Learning Disabilities Health Facilitation Nurse

at  Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

Following an internal promotion, we have a full time Band 6 nursing vacancy in our learning disabilities health facilitation team and so are recruiting ! If you are an enthusiastic and motivated learning disabilities nurse, keen to work as part of a much wider MDT, we would love to hear from you. We work with adults (& young people with learning disabilities in transition) to access the appropriate health input they need - this might be to assist with their physical health and access to primary or secondary care, to support with their emotional wellbeing or to help people with their mental health.
There is huge variety in the workload - the team work with young people in transition, those who need more intensive support and general health facilitation - you will be working with people, their families and carers in a number of different settings including their own homes, family homes, residential and supported accommodation provision or hospitals. You will often be liaising closely with other health colleagues, social care staff, education, providers etc.
The post holder will work collaboratively with people with learning disabilities, their carers, professionals and agencies to provide a high quality, comprehensive and dynamic specialist nursing services with the central aim of maintaining and improving the health and wellbeing of adults with learning disabilities. This will include but is not limited to, working directly with service users who have complex healthcare needs, care coordination, supporting others to act as Health Facilitators, supporting health providers to make reasonable adjustments to care pathways and engaging in a range of health promotion activities.
Most of the nurses in our team are learning disabilities nurses - however we are open to nurses from other backgrounds such as mental health, adult or children’s applying if they have relevant experience and enthusiasm.

EVERYTHING WE DO IS UNDERPINNED BY OUR CORE VALUES: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received .
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more information about this role

Please refer the Job description for details