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Senior Children's Community Learning Disability Nurse
The closing date is 03 November 2025
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust are a great place to work and has a sound future as a leading provider of excellent services. The Trust invests in its staff and seeks to provide them with opportunities for training and personal development.
An opportunity has arisen with the service, for a Band 6 Senior Children's Community Learning Disability Nurse post to work within the Specialist Community Learning Disabilities Team based in Barrow and covering South Cumbria and Lancaster and Morecombe and therefore must be able to travel independently of public transport. We are looking for a highly motivated and a conscientious team player who has excellent communication and clinical skills, looking to build experience in working with community teams.
The Children's Learning Disability Service strives to provide forward-thinking high-quality services, working in partnership with other agencies. In addition to working with adults with learning disabilities and autism, we work closely with their families, and we have a strong commitment to health promotion through service development and training initiatives. We are committed to helping our staff develop and you will be part of an enthusiastic and experienced team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work within an integrated health team, providing clinical support to adults with learning disabilities who have additional complex needs, which may include challenging behaviour, physical and sensory impairment, mental health and forensic issues. The post holder will play an integral role in delivery of care within these pathways within a variety of community settings.
As a band 6 senior Children's community nurse you will be expected to support the clinical activity of the teams in meeting the needs of local people with learning disabilities in the community. You will have skills in working with adults with learning disabilities, and associated communication and behavioural needs. The post holder will undertake delegated duties by senior nurses and will be accountable to the operational/clinical leads and will be providing administrative support within the integrated health team, to ensure effective and timely clinical outcomes are met.
It is expected you will be able to use IT clinical record systems.
Applicants must be NMC registered.
Applicants need to have the ability to travel within LSCFT.
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job responsibilities
For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.
Qualifications
* Part 5 or 14 of NMC register
* 2- 3 years' experience as registered nurse or equivalent
Knowledge
* Ability to support people who have a learning disability/complex needs on an individual and group basis
* Knowledge of Autism Spectrum Disorder and how to undertake assessment and support children and young people with ASD
* Knowledge of relevant contemporary health policy
Experience
* Experience of working in community setting
* Experience of working with children and young people who have learning disabilities and/or autism
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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