Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift Patterns are 08:00 - 16:00hrs or 12:00 - 20:00hr over 7 day rota 09:00hrs to 17:00hrs weekends and bank holidays)
- Job ref
- 367-LD&F-10175
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tekhnicon House, Springwood Drive, Braintree, CM2 7YN
- Town
- Braintree
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Nurse Practitioner - Learning Disability
Band 6
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Job overview
The post holder will work in close collaboration with other professionals, including the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team (Nursing, Psychiatry, Psychology, Allied Health Professionals and Arts Therapies) in assessing service user’s needs, devising care plans and evaluating outcomes that promote service user empowerment through the process. The post holder, with the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team will provide high quality, individualised care, which addresses the needs of the service users and meets individual health needs.
Main duties of the job
Actively support people with a learning disability in a variety of settings to improve their physical, mental and emotional health. This is delivered through person-centred assessment and treatment, which will subsequently be evaluated for achievement of identified goals.
Improve the lives of people with a learning disability by minimising the impact of their condition through the delivery of excellent services to promote recovery and well-being.
Professionally accountable and responsible for patient care, undertaking a range of clinical/therapeutic interventions in hospital or patients’ homes and other community settings.
Act as lead professional or care co-ordinator as appropriate.
Facilitate others in the team to develop competence by providing leadership, day to day supervision, clinical advice and clinical supervision to associate practitioners, healthcare assistants and students as appropriate.
Advocate for and promote a positive image of people with a learning disability.
Provide advice on reasonable adjustments to primary and secondary healthcare services.
Promote the inclusion of people with learning disabilities into mainstream services, through health facilitation, education and training of key personnel.
Ensure statutory requirements of the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act are observed and applied.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Work collaboratively with service users, carers and families to deliver nursing assessment and then plan, implement and evaluate identified interventions, with a view to improving physical, mental and emotional well-being.
Carry out clinical nursing procedures/techniques where required, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
Implement and promote evidence-based clinical processes and standards of practice across the service area.
Promote and assist the completion of health action plans.
Facilitate individual therapeutic sessions to achieve identified health outcomes for service users in accordance with assessed needs.
Develop and review a range of comprehensive and evidence-based clinical risk assessments and associated care plans. Ensure these plans have meaningful service user, carer and interdisciplinary involvement throughout the process.
Provide written reports as necessary for service user reviews.
Ensure the administration and safe custody of drugs and medications in accordance with Trust policy and procedure, as well as NMC guidelines.
Lead specific groups/sessions with clear objectives where identified.
Comply with and promote the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Conduct
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RNLD or RMN
- Additional areas of training through short courses
- ENB 998/Mentorship
- Membership of professional bodies NMC Teacher/ training experience.
Desirable criteria
- Completion of Management Training
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Recognises and reflects on barriers to effective communication, modifying communication in response
- De-escalation in managing verbal aggression of agitated service users
- Keeps accurate and complete records and communication is consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
- Demonstrate good verbal presentation skills
- Ability to chair meetings effectively
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Leadership and motivational skills
- Organisational skills and the ability to work effectively within a management structure
- Communication skills – written, verbal and nonverbal
- IT skills, in particular MS word
- Provision of effective clinical supervision
- Experience of assessing and managing clinical risk
- Experience in care planning
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laurence Hallam
- Job title
- Nurse Team Leader - MW Essex LD Community Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0333 222 5020
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
The Colonnades
Hatfield
AL10 8YE
- Telephone
- 07484 987720
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