Senior Community Learning Disability Nurse

This is an exciting opportunity and your expertise will be essential in supporting the changes in the nursing team and providing leadership for the nurses.

The service offers standard and enhanced pathways and will be more responsive and accessible, providing specialist health assessments, support, and care for adults aged 18 and over. Care will be provided in a community setting, close to people’s homes.

The Nursing Team have implemented the Moulster and Griffiths Nursing model, a specialist evidence-based, person-centred model to provide holistic care to those accessing Nursing support. Positive Behavioural Support also underpins person-centred care, in line with National agendas.

As a service, with a wide range of professions, we work, learn and combine our expertise together, providing high-quality integrated community, mental health, and learning disability services across Sheffield and are looking for someone who shares our values and committed to helping improve the lives of the people we support.

We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families. The transformation has been co-designed and co-produced with stakeholders both internal and external to our organisation, alongside experts by experience, carers and service users., The post holder will:

• Hold a clinical caseload as allocated by the Team Manager

• Deliver a nursing service within the framework of a multi-disciplinary team and provide specialist learning disability services to adults with learning disabilities and complex healthcare needs and/or behaviours that may challenge others

• Contribute to the training and development of other health services, agencies and individuals involved with people with learning disabilities.

• Keep up to date with current trends, or developments, that affect services offered to people with learning disabilities.

• Undertake post-registration training and continue professional and personal development.

• Report any complaints, compliments and service deficiencies in accordance with Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures.

• Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of work.

• Develop a working knowledge of relevant procedures including Mental Capacity Act and other legal frameworks in line with government and local policy

• To contribute to the Learning Disability Service on call rota as required.

The LD Service operates from 8am to 8pm and staff will be expected to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service and be able to travel independently across two bases: Firshill Rise and Grenoside Grange

Working for our organisation

At SHSC, we prioritise the well-being and safety of both our service users and employees. It is our policy and a condition of employment that all employees must join the DBS Update Service. This service carries an annual fee, which employees are responsible for paying up front. However, employees may claim this cost back through the Trust’s Employee Expenses Reimbursement Policy. For those requiring a Basic DBS check, it is necessary to register for a DBS Online Account., * Develop links with primary and secondary health care services in order to maintain effective care pathways, and compliance with local and national strategy.

• Actively promote service user and family involvement in complex care planning.

• Undertake screening assessments in determining eligibility for the service and ensure any unmet or ineligible needs are forwarded to the relevant agency.

• Assess and manage complex clinical issues in relation to service-users; can advise and collaborate with carers, professionals and other agencies around complex clinical interventions and outcomes.

• Identify and evaluate specific service users needs through specialist assessment including identifying where a standard or enhanced response is required.

• Work within a Positive Behaviour Framework to assess, monitor and formulate positive behaviour support plans that aim to improve quality of life for the service user and their carers.

• To ensure the effective application of the Mental Capacity Act.

• Ensure nursing assessments include consent, safe administration and medication monitoring and reporting.

• Use a range of specialist assessments to identify needs for service users including both physical and mental health or other complex needs and to support and mentor other nurses’ development in this area.

• To ensure the process of referral, assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation of care is efficiently and effectively delivered with clear quality outcomes. This includes implementing first and/or urgent assessments as required

• To develop a plan of care as appropriate to meet the health needs of the person with learning disabilities.

• Identify service user related training required by other agencies in order to ensure appropriate person-centred care delivery facilitating access to this internally or via links with external NHS colleagues or providers.

• Contribute to safeguarding investigations as required.

• Utilise evidence-based practice, policies and procedures and the management of risk.

• Make clinical judgements based on specialist knowledge

• Adhere to own professional code of conduct/practice and all organisational policies and procedures.

• Be responsible for prioritising own workload and delegating to/supporting others.

• Demonstrate ability to work as part of a team but is also competent and confident to work independently, providing expert advice to all allied health professionals.

• Take the lead in organising and chairing multi-agency meetings relevant to complex physical and emotional health needs.

• Develop, implement, and review risk assessments for all clinical work-based activities – including those with service-users.

• Contribute to planning and organisation within Community Learning Disability Service.

• Participate and on occasions take the lead on good practice initiatives in consultation with the Clinical Nurse Specialist.

• To implement clinical and operational policies and procedures.

Managerial

• Act as an effective role model by demonstrating professional

competence.

• To deputise for the team manager / clinical nurse specialist as required.

• To provide supervision, including caseload management, and appraisal to more junior staff.

• To participate in the recruitment of staff.

• To participate in monthly managerial and clinical supervision with the Team Manager and Clinical Nurse Specialist respectively.

• To identify service deficiencies and offer options for intervention/problem solving in collaboration with the Lead Learning Disability Nurse/Integrated Team Manager.

• To ensure equipment and clinical records are stored and maintained correctly.

Education, Training and Development

• To be responsible for organising and delivering training events.

• Participate and on occasions take the lead on good practice initiatives with support from the Team Manager / Clinical Nurse Specialist.

• To contribute to service development initiatives.

• To support junior staff regarding the implementation of service developments and improvements.

• To promote best practice in supporting people with a learning disability who have complex physical and emotional health needs.

• To contribute to the development of tools/resources/service policies which meet divisional, trust and national objectives for example CQC.

We are looking for an innovative, skilled, compassionate Learning Disability Nurse for our new Specialist Community Learning Disability Service as a Senior Community Learning Disability Nurse.