Advanced Nurse Practitioner

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced LD Nurse to join our dynamic and forward-thinking Adult Learning Disability Community Health Team in Barnsley.

The post is full time, 37.5 hours per week over five days.

The Community LD Health Team is team is looking for a highly motivated, committed, and enthusiastic Learning Disability Nurse whos passionate about delivering high quality compassionate care and can demonstrate safe clinical decision making. The post holder will be a highly skilled in the management of complex care and the health needs of people with Learning Disabilities.

The successful applicant will provide leadership and management for the nursing team whilst providing both proactive and responsive care to service users and their support networks., Leading the delivery of the nursing service within the overall locality clinical team.

Providing specialist nursing assessment and intervention with individuals professional expertise to an allocated caseload of more complex cases held by the team.

Utilising specialist and advanced knowledge of therapy models of practice to guide intervention and assessment methods appropriate to individual service user needs.

Working with service users to identify nursing goals as part of the overall care plan, using assessment tools based on current evidence based best practice.

Supporting the culture and implementation of service user led care plans to achieve therapeutic goals.

Ensuring the nursing team monitors, evaluates and modifies treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.

Working with other lead Nurses, the post holder will provide trust wide leadership and support within their own discipline and the ability to bring new creative ideas to develop the service.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We strongly discourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.