Senior Nurse Practitioner

The Community Learning Disability Service provides integrated specialist health and social care to adults with learning disabilities in Tower Hamlets. Additionally, the service is responsible for the provision of a specialist day activity hub - CREATE.
An exciting vacancy opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 specialist nurse within our Mental health and Behavioural Support team. This team focusses upon supporting people with learning disabilities who have enduring mental health problems and/or require specialist interventions around behaviours that others find challenging., You will be expected to:
To use advanced specialist nursing skills in working with people with learning disabilities to maintain, promote and improve health.
To support people with learning disabilities to develop their full potential by reducing the impact of their impairment that could limit their social inclusion in a person-centred approach to promote choice, independence and inclusion,
To facilitate the access to health care services through collaborative and partnership working in developing shared care with primary and secondary health services e.g., GP Link Role, Nurse Lead Epilepsy Clinic, and Sexual Relationship & Health Promotion etc.
To contribute to shaping local health services (e.g., development of local protocols and policies), promoting an inclusive service for people with learning disabilities.
This role involves undertaking assessments of individual's potential eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding in accordance with the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare.
You will have substantial knowledge of the health and social needs of individuals with learning disabilities: awareness of current legislation and best practice in the field of learning disability nursing.
To work collaboratively with the Lead Nurse to provide a high standard of clinical leadership to staff within the Community Nursing Team to ensure effective multi-disciplinary working.
To lead on transforming care and to offer consultation to inpatient wards.

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations., Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations., Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.