Job overview

Are you looking for a fulfilling and varied role? Do you want to develop your career working with people with Learning Disabilities or Autism?

An exciting opportunity for a Senior Learning Disability or Mental Health Nurse  or Allied Health Professional has arisen within our Intensive Support Team for children and adults with learning disabilities and/or  autism.

As a team we continually strive to develop the services we offer, to ensure they’re high quality and evidence based. To support our aims, we are seeking enthusiastic and highly motivated experienced clinician to join our dynamic multi- disciplinary service. You’ll be joining an innovative and vibrant multi-disciplinary team , working collaboratively with multiple agencies and professional clinicians.  We are looking for an experienced Band 6 Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse.  Applications would be welcomed from allied health professionals including social workers and occupational therapists  with relevant experience.

As an all age service we would like to hear from people with experience in working with adults or children who have a learning disability and/or autism.  Our remit is to try to improve the lives of service users by understanding the function of behaviours that challenge and risk placement, education or care breakdown or risk hospital admission.   

Our service covers the geographical area of East and West Suffolk and you’ll be responsible for managing a workload from a base in Ipswich.  

Main duties of the job

If you’re able to think and work creatively with individuals and their carers – we want to hear from you!

Caseload is team held and supported by the wider disciplines including behavioural nurse specialist, occupational therapy, psychology and speech and language therapy. You will be able to work independently, carry out comprehensive holistic assessments and participate in multi-disciplinary case discussions that lead to delivering interventions. We use support a Positive Behaviour Support approach and use Applied Behavioural Analysis.    We are looking for a confident practitioner, experienced in working with people with either learning disabilities or autism.  

You will also be able to demonstrate that you are able to apply your skills to a wide range of situations, as you’ll be working with a range of service users and their families or paid carers living within the community.

We have a culture of continued learning, working as a close LD specialist pathway with each team having monthly protected days which includes a variety of training, reflection, supervision and service development.

We’ll support and encourage you to develop specialist experience and expertise as appropriate – whether you wish to be part of QI projects or be part of a leadership group planning and implementing the driving change for Transforming Care and Quality Standards for Learning Disability. Here is your opportunity!

Working for our organisation

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more.

NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff. There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills. CPD is determined through appraisal with a personal development plan agreed between an individual and their manager, with the commitment of the necessary time and resources.