Job overview

Are you looking for a fulfilling and varied role? Do you want to develop your career in community learning disability nursing?

A rare and exciting opportunity for a Senior Community Nurse has arisen within our Suffolk Community CAMHS team for Children with learning disabilities.

As a team we continually strive to develop the services we offer, to ensure they’re high quality and evidence based. To support our aims, we are seeking enthusiastic and highly motivated nurse to join our dynamic multi- disciplinary service. You’ll be joining an innovative Multi disciplinary team working collaboratively with multiple agencies and professional clinicians.

Our service covers the geographical area of East and West Suffolk and you’ll be responsible for managing a caseload from our base in Ipswich.

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidate should possess excellent and varied communication skills, enjoy working as part of a team, and working closely with colleagues from a range of disciplines. You will be able to work independently, carry out comprehensive assessments and plan, implement and evaluate delivery of nursing interventions as part of the holistic approach.

You will also be able to demonstrate that you are able to apply your nursing skills to a wide range of situations, in working with children with a learning disability and families living in the community across Suffolk. 

We have a culture of continued learning, working as a close LD mental health specialist pathway.  The team hold monthly protected days which includes a variety of training, reflection, supervision and service development.

We place an emphasis on the importance of clinical supervision and continued professional development; we offer a variety of opportunities in a supportive, friendly and stimulating working environment. We’ll support and encourage you to develop specialist experience and expertise as appropriate – whether you wish to be part of QI projects or be part of a leadership group planning and implementing the driving change for Transforming Care and Quality Standards for Learning Disability. Here is your opportunity!

Working for our organisation

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff. There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills. CPD is determined through appraisal with a personal development plan agreed between an individual and their manager, with the commitment of the necessary time and resources.