Job overview
The Band Liaison Nurse ensures that the needs of the person with a Learning Disability are met when they require support from the Trust’s clinical services, to facilitate access to the various wards and departments and good communication between people with learning disabilities, their families/carers and expert support to Trust clinical teams. This role will provide nursing care for people with learning disabilities.
This role is to support people with learning disability to be discharge home safely.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide exceptional patient care which is underpinned by evidence based practice and OUH values.
2. To work proactively and with a person centred approach, to ensure the needs of a person with learning disabilities are identified and met, working collaboratively with carers, family and support staff.
3. Provide specialist nursing care for the team’s caseload of patients.
4. Communicate effective information to patients/relatives/carers/ and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
5. Demonstrate high standards of nursing care, reflecting the beliefs about professional nursing practice and patient care.
6. Demonstrate, develop and maintain specialist knowledge of learning disability nursing practice in order to act as a clinical expert and professional resource. Undertake the responsibilities associated with being a mentor and preceptor reflecting the beliefs about professional nursing practice and patient care commensurate.
7. Demonstrably contribute towards the continuing development of professional nursing practice in the department.
8. Conduct oneself in a professional manner and be a role model to others at all times commensurate with The Code (NMC ).
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view
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