Senior Practitioner - Community (ISF)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Learning Disability Nurse to join the Intensive Support Function (ISF) Team on a 24-month fixed term contract.

The ISF for people with learning disabilities works with people who are at a significant time in their lives when they need additional support due to mental health or behavioural need.

Many of our service users have experienced physical and emotional trauma, they may have personality disorders, mental health needs, as well as a level of learning disability. In addition, they may be accommodated in services who struggle to meet their challenging needs.

The Team's overall aim is to keep people out of hospital. We aim to keep people safe, empower service users to overcome individual challenges and to provide them and their staff team the skills and knowledge needed to overcome the present challenges they face.

The team is highly skilled, passionate, forward thinking and completely person-centred. The successful candidate will work in a supportive and caring environment.

The successful candidate will be confident, dynamic, and enthusiastic so they can contribute vital intensive support that people need at this critical time in their lives.

If you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of adults with a learning disability, and those who care for them and want to contribute to an organisation which is continuously striving to improve then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for delivering high-quality clinical care and ensuring all work is needs led, evidence based and in line with current legislation.

You will also support the development of services in line with the workstreams that are the focus for the care group, which includes, mental health, forensic, physical health, neurodevelopmental conditions and cognitive impairment.

They will also be responsible for providing clinical supervision and appraisals of nursing staff within the team and supervise students while on placement with the team.

CWP hosts CANDDID, the Centre for Autism Neurodevelopmental disorders and Intellectual Disabilities, which carries out research, education and training, and all clinicians are encouraged and supported to develop research and QI skills.

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care - including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.

To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you grow and flourish with CWP.

We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.