Job overview

We are seeking an experienced, motivated, and compassionate Senior Learning Disability Nurse Lead to join our Community Team.

The post holder will lead the nursing workforce within the locality as part of the wider multidisciplinary team, championing best practice and fostering collaborative working with service users, families, carers, and partner agencies. A strong commitment to promoting health equity, independence, and wellbeing is essential.

 Alongside leadership experience, the post holder will bring extensive knowledge and skills in supporting people with a learning disability and additional complex health needs.

Adaptability, excellent communication, and the confidence to make autonomous clinical decisions are key attributes for this role. You will also be expected to demonstrate evidence based, innovative practice that contributes to continuous service improvement.

Main duties of the job

•    Exercise clinical expertise, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in the delivery of learning disability nursing services. Provide clinical skills in relation to assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of the service user group. Promote recovery based care programmes and set high standards for the delivery of care to people and their families and be responsible for delivering high quality Learning Disability services to all ages.
•    The post holder will be expected to hold their own caseload and provide specialist clinical interventions to the more complex clients within the service, whilst liaising with their multi-disciplinary colleagues.
•    Work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.
•    Contribute to the medical prescribing provision within the team through supportive dedicated non-medical prescribing.
•    Work collaboratively as part of the multidisciplinary team developing shared goals, complementing the roles of others to support and maintain team growth and continuous improvement across both community and in client services.
•    To promote and support good access to mainstream health care for those with learning disability, autism or both, the reduction of health inequalities and premature mortality, and the delivery of specialist health care interventions for this group of people.

Working for our organisation

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well