Community Nurse In The Intensive Support Team

To ensure effective communication and collaboration with others involved in a service users care. Liaise as necessary and attend CPA meetings, CTRs, risk meetings reviews and team meetings. To ensure the person referring and others involved in a service users care are informed and kept aware of involvement both verbally and in writing, with the service users consent. To ensure the maintenance of a high standard of care to Learning Disability with specialist health needs, supporting the implementation of the Care Programme Approach To manage time effectively a work with clinicians with the IST caseload. Seek managerial supervision with Clinical Team Manager (CTM) effectively and efficiently. To participate in managing and prioritising time effectively. To maintain links with primary care and advise on mental health issues and support as necessary To demonstrate sound clinical skills and ability to make decisions, whilst always aiming to promote the involvement of the service user. To embrace any health promotion initiatives and always encourage a positive attitude to learning disability difficulties. To maintain clear links with your professions structures and your professions lead within the Trust. Support the professions development and modernisation and the adherence to your professions standards and codes of practice. To gain consent and build a collaborative relationship with service users that will promote engagement in the therapeutic process, adapting to barriers in communication which service users may present with e.g. emotional, psychological, physical, and always ensuring they are involved in and aware of their current care plan. Highlighting and leading upon service improvement initiatives. Providing support for junior staff and learners. Providing evidence-based care, experience of risk management. Being able to work in a hybrid and flexible way. Professional development through accessing opportunities as identified in appraisals. Having an understanding of Safeguarding principles. The band 6 Community Nurse will provide direct clinical care to adults with a learning disability with the aim to improve service users lives and prevent admissions to specialist mental health and general health hospitals by ensuring that the right plans are in place. The post holder will provide clinical supervision to junior colleagues within the team, developing intervention toolkits for nurses as well as holding a caseload including care co-ordination to ensure care teams or family carers are supported to implement care and treatment as recommended. The Learning Disability service has clear clinical governance pathways and supports professional and service development. As a band 6 there is an expectation to contribute or lead on service development, service projects and task groups. Robust supervision structures are in place with 1:1s with support from the Specialist Nurse Practitioner, peer support through weekly MDT meetings and Community Nurse meetings. The successful candidate must have worked with people with a learning disability previously either in the community or in an inpatient setting, be keen to continue to work with people who have complex needs and have awareness of the needs of people who have a learning disability. The successful candidate will be based within the Intensive Support Team. The service currently runs 7 days a week.