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Community Learning Disability Nurse - Transition | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 06 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,939 - £50,697 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 March 2025 |
| Location: | Woolwich, SE18 6HQ |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6986941/277-6986941-ALD |
Summary
Community Nurse - Learning Disabilities (Transition)
We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a learning disability nurse to work as a Community Nurse in Transition within Greenwich. You will be part of a small team of motivated nurses supporting young people to transition between child and adult services.
This Community Nurse role will provide high quality assessment to young adults with learning disabilities to improve outcomes through transition. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team. You should be enthusiastic and show an understanding of the complex needs of people with learning disabilities.
We offer a range of training and development opportunities both within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and externally. You will receive regular supervision and join our learning disability nursing council across three boroughs.
· The post holder will work in the Greenwich CLDT within the Transition nursing team, focusing on the additional needs of young people moving through transition.
· The post holder will be expected to manage a caseload of young people, working autonomously with a broad spectrum of physical and mental health issues.
· They will provide holistic, high calibre, evidence based assessments to inform transition planning.
· The post holder will be expected to facilitate a variety of health education and health promotion training and group work, with clients and carers as needed.
· The post holder will support students and junior staff as required and will undertake to provide a rich learning experience for them.
· The post holder will work collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with other agencies/services such as social care and education.
· The post holder, in conjunction with the MDT, will gather information and inform decision making regarding eligibility for specialist learning disability services.
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 Listen
• We Care
To apply national strategies, frameworks and plans to identify to meet the needs of service users in relation to their Physical Health and Wellbeing.
To identify and provide appropriate support to the social well-being of individual service users.
Work alongside the MDT and wider services to address issues to service users accessing services relevant to their individual health and wellbeing needs, as well as their social needs.
Provide health promotion relevant to the individual needs of the service user, and provide support to their support network to more widely promote and improve their health.
Liaise with mainstream services, and advocate the individual needs of the service users to promote their access to these services where required.
Develop own professional skills and knowledge by engaging in continued professional development that are both mandatory and relevant to the role.
To work in line with the NMC Code of Conduct at all times.
This advert closes on Thursday 20 Feb 2025
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