Registered Learning Disability Nurse / Mental Health
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust delivers a comprehensive pathway of trauma informed mental health and learning disability services across a multiple prison footprint.
We have an exciting opportunity to appoint a registered learning disability nurse or neurodevelopmental conditions practitioner with a mental health nurse registration to join our team at HMP Forest Bank.
The post holder will be an established and experienced registered learning disabilities nurse or registered mental health nurse with a neurodevelopmental conditions experience seeking to deliver a high standard of care to a diverse client group within HMP Forest Bank. As such, the post holder will maintain a clinical caseload of service users within the prison estate, as part of the wider mental health team.
Main duties of the job
- Assess, develop and implement care packages for service users within the framework of the CPA in conjunction with other members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Development and implementation of evidence based interventions in the management of service users with identified or suspected learning disability and/or neurodivergent needs.
- Utilise enhanced learning disability nursing skills with forensic clients who are difficult to assess and engage due to the environment and their presentation.
- Responsibility for the effective management of your own caseload and effectively utilise nursing skills and resources to provide high quality care.
Job responsibilities
- To complete service specified assessment tools within agreed timescales for those who are referred into the service.
- Assess, develop and implement care packages for service users within the framework of the CPA in conjunction with other members of the multi-disciplinary team. Works within codes of practice and professional guidelines and is accountable for own professional practice.
- To manage a defined caseload of complex and challenging service users in custodial settings.
- Develop and implement evidence-based interventions in the management of service users with identified/suspected learning disabilities.
- Ensure clinical effectiveness in working with patients, families and carers, including people who disengage from services, by facilitating engagement and therapeutic co-operation through the use of flexible and responsive engagement strategies which by the very nature of the client group can be complex and demanding.
- To maintain an up to date learning disabilities register, ensuring the completion of annual health checks for those with recognised learning disabilities.
- To provide training and advice for clinical and non-clinical staff, inclusive of training around learning disabilities, learning difficulties and autism awareness.
- Work in close partnership with other members of the intergrateed healthcare team in the prison.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Evidence of post registration training and continued professional development
Experience
- 2 years post registration experience and completion of preceptorship programme
- Experience working with service users in a forensic setting
Knowledge
- Have knowledge around learning disabilities and neuro developmental conditions
- Knowledge of common mental health problems
- Awareness of NICE Guidlines relating to the care of individuals with a learning neurodevelopmental conditons
- Working knowledge of the stepped care model
Skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of factors affecting secure mental health and the contemporary mentl health agenda
- Able to work on own initive and plan workload effectively responding to changing priorities
- Ability to write reports and present information in a concise way
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.
£39,959 to £48,117 a year, pro rata
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