Senior Learning Disability Nurse
| Posting date: | 28 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 September 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE28 0FJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | E0314-25-3920 |
Summary
As Learning Disability Nurse you will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with other services, agencies and organisations. You will be required to developing specialist clinical skills in working with an offender population with a diversity of presenting problems, including psychosis and personality disorder, that feature alongside their learning disability and/or autism spectrum disorder. You will be responsible for making a clinical judgment with regard to their immediate needs and long term treatment, administer medication as prescribed by the doctor within the guidelines for medicines administration. You will; Provide a holistic package of care to patients within the prison system and manage the assessment of health needs, planning, delivery and evaluation of care, for the prison population, including clinical risk assessment. Deliver non-judgemental care that makes a real difference, as defined throughout our bespoke Health in Justice Competency framework. Inspire excellence by forging strong links with our partners and stakeholders and providing a service that people can trust, feel safe within, and feel proud of. Promote the delivery of high quality, individualised, evidence-based, patient centred nursing care and ensure that Safer Cell procedures are followed and monitor patients on constant supervision where they are considered particularly at risk from suicide or self harm, recording observations. Share knowledge, skills and expertise to ensure safe care by working with strong multi-disciplinary teams and supporting each other to do a great job.