Senior Learning Disability Nurse
| Posting date: | 26 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 July 2025 |
| Location: | Ipswich, IP3 8LY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9246-25-0783 |
Summary
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work directly with service users in their homes, hospital or educational provisions. The area of coverage is across Suffolk. You will have an opportunity to establish relationships with carers, service users and other involved professionals, as well as undertaking longer term assessments around functions of behaviour and participating in formulation and analysis. The overarching aim is to try to understand the function of behaviour that presents challenge to others. Often these behaviours risk care or education breakdown and impact negatively on service users' quality of life. We aim to implement strategies and recommend approaches that either avoid or lessen the impact or help service users put in place different ways of getting their identified need met. Improving the quality of life for people with learning disabilities or autism is at the heart of what we do. There will be some supervisory responsibilities for Clinical Support Workers or Assistant Practitioners within the team. IST is a welcoming and vibrant multi-disciplinary team who work on a shared team caseload basis. Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!