Job overview

In line with Building Fairer Oxleas Services, the Lead Nurse (Health Equity) position has been created to support Adult Learning Disability (ALD) services to effectively understand and mitigate the risks to life expectancy for people with a learning disability from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities. The post holder will examine available evidence reflecting the pattern of ill-health (morbidity and mortality rates) in this population and work with colleagues to develop sustainable methods of training, assessment, intervention and evaluation to address disparities in physical health outcomes for people with learning disabilities from BAME communities across Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley.

Main duties of the job

 1.         Fully understand the available evidence base (LeDeR reports, Datix incident reporting, Rio clinical record reports) reflecting the demographics and needs (admissions, deaths, comorbidities etc) of the local BAME population with learning disabilities.

2.           Engage with all ALD nursing teams and other clinical leads, examining existing training, assessment, intervention and evaluation methods, recommending any adjustments as necessary.

3.           Ensure resources for training, assessment, intervention, and evaluation effectively reflect and address the needs of local people with learning disabilities from BAME communities.

4.             Ensure nursing clinics in Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich effectively address the needs of people with learning disabilities from BAME communities, regarding nursing observations, adjusted measures, risk assessment and clinical documentation. Additionally, share findings/recommendations with wider ALD clinicians.

5.             Recommend sustainable means of reporting and performance monitoring to effectively reflect the health outcomes of people with learning disabilities from local BAME communities. 

6.           Engage with key partner agencies (Primary Care/Acute Hospital Care/Public Health/Social Care etc), to ensure the needs of the BAME community with learning disabilities are recognised across the local system.

For full job requirements see supporting documentation. 

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