Main area Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm) Job ref 110-NMR356-0825
Employer Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Employer type NHS Site Tonteg Hospital Town Tonteg Salary £48,527 - £55,532 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 21/08/2025 23:59
Learning Disabilities Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 7
Thank you for your interest in joining Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board.
Located in the heart of South Wales, we’re central to Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea. Deeply rooted in our community, as an NHS organisation we are dedicated to providing compassionate patient care and building healthier communities together.
At CTM, you’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive team from diverse nations, cultures, and backgrounds. Every role counts, every person matters, and together, we’re creating a space where everyone can thrive.
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The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable.
Job overview
This is a specialised role within CAMH Service within CTMUHB ensuring the mental health needs are met for those with Learning Disabilities (LD), ensuring the client and carer are fully involved in the process.
The post holder will integrate with education services, but will be professionally supervised by the CAMHS directorate.
The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines of the LD/CAMHS framework.
To support the delivery of care to a defined case load of young people across the CTMUHB area who are identified as presenting with a learning disability and mental health needs. This involves providing specialist learning disability consultation, mental health screening and assessment that will be completed in collaboration with all members of the multi-disciplinary team, CAMHS, In-reach services, other agencies, service users, their families and carers.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Main duties of the job
Provide and contribute to specialist assessments by drawing on their relevant professional training and expertise. This will require working with complex assessment material of clients referred to the MDT team detailed assessment of mental health need and risk.
The post holder may be case coordinator for a number of cases, collating and directing the overall team assessment.
The post holder will be responsible for presenting assessment material to the MDT/Professional group to enable team consideration of formulation and recommendation issues.
Prepare and deliver therapeutic interventions with individuals, groups, or families, as appropriate, communicating complex, sensitive condition related information to clients and their relatives, where individuals may be hostile and where there are barriers to understanding eg. Refusal to accept conditions, other mental health issues.
Deliver appropriate teaching, training and educational inputs to other professionals within CAMHS and other relevant agencies.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
* We listen, learn and improve
* We treat everyone with respect
* We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
Qualifications/Knowledge
* Degree Qualification RMN / RLDN Relevant Masters’ Degree or demonstrate specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters’ Degree equivalency/ working towards. Relevant postgraduate qualification or relevant continued professional development portfolio e.g. specialist training in Learning Disability field. Evidence of post- registration continuing professional development.
* Other related academic qualifications to Masters level.
Experience
* Extensive experience of working with children and young people in a relevant setting including experience in CAMHS and another appropriate setting such as Learning Disabilities Service. Experience of working with risky clients, as well as seeing clients in in-patient and community settings, and working in the least restrictive environment. Experience of providing effective, holistic consultation to multi- disciplinary colleagues.
* Supervision of clinical staff and/or students. Experience of providing mental health services intervention within non-NHS settings such as Community or Local Authority settings.
* Highly developed skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Evidence of continuing professional development. Demonstrate ability to organise and prioritise clinical and professional commitments. Organisational ability and time management skills. Excellent oral and written communication skills including report writing. Ability to work within professional guidelines of registering body. Ability to demonstrate sound clinical knowledge and awareness of current evidence base relevant to the area of practice. Knowledge of safeguarding procedures for children and adults.
* Trained in a therapeutic approach(es). Skills in developing and co-ordinating training packages, consultation for other professionals and appropriate interventions. Ability to speak Welsh
* Welsh language speaking/listening skills at Level 3 or above
Values
* Enthusiastic, resilient, self-motivated, flexible and adaptable. Ability to manage anxiety of self and others. Able to work using own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas. Able to demonstrate good interpersonal skills. Able to communicate competently with clients, relatives and fellow staff. Able to work in situations where there is a risk of verbal and/or physical aggression.
Other
* Enhanced DBS Check Able to travel to across sites, and to visit clients at home across the area in a timely manner.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome applications from individuals within protected groups as outlined in the Equality Act 2010. This includes, but is not limited to, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity, and marriage and civil partnership. We also warmly welcome applications from members of the Armed Forces community.
Applicants who are not UK or Republic of Ireland nationals will require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa unless they already hold permission to work via another route. Prospective applicants should self-assess their eligibility for sponsorship by visiting the UK Government’s Work in the UK guidance. For eligible candidates, the Health and Care Visa offers reduced application costs and exempts payment of the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.
Please ensure you check your email regularly, as all recruitment correspondence will be sent to the email address provided on your application form.
Applications are welcome in either Welsh or English, with no preference given to the language used.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy early or withdraw an advertisement to accommodate the redeployment of internal staff into suitable roles.
All posts are subject to relevant checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service check and, where required, Professional Registration verification.
We are proud to be a Living Wage Employer.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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