Job overview

Are you passionate about improving the health, wellbeing and outcomes of adults with learning disabilities?

Are you:

Dynamic, forward-thinking and looking for your next challenge?

An experienced leader?

A skilled communicator and an effective problem solver?

Passionate about providing excellent care?

We are looking for an experienced registered Learning Disability Nurse with the above passion and skill set to be a registered nurse manager within learning disability short breaks service.  Come and join us and experience the difference that we can make together.

The role will involve leading and contributing to the effective provision of services to people with a learning disability and additional needs e.g. autism.

Using your broad range of communication skills and an evidence-based approach to care, you will work directly with individuals that use the service, their families and the people who support them in the assessment and planning processes including supporting people with complex and changing health care needs.

Together with the Community Matron you will develop the nursing service within the designated Community Learning Disability Service to manage the waiting list and referrals through allocation of work, supervision and support.

You will provide professional support to the respective Health Manager of the designated Community Adult Learning Disability Service.

Main duties of the job

To operationally manage the service providing short breaks and some outreach support to learning disabled people who present complex and challenging behaviour and Autism.  The post holder will manage and supervise staff and ensure agreed assessments and programs of care are implemented following a positive behavior support model (PBS).

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

 Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

 We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

 We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

 At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.