Community Learning Disability Nurse

The Community Long Term Team ( CLTT) in Peterborough City Council (PCC) work closely with Cambridgeshire Learning Disability Partnership (LDP) to provide an integrated health and social care service for adults with Learning Disabilities living in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The CLTT aim is to ensure the assessment and provision of person-centred specialist health and social care services that promote an individual's right to choice, independence, health and wellbeing, in line with their assessed needs and enables them to reach their full potential., The delivery of specialist nursing within Peterborough , working alongside our colleagues within LDP of Cambridgeshire

• To participate in the delivery of a countywide specialist Learning Disability nursing service under the guidance of a senior Nurse.
• With support from a senior Nurse work with identified service users providing assessment, identification and treatment of the health needs of adults with a learning disability.
  
  We have an exciting opportunity to recruit an enthusiastic Band 5 Community Learning Disability Nurses to work across the Peterborough area. You will have experience relevant to working within a community-based role, supporting people with learning disabilities. As an autonomous practitioner you will manage a caseload providing assessment and interventions in relation to the health needs of adults with a learning disability.
  
  Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.