Primary Healthcare Liaison Nurse – Learning Disabilities
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What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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Job overview
To provide a nurse liaison service within a large multi-disciplinary Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT) in North Tyneside. Helping to embed the physical health and wellbeing needs of all patients across all disciplines and teams within CLDT and, supporting community services to promote health and wellbeing and address health inequalities for people who have a learning disability.
The post-holder will work across GP practices and community services, maximising access to primary care services to increase positive health outcomes and decrease health inequalities taking into account reasonable adjustments.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Please ensure you have prior approval from your current line manager that a secondment agreement can be facilitated within your current department before applying
Main duties of the job
Increase access to primary care services in North Tyneside to improve patient outcomes and decrease health inequalities by implementing the recommendations of Valuing People Now and Healthcare for All in relation to reasonable adjustments.
Improve the quality of care received by individuals with a learning disability in the primary care settings in North Tyneside.
Provide advice regarding assessments of special needs such as mental capacity, mental health act assessment and deprivation of liberty assessments.
Manage the interface between primary care services, and the rest of the health economy in collaboration with acute liaison nurses and contribute to the plan for reducing the numbers of unplanned hospital admissions, hospital readmissions and identify areas for service development.
Develop effective and collaborative working with healthcare and multi-agency colleagues, including identifying and meeting their training needs and providing specialist nursing advice.
To increase the knowledge and skills of the wider CLDT service to ensure physical health and wellbeing is prioritised and embedded within all aspects of specialist work.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate.
High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- Supporting GPs to maintain Learning Disability Registers.
- Providing patient education on health and wellbeing issues.
- Reducing Health Inequalities:
- training to providers
- training to community staff
- consultation and advice to community and acute services
- Contributing to strategic meetings at a regional and local level.
- Working collaboratively to improve outcomes and uptake:
- Vaccinations
- Health screening
- Menopause
- Annual Health Checks
- Responding to LeDeR themes and reports.
- Acting as a senior nurse to the wider CLDT.
- Supervising clinical staff.
Further responsibilities can be found in the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential criteria- Current entry on NMC register – learning disabilities – RNLD
- Advanced Practice with specialist knowledge in the provision of care for people with learning disabilities (BSc Diploma or relevant portfolio to this level.
- Registered Mentor - Assessing and mentoring qualification
- Teaching Qualification
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria- Advanced Clinical Skills in the field of Learning Disabilities. Practice experience at a minimum of Band 6 or above. Extensive Community experience.
- Previous experience of research and audit.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.