Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated, compassionate and enthusiastic Band 5 to join the Milton Keynes Community Team for Adults with Learning Disabilities (CTALD). To then develop over 24 months to a Band 6.
This post will be suitable for someone who is passionate about ensuring a high-quality holistic approach to the health care and support provided to people with Learning Disabilities in the community and enabling people to have independent choice over their own lives and health care.
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide specialist health assessments, support, and interventions for adults with learning disabilities and complex health needs.
This role involves managing your own caseload, coordinating with other professionals, and ensuring the person is at the centre of everything you do.
The key aim is to empower service users to achieve their full potential to live healthy lives and enjoy a good quality of life. This will be accomplished with a range of interventions and care packages delivered with a person-centred approach.
The post holder will work within an integrated health team, providing clinical support to adults with learning disabilities and sometimes together with autism who have additional complex needs, which may include challenging behaviour, physical and sensory impairments and mental health. The post holder will play an integral role in delivery of care within these pathways and in a variety of community settings.
Main duties of the job
·Manage a defined time limited caseload under the supervision of a senior nurse, prioritising needs and developing person-centred care plans. Ensuring effective support and timely discharge.
·Conduct holistic health needs assessments, including all psychosocial elements. Develop community care plans and risk assessments including dementia screening, mental state assessments and sex and relationship knowledge and skills assessments, amongst others. Monitoring and evaluation care plans in consultation with service users, families and carers.
·Deliver a range of specialist nursing interventions, such as administering medication/depot injections, supporting service users to manage their complex health conditions (e.g. epilepsy, diabetes).
·To support people with learning disabilities who may exhibit a range of behaviours that may challenge others including verbal and/or physical aggression. This will be within the Positive Behaviour Support framework.
·Advocate and facilitate access for service users to access mainstream health services, liaising with primary care services to ensure service users receive appropriate reasonable adjustments and support.
Working for our organisation
There’s a place for you at CNWL.
We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Communication
·To communicate effectively and compassionately with service users, families and carers. Building up positive therapeutic relationships.
·Liaise effectively with a wide range of professionals across health, social care, other agencies to ensure integrated care. Building up positive professional relationships.
·Demonstrate communication which is inclusive to meet the needs of all individuals. Consideration of accessibility, clarity, cultural sensitivity, and an understanding of diverse communication styles.
·Be able to recognise when barriers to understanding are present, and utilising a variety of resources to aid communication, including pictorial, sign along, and easy read. To also consider interpreting services when there are language barriers.
Documentation
·Ensure documentation is clear and accurate and relevant to your practice.
·To maintain accurate supervision records (junior staff and students).
·To write clear nursing care plans, risk assessments, and clinical reports when required.
Leadership and Management
·To offer support and guidance to junior members of staff.
·To undertake specific leadership roles and responsibilities within the team that have been identified by the team manager. (E.g. Health Passports and promotion of Learning Disability Annual Health Checks).
·Encourage and support innovation, promote networking and explore new ways of working and sharing of expertise.
Clinical Governance
·To comply with and implement relevant trust and national policy legislation and guidance.
·To maintain and observe confidentiality of all information relating to service users and to adhere to CNWL Information Governance Policy.
Research and Development
·To participate in and disseminate research and audit activities in line with local service priorities.
Personal and Professional Development
·Undertake activities of Continuous Professional Development, including identifying own learning needs and recording learning outcomes withing the NMC Revalidation framework.
·To assume personal responsibility for maintaining a working knowledge of new statutory guidelines that influence clinical practice.
·To participate in mandatory and statutory training.
·To review own Nursing performance through effective use of professional supervision, DPD opportunities and annual appraisal; ensuring own learning and development needs are identified.
Other
·To be flexible to additional and new ways of working within a developing Learning Disability Community Team and to stay in line with local and national initiatives and legislation.
Vaccination
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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