Overview
The post holder will work in the Bexley CTLD Complex Physical Health (CPH) of Learning Disability nursing team, focusing on the additional needs of people with complex physical health needs. They will work within the Bexley Community Learning Disability nursing team based at Queen Mary's Hospital with a skilled and experienced nursing team, supporting the physical health needs of adults with learning disabilities and complex physical health needs within the borough. The post holder will work collaboratively with the MDT within the service, as well as key stakeholders within the borough.
Responsibilities
* Manage a caseload of adults, working autonomously with a broad spectrum of physical health issues.
* Provide holistic, high calibre, evidence-based nursing care, assessments, and interventions.
* Facilitate health education and health promotion training and group work with clients and carers as needed.
* Support students and junior staff and provide a rich learning experience for them; receive regular supervision from line management.
* Work collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with other agencies/services.
* Lead on providing robust health liaison to acute and primary care to ensure service users can access mainstream health services.
* Maintain awareness of diversity and multi-cultural communities; apply evidence-based nursing care to promote physical well-being using LD-specific and mainstream health targets.
* Utilise a range of specialist assessments to identify health needs for service users; develop skills in assessing, implementing, and critically evaluating intervention outcomes to maintain and improve physical well-being.
* Provide and delegate care delivery where appropriate to meet the health needs of people with learning disabilities.
* Advise and work collaboratively with colleagues, carers, professionals and other agencies around complex clinical interventions and outcomes.
* Assess and manage clinical risk for service users with complex physical health needs.
* Implement NHS health care policies and strategies into nursing practice, including targets outlined in Valuing People (DoH, 2001) and National Service frameworks; demonstrate understanding of NHS policies (e.g., NHS Long Term Plan) and work within the national policy agenda.
* Develop an understanding of local complex physical healthcare pathways and the clinical patient information and recording system (RIO).
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We\'re Kind; We\'re Fair; We\'re Listen; We\'re Care.
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