Community Learning Disabilities Nurse

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, Supporting individuals with a diagnosis of a learning disability with mental and or physical health issues. Maintaining a caseload with support from your supervisor and team. As a team we support individuals with a learning disability with many aspects of their life such as supporting with acute physical health issues, groups and also through a variety of pathways both within the trust and external., As a supervised practitioner, to be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of the post holders own non-clinical activity.
To actively promote and ensure that all aspects of clinical care offered to people with learning disabilities are of a high clinical standard and
evidence based in line with professional codes of conduct and local policies and procedures.
To liaise with other members of the Learning Disability Team and other agencies, families and carers to support the development of Health Action Plans for people with learning disabilities incorporating specialist individual treatment plans and goals. To evaluate regularly and modify the aims and goals in consultation and agreement with the person with learning disabilities and carers.
To take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that NMC Regulations are adhered to.
To facilities access to generic services where possible and to act as a link person for Primary Care Health Services.
To carry out specific Nursing interventions for people with more complex needs in terms of health, mental health, epilepsy and challenging behaviour under the supervision of Senior Nurses.
To regularly evaluate progress using appropriate outcome measures and change care programmes within guidelines set by a Senior Nurse.
To develop and monitor written information for patients and their families and/or carers. The postholder will provide written or verbal information and reports to the multi-disciplinary/multi-agency team and other external agencies as required. To identify the need for referral to other professions and agencies as required.
To be aware of psychosocial issues, cultural and social differences and consider the implications of these when formulating a care programme.
To ensure that professional practice promotes social inclusion and is person centred at all times and to attend planning meetings and case conferences, as required.
To develop risk management plans for clients on own caseload, and with more complex clients under the supervision of Senior Nurse.
To carry out intake assessments under supervision.
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.