Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Community Learning Disability Nurse
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Job Opportunity for a Band 5 Nurse in North Tyneside
About the Role
This is an exciting developmental opportunity under Annex 20 for a band 5 nurse to work towards band 6 competencies.
Who Can Apply
- Experienced band 5 or current band 6 nurses are welcome to apply for either post with prior relevant experience.
- Learning Disability student nurses who are due to qualify this year are welcome to apply for this post.
Why Join Us
Join our friendly Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. Our team is a large well-established and supportive multi-disciplinary team offering holistic health care to children and adults who have a learning disability living in North Tyneside.
About the Role
The Ideal candidate will have an understanding of National and Local Policies relating to the management of people with learning disabilities.
What You'll Do
One post will be based in our PBS team carrying out behavioural assessments and interventions for children and adults who present with behaviours that challenge.
The second post will be based in our children's team, the post-holder will carry out ADHD diagnostic assessments for children who have a learning disability.
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As an integral part of North Tyneside Community Learning Disability Team, the post holder will be solely responsible for a personal caseload including assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluation of care.
They will be passionate about working in collaboration with service users, their family, carers, and professional colleagues in order to enhance health and wellbeing, to prevent or reduce behaviour that challenges.
About Us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck, and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
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Development
This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.
Application Information
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Further Information
For Further Information On Annex 20, Please See
http://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/annex-16-to-20/annex-20-development-of-professional-roles
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Katie Coxon
- Job title: Clinical Pathway Lead
- Email address: kathryn.coxon@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0191 295 2764
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