Physical Health Liaison Learning Disability Nurse / Practitioner

To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of junior and support staff in the team is of the highest standard of clinical care To manage caseload and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements. Ensure up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place. Work with individuals and their carers to identify their healthcare needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand and manage these needs. Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet peoples identified needs and manage risk. To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making,
both within the Learning Disabilities Team and with external agencies. Provide management and clinical supervision to junior staff in line with the Trust policies and protocols for supervision, appraisal and mandatory training. Day to day management of staff and coordination of the clinical activity and workload. To delegate aspects of the service user treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate. To act as duty worker during working hours on a rotational basis with colleagues. To provide advice for individuals with a learning disability referred to the community team to support their physical healthcare needs through liaison with primary and acute health services. To support individuals with learning disabilities to have their health needs met across all health care settings, including planned admission to hospital. This will extend to support people with a learning disability through palliative care.
The core hours of the role are 9am-5pm Monday to Friday but there may be the need on occasions to work flexibly to support the service. To provide advice and support to clinicians working with people with a learning disability across the entire health community of Lincolnshire. To ensure a high standard of clinical practice and that clinical skills are updated as required. To provide ongoing support, training and liaison to ULHT services and GP practices. This will include providing ongoing training on learning disabilities, validating the QOF Learning Disability Register and to support the uptake of annual health checks To undertake audit and participate in research. Contribute to student training, both university & multi-professional, by supporting the service to be a high-quality placement.