients.
  • Responsible for developing care packages including assessing, planning, intervention, and evaluation.
  • Triage referrals by assessing and advising on eligibility criteria.
  • Provide specialist advice to referrers/other multi-disciplinary staff and care providers.
  • Participate in reviews in accordance with Care Programme Approach.
  • Promote medication concordance and administer medication as required.
  • Participate in safeguarding children to level 3.
  • Coordinate the care of an individual on the caseload where appropriate.
• Responsibility for Policy and Service Development Implementation
  • Participate in programmes of audit and research within the team and implement the findings.
  • Contribute to professional clinical governance arrangements.
  • Participate in the development of Specialist Learning Disability Services.
• Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and Other Resources
  • Responsible for care of own equipment.
  • Where appropriate, handle or process cash or patients' valuables.
• Responsibility for Human Resources
  • Provide information, education, and advice to carers, families, and providers.
  • Supervise junior qualified staff in the process of triage and assessment.
  • Provide clinical supervision for a number of staff.
  • Periodically coordinate the activity of the team and facilitate team meetings.
  • Mentor students allocated to the team.
  • Take a clinical lead in the absence of the team leader.
• Responsibility for Information Resources and Administrative Duties
  • Ensure timely, accurate, clear, and concise records are maintained.
  • Provide supervision and leadership for band 3/4/5 staff where appropriate.
• Responsibility for Research and Development
  • Assist with research programmes within the Trust, service, and team when appropriate.
• Freedom to Act
  • Work under the direction of the team manager but able to work autonomously using own initiative where necessary.
  • Responsible for fulfilling responsibilities as outlined in the job description.
• Any Other Specific Tasks Required
  • Comply with any reasonable request from the team manager or other senior clinical staff.
• Review of this Job Description
  • This job description is intended as an outline indicator of general areas of activity and will be amended in the light of changing service needs.
  • This job description is to be reviewed in conjunction with the post holder on an annual basis.