Are you a Nurse Practitioner with a passion for delivering outstanding care that brings the 6 Cs (care, compassion, commitment, courage, communication and competence) to life? Whether you are already an experienced registered learning disability nurse and are looking for a change, or a newly qualified nurse looking for an exciting opportunity to complete your preceptorship then we would like to hear from you.
We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join the Learning Disability Services for Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust - you will be based with the Halton Community Learning Disability Team at the Bridges Learning Centre in Widnes.
As part of your role you will be supporting individuals with a diagnosis of learning disability with mental and or physical health issues, supporting them in many aspects of their life and potentially a number of different venues across the community.
In return you will join a supportive and enthusiastic team and receive regular supervision, training to develop skills across a number of pathways.
The post-holder will be responsible for the assessment of health care needs and the development and evaluation of Care Plans for individuals referred to the Service.
The post-holder will have responsibility for prioritising and managing a supervised caseload delegated by the Team Manager and be responsible and accountable both professionally and legally for all aspects of
clinical and non-clinical activity in the service area, ensuring a high standard of clinical care is delivered to the people with learning disabilities under their management.
The post-holder will be required to work in diverse environments away from the main area and not directly supervised but will be under the guidance of a Senior Nurse.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jane Birchall-Smith Job title: Operational Manager/Principal OT Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 0151 351 8899
Jane Boyer
Clinical Lead/Health Facilitator
[email protected]0151 351 8899
