The closing date is 21 May 2025
Salary: £29,970 to £36,483 a year
Job summary
Are you dynamic, motivated and have a passion for working with children who have a learning disability and who strives for person centred care? Come and join our team delivering an excellent level of care in a rewarding environment to children with learning disabilities.
We provide replacement care and short stays for children from the age of 2 to 18 years across 2 bungalows, with up to 7 children staying at any one time. You will be working as part of a wider team supporting children to live their best lives in a safe, fun, and fulfilling environment.
We provide care to service users who have complex health needs or a need for nursing interventions (such as PEGs, Diabetes and Epilepsy). We also support service users who have behaviours that may be challenging.
We are a 7-day service, and you will be working a range of shifts including evenings, weekends, nights, and bank holidays. We can be flexible to make sure this works for you. This is a full time post.
We can offer you a range of benefits, training, and progression opportunities within the service to enhance your knowledge and skills and support you with your career pathway.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will predominantly be based in the Childrens service but will also be required to at times work in the Adults service and at times may be the sole nurse on site for both services. They would support the manager to lead the team in delivering a clinically effective service with the overarching aim that the individuals who attend the service feel, welcome, safe, confident and a positive experience for all concerned. keen to stay, thus providing a positive experience for all concerned.
Both services are registered with CQC, and the childrens service is registered with Ofsted. The post holder will be required to support the manager to ensure the service meets the requirements for CQC.
Knowledge
Essential
- Variety of evidence based clinical skills
- Understanding of evidence based nursing, multidisciplinary working, clinical governance
- Confidence to teach student nurses, patients, carers and members of the multidisciplinary team
- Current knowledge of developments in nursing and healthcare practice
- Awareness of Audit
Desirable
- Understanding of learning disability, physical disability and associated healthcare needs
- Experience of Audit
Experience
Essential
- Relevant learning disability experience
Desirable
- Post-registration experience
- Previous experience of day to day management
- Supervision and appraisal
- Supervising junior members of staff
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Learning Disability Nurse, Registered Nurse Mental Health or Registered General Nurse
- Current registration with the NMC
- I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer
Desirable
- Accredited courses in relevant clinical area
- Mentor Award
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to challenge poor behaviour
- Role modelling good behaviour
- A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
- Ability to praise and be supportive to others
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in
- English in both verbal and written formats
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Reflective practitioner
- Flexible, lateral thinker
- Compassion and empathy skills
- Self-motivated and proven ability to motivate others
- Able to work competently without supervision
- Team player
- Able to cope under pressure
- Versatile and adaptable
- Basic IT skills
Desirable
- An ability to manage a variety of situations
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Responsible for own professional development
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).