Job summary
- Main area
- Learning Disabilities
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 820-6436670-LD
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Greenfields
- Town
- Kings Norton, Birmingham
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 26/07/2024
Employer heading
Band 6 Community Nurse Frailty and Dementia
Band 6
Job overview
***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***
Community Nurse Frailty and Dementia– Learning Disabilities – Band 6
An exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced and highly motivated individual to join community city wide service within the Learning Disabilities Service.
Due to the nature of the role this is open to Registered Nurses Learning Disability who have experience in supporting service users with frailty and or dementia
The role involves providing specialist support and guidance to adults with learning disabilities who are frail and/or diagnosed with dementia and supporting their carers. The successful candidate will provide clinical services through the effective management of an active caseload.
You will be an experienced and flexible individual with excellent communication skills and a passion for multi disciplinary team working.
Main duties of the job
To work within the framework of a multi-disciplinary team to provide support and guidance to adults with learning disabilities and their carers.
To work within the framework of health facilitation (level one and two).
To co-ordinate a clinical service under the supervision of Senior Community Nurses.
To provide support to adults with learning disability who have dementia and/or frailty.
Working for our organisation
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
IMPORTANT
- Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process
- Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Duties
1. To manage and co-ordinate a caseload under the supervision of the Senior
Community Nurse.
2. To focus on individual health outcomes for people with learning disabilities and offer
support to access health services.
3. To promote service development and planning within mainstream services supporting
them to achieve Valuing People targets and examine initiatives to reduce health
inequalities.
4. To assess, plan, implement, evaluate and review programmes of care and ensure
measurable outcomes and discharges are efficiently and effectively carried out.
To have a working knowledge of the Mental Health Act, Valuing People and
Human Rights Act and a general awareness of other legislation that impacts on
the lives of people with a Learning Disability including older adults legislation.
5.
To assist individuals with learning disabilities and their carers, giving practical help and
advice on such matters as:
6.
• Dementia and Frailty
• Management of challenging behaviour
Management of Epilepsy
• Diet
• Promotion of Continence
Medication
• Respite Care Health
education
• Practical Problems e.g., lifting
Mental Health needs Physical
Disabilities
• Sensory Disabilities
Autism
• Relationship and sexuality
Parenting
• Care Programme Approach Co-Ordination
To act, here necessary, as an advocate for the person with a learning disability,
bearing in mind the rights, needs and dignity of the individual and development of
self esteem.
7.
8. To participate in meetings, case conferences and clinics, where appropriate.
To liaise with all professionals, statutory and voluntary agencies working with people
with learning disabilities e.g., Primary Health Care Teams, Social Care & Health,
Education Services and others as required.
9.
To liaise with all appropriate professionals, carers and Service User with regard to
pre and post admission support to respite care/assessment/treatment/
Acute/Hospitals.
10.
11. To refer clients to other agencies as appropriate.
12. To work within the principles of clinical governance.
To work flexibly in response to Service Users' individual needs, i.e., evenings,
weekends and public holidays.
13.
14. To promote the values and principles of the organisation in relation to diversity.
15. To be sensitive and proactive in meeting the needs of the service user from a variety
of ethnic cultures
16. To promote the values and principles of the person centred approachs
17. To participate on the On-Call Out of hours Duty on a rotational basis
Person specification
Qualifications/training
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse: Learning Disabilities or Mental Health
- Post qualification training
Desirable criteria
- ENB 998 or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration
- Working with Multi-disciplinary Teams
- Dealing with complex health needs
- Working with Multi-agencies
Desirable criteria
- Experience in managing frailty & dementia
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of assessment processes
- Understanding diversity
- Level 1 & 2 health facilitation
- Understand legislation in relation to people with learning disabilities
- Ability to undertake and understand audit tools
- Knowledge of Care Programme Approach
- Good IT skills
- Good communication skills both written and verbal
personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Confident
- Assertive
Other Job Requirements
Essential criteria
- Car driver essential with full licence and access to a vehicle
- Must be able to meet the travel requirements of the role
- On call participation
- Flexible working
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- John Siddles
- Job title
- Clinical Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07974 932345
- Additional information
or contact
Melanie Cleary, Frailty and Dementia Nurse 07704 321 064
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