Community Nurse Learning Disability Intensive Support Team

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Community Nurse Learning Disability Intensive Support Team

The closing date is 27 October 2025.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, Band 5 Nurse to join our Intensive Support Team (IST) for adults with learning disabilities, in Peterborough. This team offers a unique opportunity to showcase your experience and expertise in supporting adults with learning disabilities in a crisis. The successful applicant must have NMC Registration as a Learning Disability Nurse (RNLD) or Mental Health Nurse (RNMH).

The successful applicant will possess practical clinical skills; have lived experience of supporting a person with learning disabilities with behaviours of concern and communication needs. Experience of working as part of a team; undertaking holistic health care, be capable of providing accurate report writing, and understand legislation that guide practice.

You will be joining a team of motivated health professionals where we value multi-disciplinary working and continually strive to develop our skills and knowledge to meet the needs of service users in a creative holistic way using a Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) approach.

IST supports adults with learning disabilities with a diverse, range of complex needs. Our goal is to support our service users to remain in the community at a time or crisis, by offering additional mental health support, therapy, and treatment. We support the transition of service users to return from out of area placements and work closely with services supporting young people to prevent them leaving Peterborough.

Main duties of the job

The main role of a community nurse in IST is to triage and manage crisis referrals and participate in the delivery of specialist Learning Disability nursing under the guidance of a senior Nurse.

The nurse will participate in fortnightly multi-disciplinary team meetings and feedback on their caseload, they will attend other multi agency meeting within CPFT and with Key partners.

The role will include collaborative working appropriate information sharing with family, Carers, Police, and Probation, GP and other key stakeholders and partner agencies.

The role will involve participating in the writing of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) plans, and risk formulations with other team members.

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

About us

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children\’s, adult and older people\’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• The nursing role is to offer specialist support/ interventions to service users with complex needs and/or behaviours that challenge to prevent admission to hospital or to out of area placements.
• To Participate in Care Treatment Reviews (CTR) for Service Users in hospital out of area or locally in assessment and treatment services or for individuals in the community.
• To complete the dynamic Support Tool so that service users can re rated on the Dynamic Support Register (DSR) to show levels of support needed on rage a rated system.
• To regularly monitor and review medication changes with psychiatry.
• To ensure that clinical practice is evidence based and consistent with relevant NICE guidelines and Trust policies and procedure.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• RNLD / RNMH Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• Practice Assessor or Practice Supervisor or a willingness to complete this training.
• Clinical Supervision training.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Experience

• Experience of working with adults with Learning Disability.
• Experience of multidisciplinary working.
• Experience of partnership working across various statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies.
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments.
• Working in a Community setting.
• Experience of supervising junior staff.

Skills & Abilities

• Demonstrable commitment and enthusiasm for working with those with learning disabilities.
• Clear communication skills both written and verbal and able to record information clearly and accurately.
• Able to work autonomously and have the confidence to make clinical decisions.
• Able to maintain professional standards/ Able to manage pressure of working in an intensive environment.
• Able to manage conflict and change / Problem solving and reasoning skills.
• Self-management / able to manage workload. Able to undertake/seek out supervision as required.
• Practice experience in working with service users around adult safeguarding/child protection concerns.
• Practice experience of working with mental health and challenging behaviour working individuals who have a forensic background.
• Understanding of the principles of Positive Behaviour support.
• Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act (1983 / 2007) Mental Capacity Act (2005) and Children Act (1989).
• Knowledge of relevant professional Standards.
• Knowledge of the role and purpose of clinical supervision.
• Working knowledge and understanding of safeguarding vulnerable.
• Solid understanding of risk assessments.
• Awareness of current trends legislation and guidance in support for people with learning disabilities and their carers.
• Knowledge of the enabling approach to support people to meet their full potential.
• Understanding of an ability to participate in research and audit.

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.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

£31,049 to £37,796 a yearper annum pro rata