Band 6, CAMHS Community Learning Disability Nurse, Bristol

Job overview

Do you have a passion for supporting young people with learning disabilities to maximise their full potential?

Are you interested in a role where you can focus on your own development?

Perhaps you love to work in a community-based role within a CAMHS Service

We are seeking a Band 6 Learning Disability Nurse to Join the CAMHS Learning Disability Service in the Bristol Team

As a Community Learning Disability Nurse in our team, you will be a key member of our MDT, working in close partnership with Children's Services, Child Health and Education colleagues to support young people with learning disabilities, who may also have complex physical and mental health needs including behaviours that challenge.

Our community CAMHS LD Service works across Bristol & South Gloucestershire to provide specialist community support for young people with a learning disability, their families and carers.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be providing high-quality assessment, support and advice to young people with learning disabilities, their families and networks.

You will be managing your own case load, working across the team to support young people in the most efficient and effective way possible. An ability to be able to travel around service area and sometimes further across city is essential, as you will need to complete home visits, attend meetings and training.

You will have support from the team's Senior Learning Disability Nurse, the multi-disciplinary team and our wider CAMHS Learning Disability Service . Peer support and CPD are at the forefront of how we operate, with your development goals being highly valued and supported.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To work as a Community Learning Disability Nurse in the Community Adolescence Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Learning Disability Team for Children with Learning Disability.

To ensure a clinically effective, high quality nursing service provided to children and young people with learning disabilities and their families/carers.

The post holder will be a role model for the support workers and will be responsible for their supervision. The post holder must be clinically competent to hold an active caseload, and provide support, advice, healthcare and health promotion as well as initial and on-going holistic health assessment to children and young people with learning disabilities and their families/carers, whilst working as part of, and promoting joint working with the multi professional within CAMHS Learning Disability Service.

The post holder will help to improve early identification of challenging behaviour and mental health issues in children and young people with moderate to profound learning disabilities

The post holder will help with improving the quality of support to children and young people with moderate to profound learning disabilities who are based within specialist educational settings.

To work closely with the Senior CAMHS Learning Disability Nurse and Team Manager to review, audit and help implement strategic changes to CAMHS Learning Disability Service to achieve CCHP Core Values and Targets in line with government initiatives

For further details around the role responsibilities and personal requirements, please see job description and person specification.

Person specification

Essential

• Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse Educated to Diploma/Degree Level
• Recognised skills and knowledge in specialist area
• Significant experience of working in community with learning disabilities
• Significant practical knowledge, skills and experience and training in safeguarding procedures
• Understanding of National and Local policy relating to children with learning disabilities in the community setting
• To have experience of clinical governance issues – e.g. Clinical risk, audit, research
• Team Player
• Ability to present confidently in a range of multi-agency settings
• Ability to design protocols and training packages
• Ability to present confidently in a range of multi-agency settings
• Excellent skills in multi-disciplinary assessment with complex difficulties
• Ability to provide service and consultation in a professional manner to patients, families and professionals
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems and ability to cope with behaviour which may be challenging at times.

• Recognised skills and knowledge in specialist area
• Teaching & Assessment Qualification
• Experience of working with children with learning disabilities
• Experience of supervising and managing people
• Skills with PBS Positive Behaviour Support

This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.

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