Community Learning Disability Nurse in Wallsend

Job overview

Join our friendly Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. Our team is a large well established and supportive multi disciplinary team offering holistic health care to children and adults who have a learning disability living in North Tyneside.

The Ideal candidate will have an understanding of National and Local Policies relating to the management of people with learning disabilities.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

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This post will be based in our PBS team carrying out behavioural assessments and interventions for children and adults who present with behaviours that challenge.

Training will be available to successful applicants.

The post holder will be welcomed as a member of the friendly, community learning disabilities team in Northumbria Health Care Trust offering regular team meetings, robust support and supervision, and a commitment to continued professional development.

As an integral part of North Tyneside Community Learning Disability Team, the post holder will be solely responsible for a personal caseload including assessment, planning, implementing and evaluation of care.
They will be passionate about working in collaboration with service users, their family, carers and professional colleagues in order to enhance health and wellbeing, to prevent or reduce behaviour that challenges.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide a high quality community nursing service to adults and children who have a learning disability within the North Tyneside area.
• To work across Primary and secondary healthcare services to ensure equality of access for those with learning disabilities.
• To work with other agencies and services (statutory and non statutory) to ensure equality of access for those with a learning disability and facilitate effective communication between clients and other agencies.
• To provide community nursing support to adults and children who have behavioural/mental health problems. Support the design and implement Positive Behaviour Support Plans to provide intensive, proactive support and crisis intervention to patients, carers and care providers to prevent/ reduce admission to in-patient units and to maintain community placements.

• The post holder will have supervisory responsibilities for junior staff and also work within the Integrated Community Learning Disability Team ensuring the service continues to provide the highest possible of care to the patients we support.

• There is an expectation the post holder will chair, attend and contribute to all relevant meetings and be involved with service development, audits and quality improvements.

• Car driver essential.