Learning Disability Well-Being Practitioner

As a Learning Disability Well-Being Practitioner and a member of Well -Being Practitioners Team you will play a vital role in ensuring patients with learning disabilities receive safe compassionate and person- centred care during their hospital stay. You will also support individuals with a to access acute healthcare services by delivering practical and emotional support, including one-to-one assistance during hospital appointments and admissions, promote and facilitate the use of reasonable adjustments and accessible communication tools (e.g., Easy Read materials, Hospital Passports) to reduce health inequalities and improve patient experience under the supervision of the Learning Disability Nurse., The post holder will be expected to work with patients admitted to the Emergency Department and Inpatient wards. As a member of the multidisciplinary team, delivering a high standard of evidence-based care and treatment in order to maximise each patient individual potential.
Deliver person-centred care to patients with learning disabilities and autistic people during their hospital stay.
Support registered nurses and the multidisciplinary team with clinical and non-clinical tasks.
Engage patients in activities and provide emotional support to them and their families.
Complete documentation such as Learning Disability and Autism hospital passports.
Assist with audits, surveys, and staff training across the Trust.
Communicate effectively with patients, carers, and staff, adapting your approach to individual needs.

Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream, + To assist with the delivery of health education, data collection for outcome monitoring, and behavioural support interventions under the direction of the Learning Disability Nurse Specialist and other clinical professionals. To contribute to training delivery, service promotion, and administrative tasks to support the operational effectiveness of the Learning Disability Service across the hospital.
+ Deliver therapeutic interventions that will reduce agitation and distress and promote recovery to individuals. To identify factors that increase and decrease agitation/distress for the patient. To always deliver care according to the principles of least restriction. Carrying out assigned tasks under the supervision of the Clinical Nurse Specialist delivering a high standard of evidence-based care and treatment in order to maximise each patients' individual potential.
+ To use initiative to undertake some aspects of care provision without direct supervision. Ensuring the safety and well- being of services users and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of holistic, person-centred care principles.
+ Have a good knowledge of the inequalities that someone with a learning disability may face and how to ensure equitable access to health care services within the legal frameworks.
+ Deliver care that has already been planned by a clinician or a Registered Nurse and will be skilled in taking appropriate action to ensure that outcomes are achieved.
+ Be competent, confident and adaptable and will require minimal supervision from the registered professionals.
+ Contribute to the efficient running of the service and ensure patients and their families are seen in a timely manner.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.

This role requires empathy, adaptability and teamwork. You'll need strong communication skills, the ability to stay calm under pressure, and a commitment to improving patient experience.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.