Job summary
- Main area
- Registered Mental Health Nurse/ Learning Disability Nurse or Allied Health Professional
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: n/a
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (n/a)
- Job ref
- 363-TH5955952
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Beaumont House, Mile End Hospital
- Town
- Mile End
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum Inc HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 7
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
The East London Intensive Support Team provides a 7 day a week urgent and intensive community response for people with Learning Disabilities with additional complex mental health needs and/or behaviours that services perceive to be challenging, that result in the person posing a risk to themselves or others. The service operates across the inner east London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and City and Hackney.
As a senior clinician within the team your primary responsibility will be to deliver intensive community-based support, aiming to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitate the individual's well-being and recovery within their familiar environment. The role will also include providing in-reach support inpatient environments.
You will take a lead role in supporting adults with Learning Disabilities in the community who are experiencing a crisis in their mental health or behaviour. You will be experienced in working with adults with Learning Disabilities and co-occurring mental health difficulties. You will also provide consultation and advice to colleagues supporting Autistic adults without a Learning Disability who are experiencing acute mental health needs.
You will work as a part of a multidisciplinary team, building relationships within the Intensive Support Team as well as with the Community Learning Disability and Inpatient services across east London.
Main duties of the job
- Maintain clinical direction and leadership; helping to coordinate a team of clinical staff for the continuous and consistent provision of high quality health care to people in mental health or behavioural crisis in the community
- Act as a role model in the practice area, encouraging staff in teaching, supervision, facilitating and assessing, create and sustain a supportive/teaching/learning environment for the practice setting
- Participate in developing policy and improve quality standards across the service
- Take responsibility for the smooth running of the service on a day to day basis, as delegated
- Take responsibility for leading on the review and collation of data for the service ensuring it meets performance targets and escalate concerns or variations to this as delegated
- Undertake advanced clinical reasoning in assessment and intervention for people with Learning Disabilities, working to avoid placement breakdown or admissions under the Mental Health Act (1983)
- Work collaboratively with service users, carers, Community Learning Disability Services, inpatient services, local authorities and other primary and secondary care services within East London
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile
Person specification
Education/ Training/ Qulification
Essential criteria
- • Registered Mental Health Nurse/ Learning Disability Nurse or Allied Health Professional or Social Worker with suitable clinical experience at Band 6 In Learning Disability Services
- • Registration with relevant clinical body
- • Evidence of continual professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Well developed experience in working with adults with Learning Disabilities with behaviours perceived as challenging and/or co-occurring mental health difficulties during a period of a crisis
- • Proven leadership skills and experience
- • Demonstrable experience in providing management and clinical supervision
- • Experience in undertaking audit/review
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- • Highly developed and demonstrable clinical assessment skills
- • Knowledge of current legislation/policies relating to working within Learning Disability and Mental Health Services
- • Knowledge of the needs and rights of service users and carers
- • Evidence of excellent organisational skills as required to ensure the smooth and safe running of the East London Intensive Support Team
- • Excellent demonstrative interpersonal and communication skills
Other
Essential criteria
- • Computer literacy
- • Ability to travel between sites and across boroughs
- • Willingness to work flexibily to meet the needs of the service, which will include travelling and supporting service users in their own homes, inpatient wards or other varied settings
- • Experience working with service users from different cultural backgrounds
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Annabelle Lambourn
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager- Intensive Support Team
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02077715500
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