Learning Disability Nurse (Development Role)

Are you a newly qualified Learning Disability Nurse, or an experienced nurse looking to develop your skills in a supportive and specialist environment?

We are offering an exciting Band 5 to Band 6 development opportunity at HMP Ashfield . You will join a multidisciplinary healthcare team providing high-quality, person-centred care to people with learning disabilities and complex health needs within a custodial setting.

You will initially be appointed at Band 5 and supported through a structured development plan designed to build the knowledge, skills and competencies required for a Band 6 role. You will receive supervision, learning opportunities and practical experience to help you develop your confidence, clinical decision-making and leadership skills.

Please note that progression to Band 6 is not automatic or guaranteed. Progression will depend on successfully completing the agreed development plan, demonstrating the required Band 6 competencies and being successful at interview for a Band 6 position. Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Working as part of the multidisciplinary team, you will assess, plan, deliver and evaluate care for people with learning disabilities, helping to reduce health inequalities and improve access to appropriate healthcare.

You will manage an allocated caseload with support and supervision appropriate to your level of experience. The role will include completing specialist and holistic assessments, developing care plans, supporting safe medicines management, assessing clinical risk and promoting physical, emotional and social wellbeing.

You will work closely with prison colleagues, healthcare professionals and external services to ensure care is coordinated, accessible and appropriately adjusted to meet individual needs. You will also contribute to health promotion, staff education, service development, clinical audit and quality improvement.

As you progress through the development pathway, you will be supported to take on greater clinical autonomy, contribute to leadership within the team and support the learning and development of students and junior colleagues.

This post is based across both HMP Ashfield and HMP Leyhill. You will be required to work 3 shifts per week at HMP Ashfield (7.30am-5.30pm) and 1 shift per week at HMP Leyhill (7.30am - 5pm). A full driving licence and the ability to travel between sites are essential.

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

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Shanna Pidoux Job title: Mental Health Clinical Lead Email address: [email protected]