Community Nurse (Band 5)

Band 5

Contract: Permanent (Full-time)

We are looking for a Learning Disabilities Nurse (Or RMN with LD experience) to join Haringey Learning Disabilities Partnership (HLDP) as part of the Community Nursing Team.

Haringey Learning Disabilities Partnership consists of a range of health and social care professionals from the Local Authority, Whittington Health NHS Trust and Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust. As a combined and integrated team of professionals, there is a collective shared vision of improving the health and social care outcomes for adults in Haringey who have learning disabilities.

We are an award winning, friendly, energetic, and committed Community Nursing Team, based in Wood Green. Our team actively promotes dynamic and innovative ways of working, encouraging the ability to shape our service for the future, seeking personalised, strengths based, and person-centred approaches to care and support.

The role includes managing a diverse and varied caseload (with a range of physical and mental health needs), training delivery, as well service development opportunities. If you are a committed team player, have good time management and organisational skills, a sound understanding of the complex health needs of people who have learning disabilities, we would love to hear from you! This role is an inspiring challenge for any nurse with a holistic and service-user focused approach. The post is full time, 37.5 hrs a week (Mon – Fri).

To work as an integral member of the Haringey Learning Disabilities Partnership (HLDP), working across the mental health and physical pathway, monitoring and supporting individuals with a learning disability, and who may also have physical health needs, autism, or an additional mental health need and/or behaviours which challenge. The role involves supporting Service users and carers/providers to proactively address the mental and physical health needs, supporting access to mainstream services, ensuring robust risk management processes, and act as care-coordinator when required. The post holder will participate in teaching and learning events, including positively supporting students on placement within the team.

The post holder will have a designated caseload & will be required to conduct assessments of people with learning disabilities who present with profound multiple disabilities, underlying physical health problems, or who present with complex superimposed mental health problems and/or challenging behaviours, and when deemed appropriate co-ordinate care for a specified group of service users. Effective care planning, robust risk management, mental health monitoring, assessing capacity, and addressing health inequalities, health promotion, and reasonable adjustments, underpins all aspects of this role. An understanding of Continuing Healthcare processes, and the Transforming Care Agenda is advantageous.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

The post holder will be required to:

• Undertake a variety of assessments which inform the development of a person centred care plan and individual risk assessment.
• Participate in the Initial Assessment Service (IAS) or Transition Service, and be able undertake initial assessment of eligibility for the Learning disability service as required
• Undertake CPA care co-ordination; Working actively to co-ordinate complex cases, ensuring individual health needs are met, and reasonable adjustments are made
• Conduct assessments of people with learning disabilities who present with mental health and/or challenging behaviours and or a range of complex physical health needs, to identify and support the design and implementation of appropriate interventions.
• Provide advice and support to families, carers, health and social care professionals and service providers regarding the support needs of people with learning disabilities with additional health needs.
• To undertake and support capacity assessments, and best interest decision making.
• Attend/chair a variety of meetings and participate in reviews, discharge panning meetings, and other meetings as appropriate.
• Undertake assessments as required, and provide additional support and or training when issues are challenging, evaluating how interventions are going,
• Undertake CHC assessments and be able to present a robust case to panel
• Undertake and facilitate training and education as deemed appropriate
• Participate in teaching and learning events, and the education and induction of staff within the team, including positively supporting students on placement within the team.