Senior Community LD Nurse

This Senior Community LD Nursing post will cover maternity leave for 1 year. The post will be within the Complex Physical Health nursing team, and will incorporate the following:
To provide visible, high calibre nurse leadership and support around the 'Complex Physical Health' (CPH) of Learning Disability within a multi-disciplinary framework.
The post holder will lead the development of complex physical health of Learning Disability practice, promoting the clinical and professional development of staff within the community team, to ensure they provide holistic and evidence based care.
The post holder will provide specialist assessment, intervention and management, working collaboratively with colleagues, service users, families and other agencies.
The post holder will lead on providing robust health liaison to acute and primary care to ensure our service users are able to access mainstream health services.
5. To contribute to the continuing development of the ALD Service Physical Health Group., + Apply national strategies, frameworks and plans to identifying and meeting the needs of service users in relation to their physical well-being
+ Support Social Well-Being
+ Health Promotion
+ Health Facilitation
+ Meeting Complex and Special Needs
+ Support with Medication
+ Working with Families and Carers
+ Care in Times of Transition
+ Communication in Care.
+ Working with Advocacy
+ Support to Leisure and Recreation
+ Nurse Leadership, Applies evidence based care to support physical well- being utilising LD specific and mainstream health targets.
Can assess and manage complex clinical issues in relation to service users.
Can advise and collaborate with carers, professionals and other agencies to offer support around complex clinical interventions and outcomes.
Provides and delegates care delivery to ensure that the health needs of people with learning disabilities are met.
Identify and provide appropriate support to the social well-being of individual service users.
Addresses barriers to social well-being as part of the holistic health assessment and intervention.
Liaises with multi-disciplinary colleagues and other professionals / agencies in order to address issues that create barriers to social well-being and reports on unmet need and obstacles to senior colleagues.
Employ health promotion techniques to develop the overall health and wellbeing of service users and prevent avoidable illness.
Identifies resources to enable staff to deliver specific physical and mental health promotion interventions.
Develops training for staff, users and carers around health promotion.
Facilitate service users and carers in overcoming barriers to accessing primary care and other NHS services.
Facilitates access to mainstream health care, for the majority of people with learning disabilities.
Provide intensive health care or other support to people with learning disabilities who have complex needs or who pose challenges to services.
Devises protocols and guidance around the provision of care to those with complex physical and or mental health needs or for those who challenge services.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
+ We're Kind
+ We're Fair
+ We Listen
+ We Care