Job overview

** PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY **
We have an exciting opportunity to recruit an appropriately experienced nurse (RNLD/RMN) to work with young people with Learning Disabilities in Transition to adult services within Greenwich.

This Community Nursing role will work within a multi-disciplinary team to provide high quality health and risk assessments and identify pathways through transition.
You should be enthusiastic and show an understanding of SEND, Education, health and care planning, wider community services/NHS systems for young people and adults, diagnostic criteria for learning disability as well as the complex physical and mental health 
needs of people with learning disabilities. 

We offer a range of training and development opportunities both within Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and externally. You will receive regular supervision and join our learning disability nursing council across three boroughs.

Main duties of the job

·       The post holder will work in the Greenwich CLDT within the Transition nursing team, focusing on the additional needs of young people moving through transition.

·       The post holder will be expected to manage a caseload of young people, working autonomously with a broad spectrum of physical and mental health issues. 

·       They will provide holistic, high calibre, evidence based assessments to inform transition planning.

·       The post holder will be expected to facilitate a variety of health education and health promotion training and group work, with clients and carers as needed.

·       The post holder will support students and junior staff as required and will undertake to provide a rich learning experience for them.

·       The post holder will work collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with other agencies/services such as social care and education.

·       The post holder, in conjunction with the MDT, will gather information and inform decision making regarding eligibility for specialist learning disability services.

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