Registered Nurse for Learning Disabilities - Heatherstones

Job Overview

To provide specialist nursing care and support to individuals with learning disabilities, promoting physical and mental health, independence, and inclusion in the community.

To support the manager in ensuring that services and practices in your home(s) are delivered and developed effectively and efficiently and within the current values and beliefs, policies and procedures of St. Anne’s Community Services.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting the manager in ensuring that all staff employed within your service are recruited, developed, supported and managed in an appropriate and professional manner.
• Responsible, with your manager, for addressing the training and development needs of staff and ensuring that they are reviewed against St. Anne’s service objectives.
• Responsible, with your manager, for addressing your own personal development and training needs through PREP and a professional portfolio, based on service objectives.
• Responsible for supporting the manager in maintaining the quality of the service provided within your defined area.
• Responsible for supporting your manager in ensuring that you and staff within your service comply with St. Anne’s values and beliefs, policies and procedures. In addition that any legal or contractual obligations are fully met.
• Responsible for supporting your manager in ensuring that your service(s) have access to, and uses, the best current thinking and practice in the delivery of those services.
• Responsibility for contributing to the successful future development of
  
  

Working for our organisation

St. Anne's wants to reward its employees for their hard work. Employee benefits include;

• Rising 20 to 25 days plus statutory bank holidays
• 24 Hour Employee Assistance Programme
• Continuous opportunities for ongoing training and career development
• Cycle To Work scheme
• Refer A Friend recruitment initiative
• Flexible working opportunities (where applicable) upon successful completion of probation period
• Group Personal Pension Scheme
• Discounted income protection scheme
• Free car parking at most services
• Free life assurance cover
  
  

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting the manager in ensuring that all staff employed within your service are recruited, developed, supported and managed in an appropriate and professional manner.
• Responsible, with your manager, for addressing the training and development needs of staff and ensuring that they are reviewed against St. Anne’s service objectives.
• Responsible, with your manager, for addressing your own personal development and training needs through PREP and a professional portfolio, based on service objectives.
• Responsible for supporting the manager in maintaining the quality of the service provided within your defined area.
• Responsible for supporting your manager in ensuring that you and staff within your service comply with St. Anne’s values and beliefs, policies and procedures. In addition that any legal or contractual obligations are fully met.
• Responsible for supporting your manager in ensuring that your service(s) have access to, and uses, the best current thinking and practice in the delivery of those services.
• Responsibility for contributing to the successful future development of St. Anne’s by highlighting opportunities within the broad corporate aims of the organisation. This will include contributions to policy and procedures and to service development.
• To monitor clinical practice and standards of care, and the implementation of policies/practice guidelines and legislation appropriate to the service and to take corrective measures when required to do so.
• To work in conjunction with the Project Manager and other staff, to take responsibility for the risk assessment, prioritisation and planning of admissions, to and discharges from, the service.
• Responsibility for supporting the manager in establishing and maintaining effective links within your team(s), with other organisations and agencies, or workers whose role(s) may impact upon your service area.
• Responsibility for deputising for the manager in their absence.
• Responsibility for any specific roles and duties within the home as agreed with the manager.
• Responsibility for communicating effectively within your workplace, within your team, and within the organisation.
• Responsible for ensuring that as an individual, and as part of a team, that resources are used appropriately and that all necessary steps are taken to avoid fuel energy wastes.
• Responsible for maximising the opportunities for client participation.
• Assessing student nurses where appropriate and supporting support assistants with learning and development needs as required by the service.
• To work independently in assessing and planning to meet the physical, psychological and social needs of clients presenting in crisis, and during programmes of detoxification and rehabilitation.
• To plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care, in consultation with clients, to meet assessed and agreed needs, utilising a primary nursing system and ensuring full liaison with other disciplines directly involved with care provision.
• To ensure the approach to care provision is given with full understanding and compliance and legislation appropriate to the service.
• To work with clients in preparation for discharge ensuring full exploration of options for ongoing support and treatment, and to liaise as appropriate with other agencies and service providers.
• To initiate and maintain continuous therapeutic relationships with clients by utilising relevant nursing practices and constantly monitoring such interventions.
• Be able to work flexibly to meet the changing needs of the service, including out-of-hours/unsocial shift patterns.
  
  

St. Anne’s is working to actively promote equality, diversity and inclusion.

We want people from underrepresented groups such as disabled, black and ethnic minority, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, and non-binary (LGBTQ+) communities to apply for all our roles.

St. Anne's is a Disability Confident employer. We are actively working to recruit and retain people with disabilities and long-term health conditions into our work force. If you are an applicant who has a disability, you will be offered an interview if you meet the essential criteria for the job. Please contact recruitment on 0113 243 5151 opt 3 if you require any reasonable adjustments.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Nurse (PDF, 200.4KB)
  
  

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name Nobuhle Mallinson Job title Registered Nursing Manager Email address [email protected] Telephone number 01422 369724