Working closely with our Lead Nurse for Learning Disabilities and the wider Learning Disabilities Team, you will act as a visible clinical expert, advisor and advocate, championing reasonable adjustments, reducing health inequalities, and ensuring our services meet national best practice standards.
You will support patients, families, carers and clinical teams through direct care, advice, education, training, and system improvement. Whilst this post will be based at Whipps Cross Hospital you will be required to work across Barts Health that will allow you to build strong partnerships with colleagues in acute, community, social care, and voluntary services. You will also contribute to local and national learning and innovation through active engagement in different improvement initiatives such as the LeDeR programme and the NHS England Learning Disability Improvement Standards
To deliver on-going expert clinical input for patients with learning disabilities and autism across all sites and all departments within Barts Health to reduce inequalities, safe care and improve patient experience.
To offer clinical teams in all settings across all sites, expert advice, support and education to on patients, resources and up to date guidance as it pertains to people wth a learning disability and autism to reduce harm and ensure equality of outcomes
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
This advert closes on Tuesday 12 Aug 2025 #J-18808-Ljbffr