Community Nurse Learning Disabilities

We are looking for a Community Learning Disability Nurse, Band 6, 37.5 hours per week, permanent contract, to work in our Community Team for People with Learning Disabilities in the Reading locality. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a wide range of people with many diverse and complex needs. This isa great opportunity to work in the community providing you with a unique opportunity to develop and learn within the learning disability service. You may already be a learning disability nurse working with people with a learning disability and are looking to take the next step into a community multi-disciplinary team, looking for a new challenge. Then why not contact us if you are ready for a new challenge. You will be expected to do some of your visits remotely & face-to-face, working in a multi-disciplinary team approach, including working with private care providers and families. The ability to educate and influence is therefore essential. BHFT is a forward-looking Trust pursuing staff engagement. It is committed to a health promotion agenda and has is entirely a non-smoking environment. It also has active BAME and LGBT groups which are supported at the highest levels. As a Trust we support our staff on-going personal developments, yearly appraisals, regular clinical supervision with the senior learning disability nurse and encourage career development and training to enable you to keep up to date with the current healthcare standardsMain duties of the job

• To manage a caseload
• To contribute to comprehensive specialist nursing assessment
• To promote and facilitate access to primary and secondary healthcare for individuals with a learning disability including health checks and health action plans
• To provide specialist advice and therapeutic interventions to parents and carers of people with a learning
• To provide and facilitate health education and promotion to include both individual and group work
  
  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
  
  Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites