Community Learning Disability Nurse

This Community Learning Disability nursing position is an exciting opportunity for a qualified nurse to join an innovative and welcoming community team in Bexley. The post holder will work alongside colleagues in the Mental Health in Learning Disabilities team together with a Consultant Psychiatrist specialising in learning Disabilities, as well as with colleagues in the Complex Physical Health nursing team. The post holder will be expected to manage a caseload of adults with learning disabilities in the community, covering both pathways. This role will enable the post holder to develop their knowledge in both specialist fields and provide valuable learning opportunities when working alongside experiences nurses and specialist support workers within this community setting.,

• The Community Learning Disability Nurse will deliver high quality, personalised, compassionate care to service users in the community, providing a range of specialist interventions.
• Ensure consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence, which comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of professional conduct.
• Lead the delivery of comprehensive service user risk assessment & care planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of service user-centred care in a range of settings.
• Provide clinical supervision and support to junior colleagues, including students.
• Assist and support the manager, as directed, to deliver a nurse-led integrated care service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.
• Maintain a safe and therapeutic working environment, working collaboratively with the Multi-Disciplinary Team and maintaining accurate records.
• Band 5 Nursing roles are only open to staff with a Nursing registration, obtained as a result of completing a qualification recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
  
  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