Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a learning disability nurse to work as a Community Nurse in Complex Physical Health within Bromley. You will be part of a small team of motivated nurses supporting people with their physical health.

This is a full-time post based at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup. We will consider those applicants who would like flexible working hours and potential job share.

As Learning Disability nurses, we are fully committed to addressing the health inequalities faced by adults with a learning disability, and are passionate about overcoming these barriers. We would welcome applications from Learning Disability nurses who share this passion and want to make a difference to the lives of adults with a learning disability. We work as a multi-disciplinary service and alongside other stakeholders to improve health, and reduce the risk of hospital admission and premature death for our service users.

We offer a range of training and development opportunities both within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and externally. You will receive regular supervision and join our learning disability nursing council across three boroughs.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will work in the Bromley CLDT Complex Physical Health in Learning Disability nursing team, focusing on the additional needs of people with complex physical health needs.
• The post holder will be expected to manage a caseload of adults, working autonomously with a broad spectrum of physical health issues. 
• They will provide holistic, high calibre, evidence based, skilled nursing care, assessments, and interventions.
• The post holder will be expected to facilitate a variety of health education and health promotion training and group work, with clients and carers as needed.
• The post holder will support students and junior staff as required and will undertake to provide a rich learning experience for them.
• The post holder will work collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with other agencies/services.
• The post holder will lead on providing robust health liaison to acute and primary care to ensure our service users are able to access mainstream health services.
• The post holder will have a good awareness of the issues surrounding diversity and multi-cultural communities.
• The post holder should demonstrate a broad knowledge of the  requirements of the NMC, the Trust and government policies and legislation and their application to practice.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care