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Community Learning Disability Nurse

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Worcester, WR5 1JGView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£39,959 to £48,117

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

2 November 2026

13 days left

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the South Worcestershire Community Learning Disabilities Team as a Band 6 Community Learning Disability Nur...

Actively manage an effective caseload, maintaining regular visits for service users.

Facilitate/teach effective systems to carers to enable the transfer of skills required for the management of service users' healthcare needs.

Facilitate Health Action Plans for each service user on caseload, to enable access to the full range of community care services available.

Promote and maintain good working relationships and systems of effective communication through liaison with service users, carers, and other professionals/agencies.

Maintain accurate and up to date clinical records in line with Trust/NMC standards of practice.

Record activity to meet the requirements of the Electronic Patient Recording System.

Attend team, MDT and multi-agency meetings as appropriate.

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Ensure the process of referral, assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care is efficiently and effectively delivered with clear quality outcomes.

Promote the values and principles of person-centred planning approaches, maintaining effective continuity of care.

Undertaking specialist healthcare assessments, ensuring referral evaluation, data analysis and intervention planning is identified to enable service access.

Implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of therapeutic nursing interventions based on a comprehensive assessment using a recognised nursing model of care.

Put patient care at the heart of the work to improve health care outcomes and service delivery.

Deliver the highest standards and quality outcomes possible.

Encourage others to develop themselves and the service through improvement, innovation, and continuous development.

Joint working with others, e.g. patients, carers and colleagues in the delivery of high-quality healthcare.

Build positive working relationships, respecting and valuing others, being helpful and inclusive.

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer;

  • 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
  • Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
  • Flexible and agile working opportunities
  • Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
  • Wide range of supportive staff networks
  • Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit our website Staff benefits | Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

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Qualifications

Essential: - RNLD; - BSc in Community Health Studies or equivalent relevant experience; - Evidence of post registration training/qualifications

Desirable: - Student mentorship; - NVQ Assessor; - Diploma in Epilepsy

Experience

Essential

  • Considerable experience as a practising Community Nurse
  • Comprehensive assessments
  • Cognitive therapy
  • Nursing models / theories
  • Therapeutic intervention planning
  • Clinical governance initiatives/projects
  • Child protection procedures
  • Vulnerable adults procedures
  • Health facilitation
  • Clinical supervision/reflective practice
  • Mentor / supervisory role
  • Monitoring and reviewing case management
  • Risk management strategies
  • Research
  • Audit / outcome measures
  • Delivery of staff training
  • Evidenced based clinical practice
  • Non-aversive behavioural approach
  • Cultural needs of minority groups
  • Person centred approaches

Desirable: - Dual diagnosis; - Staff development reviews; - Person centred planning; - Primary care initiatives/ projects etc

Knowledge

Essential

  • Good knowledge of working with people with a learning disability and their families and carers
  • Good knowledge of making reasonable adjustments for people with learning disabilities and vulnerabilities
  • A good level of knowledge of current policies and legislations that impact upon people with a learning disability
  • A good level of knowledge in a wide range of common health care conditions in people with learning and other disabilities and vulnerabilities including common long term conditions
  • Child protection and vulnerable adults' procedures
  • National guidelines re: role of Community Nurse
  • Mental Health Act

Skills & Abilities

Essential: - Report writing; - Clinical documentation; - Developing assessment formats

Additional Criteria

Essential: - Able to meet the travel requirements of the post

How to apply

Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.

Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

19 October 2026

Last checked

20 October 2026

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About the employer

HAW
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

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