Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Nurse to join its dedicated team, providing expert care and support to individuals with disabilities. This role is ideal for a Registered Nurse (RN) with experience working with people with disabilities and a passion for delivering high-quality, community-based healthcare.
Visa sponsorship is available for qualified international candidates, making this a great opportunity to advance your nursing career in the UK
About the Trust
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is a leading provider of mental health, learning disability, and neurodiversity care across Leeds and beyond. As the primary provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds, the Trust also delivers adult neurodiversity services in the area, alongside specialist services across West Yorkshire, Humber & North Yorkshire, and highly specialised services across the North of England.
LYPFT’s dedicated and compassionate staff bring expertise, innovation, and respect to a wide range of specialist services, ensuring people-centred care that empowers individuals to achieve their personal goals. From community support to crisis treatment, the Trust is committed to enhancing lives and promoting well-being.
With a mission to improve health and well-being, LYPFT strives to provide outstanding care, foster an excellent working environment, and build strong partnerships. By actively involving individuals in their care, the Trust ensures that every person it supports has the opportunity to lead a fulfilling and empowered life.
Position: Community Nurse
Salary: £37,338 -£44,962 per annum
Job Type: Part Time – 30 hours a week
Location: Leeds, UK
About the Role
The LYPFT Learning Disability service provides multi professional, specialist health services for people over the age of 18 with a learning disability across community settings, respite and the intensive support team. The service works in partnership with key stakeholders including service users and carers, adult social care, third sector and private providers to deliver health care for people with highly complex health needs that may include behaviours that challenge services, mental health and/or dual diagnosis and complex multiple impairment / physical health needs.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a nurse to join the East North East Community Learning Disability Team on permanent basis. We are looking for dynamic community nurses keen to work with learning disabled adults who require specialist health support due to vulnerabilities, complex physical health, sensory, communication and behavioural impairments.
The successful candidates will be based within the East North East CLDT. The service runs Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.
The band 6 community nurse will provide direct clinical care to adults with a learning disability with the aim to improve service users lives and prevent admissions to specialist mental health and general health hospitals by ensuring that the right plans are in place.
The post holder will provide clinical and operational supervision to junior colleagues within the team, developing intervention toolkits for nurses as well as holding a caseload including care co-ordination to ensure care teams or family carers are supported to implement care and treatment as recommended.
The Learning Disability service has clear clinical governance pathways and supports professional and service development. As a band 6 there is an expectation to contribute or lead on service development, service projects and task groups. Robust supervision structures are in place with 1:1s with support from the Specialist Nurse Practitioner, peer support through weekly MDT meetings and community nurse meetings.
The candidate should have a passion for improving the health and well-being of adults with a learning disability, using their experience of leading and delivering high quality care from relevant experience. For this role you will need to be a compassionate and person-centred clinician who can carry out comprehensive, person-centred holistic assessments to a high standard. You will need to be committed to coordinating across multi- disciplinary and multi- agency teams to promote and advocate the health needs of adults with learning disabilities. We would value a candidate who has experience of working in a diverse population and promoting social inclusion.
Working for our organisation
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 – 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Highlighting and leading upon service improvement initiatives.
- Providing support for junior staff and learners.
- Providing evidence-based care.
- Having experience of time management in terms of a caseload or project work.
- Timely delivery of the nursing process in terms of assessment, planning, intervention and review.
- Experience of undertaking various assessment such as biopsychosocial assessments and following clinical pathways.
- Experience of risk management.
- Being able to work in a hybrid and flexible way.
- Look to provide robust managerial and clinical supervision.
- Professional development through accessing opportunities as identified in appraisals.
- Developing training tools and providing training as required.
- Having an understanding of Safeguarding principles.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified and registered RNLD/RNMH
Experience (Essential criteria)
- Experience of working with people with a learning disability
- Experience of working with a multi-disciplinary or multi-agency team
Skills (Essential criteria)
- Must be driver with access to a vehicle.
- Evidence of professional development
Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position based on a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application. Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.
Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks.
The purpose of a temporary is role could be for maternity cover, temporary funding or some other reason. At the end of which the need for the temporary work will cease. Temporary roles can stop, be extended and/or made permanent at any point during the period of work. Should the role become permanent then the post-holder will be informed of the process to be followed to convert the position to a permanent one.
Benefits
Certificate of Sponsorship is available to candidates who meet the requirements.
Required Documents
- CV/Resume
- Cover Letter
Application Process
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Application Deadline
February 13, 2025 (23:59)