Senior Learning Disability Nurse (Band 6) - Learning Disability/Mental Health - Norfolk and Suf[...]

Main area: Learning Disability/Mental Health

Grade: Band 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working (37.5 hours per week, shift working, service hours 7am - 9pm x 7 days per week)

Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 gross per annum (pro rata)

Closing date: 10/07/2025 23:59

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.

Job overview:

We are looking for an experienced Band 6 Learning Disability or Mental Health Nurse to join the Intensive Support Team in Suffolk. As an all age service, we would like to hear from people with experience in working with adults or children who have a Learning Disability and/or Autism. The Intensive Support Team forms part of the Acute Service in partnership with the Assessment and Treatment Inpatient Unit who are co-located in Ipswich.

The role will be to support prevention of admission or care breakdown by understanding the function of behaviour that challenges, using Applied Behavioural Analysis and a Positive Behavioural Support approach. We also support timely and secure discharges from inpatient units by working across into the Inpatient Service during stays in hospital.

The Intensive Support Team is part of the Learning Disability and Autism Pathway, which has a fresh approach to ideas and service delivery being supported by the Trust. We are a vibrant, creative, multi-disciplinary team that works closely with other services, both statutory and in the private and voluntary sector.

Main duties of the job:

• Participating in functional assessments of behaviour
• Participation in analysis of assessment findings
• Participation in formulation, conclusions and recommendations
• Working with people directly in their homes or in hospital settings
• Reviewing risk assessment and crisis response if required
• Helping carers and families implement recommendations (this can also include delivering training)
• Acting as the Shift Co-ordinator - taking responsibility for the smooth running of the shift, delegation of duties, making decisions in relation to issues that arise, reviewing risk

Working for our organisation:

Here at NSFT, we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us?

We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk?

The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work directly with service users in their homes, hospital or educational provisions. The area of coverage is across Suffolk. You will have an opportunity to establish relationships with carers, service users and other involved professionals, as well as undertaking longer term assessments around functions of behaviour and participating in formulation and analysis.

The overarching aim is to try to understand the function of behaviour that presents challenge to others. Often these behaviours risk care or education breakdown and impact negatively on service users' quality of life. We aim to implement strategies and recommend approaches that either avoid or lessen the impact or help service users put in place different ways of getting their identified need met. Improving the quality of life for people with learning disabilities or autism is at the heart of what we do.

There will be some supervisory responsibilities for Clinical Support Workers or Assistant Practitioners within the team. IST is a welcoming and vibrant multi-disciplinary team who work on a shared team caseload basis.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Person specification:

Qualifications:

• Nursing degree or equivalent RMN or Learning Disabilities

Experience:

• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
• Previous experience in learning disability
• Previous community experience
• Previous experience working with people with Autism

Skills and Knowledge:

• Able to demonstrate the ability to process, plan and delegate work
• Up to date and evidence-based knowledge of Person Centred Care
• Working knowledge/application of the Mental Health Act/Mental Capacity Act

Your application:

We can provide all our job application materials in alternative formats so that these are accessible to everyone. Should you require any documents within this job pack in an alternative format, please do not hesitate to contact us at recruitment@nsft.nhs.uk.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES:

Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief. As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification). We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:

This post may be 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.

Employer certification/accreditation badges:

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.