Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a registered nurse to join the Learning Disability Liaison Nurse Team in Oxford. If you are passionate about supporting people with learning disabilities access healthcare and aspire to provide person centred care in an acute hospital setting, we invite you to apply for this role.
You will have the opportunity to work in an experienced and skilled team, delivering high quality patient care across emergency departments, inpatient and out-patient settings within the John Radcliffe Hospital, Horton General Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Churchill Hospital.
Alongside the clinical element of the role, you will have the opportunityto develop your skills and experience in delivering training, audits, quality improvement projects and policy and pathway development.
Main duties of the job
The liaison nurse ensures that the needs of the person with a learning disability are met when they require care from the Trust’s clinical services, to facilitate access to the various wards and departments and ensures good communication between people with learning disabilities, their families/carers and Trust clinical teams.
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.
3. To working collaboratively with carers, family and support staff and ensure care is co-ordinated across agencies.
4. Provide specialist nursing care for the team’s caseload of patients.
5. Communicate effective information to patients/relatives/carers/ and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
6. Contribute to the development of services.
7. Demonstrate, develop and maintain specialist knowledge of learning disability nursing practice in order to act as a clinical expert and professional resource.
8. Undertake the responsibilities associated with being a mentor and preceptor reflecting the beliefs about professional nursing practice and patient care commensurate.
9. 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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