Job overview

The Milton Keynes Community Team for Adults with Learning Disabilities (MK CTALD) is an integrated NHS and Local Authority service. We are looking for an experienced nurse to join our dynamic multidisciplinary team.

This is a rare opportunity to join our team of community nurses and contribute to the delivery of learning disability services in Milton Keynes.

Working to maintain and improve the health and wellbeing of our service users the post holder will work with them to address health inequalities, prevent hospital admissions, and facilitate hospital discharge.

The successful candidate will be a registered nurse with substantial post registration experience and a special interest in working with people with learning disabilities; they will evidence a positive approach and a commitment to personal and professional development.

The post holder will have the relevant qualifications and demonstrable experience in the delivery of community learning disability services.

Main duties of the job

Band 6 nurses contribute to the provision of safe and reliable services by:

·     Using their clinical judgement and risk assessments to keep the people using our services as safe as possible

·      Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalate concerns when necessary

• Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services

·       Being open and transparent about their own practice

• Supervising the work of others

·      Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made

• Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement 

·       Maintaining accurate, legible, comprehensive records

·       Maintaining compliance with their mandatory training requirements.

Working for our organisation

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 6 nurses to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends family and carers and also other staff members. 

 As a Band 6 nurse we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better.

We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.

We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.

We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.

As a band 6 nurse we expect you to role model these values and contribute to ensuring that they are embedded in the practice of the team.