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
  
  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