Learning Disability Physical Health Liaison Clinical Lead

Main area Learning Disabilities and Autism Grade NHS AfC:
Band 7 Contract Secondment: 12 months Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Unit 2 Long Leys Court Town Lincoln Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 19/10/2026 23:59

A rare and fantastic opportunity for a fixed-term opportunity.

Would you like to be at the forefront of exciting new developments within Adult Learning Disability services?
Do you have a passion to work within specialist learning disability services?
Do you want to contribute your experience and skills to new ways of working across an integrated care system (ICS)?
We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated individual who would relish the opportunity to work in the adult Learning Disability Service within LPFT as a Learning Disability Physical Health Liaison Lead.

LPFT's adult learning disability service, provides specialist health support to people with learning disabilities who require assessment and/or treatment for their physical and mental health, including support with behaviours of concern. The adult learning disability service operates from three multi-disciplinary hubs, across Lincolnshire.

For further information prior to submitting an application, please contact:
Sarah Marshall (Service Manager)

The core hours of the role are 9am-5pm Monday to Friday but there may be a need on occasions to work flexibly to support the service.

This is a community and hospital-based role providing physical healthcare support and liaison to professionals both within the Learning Disability service and partner agencies including GP practices and hospitals.

You will be responsible for ensuring a high standard of physical healthcare support is provided for service users with a Learning Disability whose complex physical healthcare need cannot be met without the support of specialist Learning Disability services.

The role involves managing a small complex caseload of patients who have a learning disability. You will work closely with the ULHT safeguarding lead in coordinating patient care providing support to the Acute liaison nurses and with primary care colleagues to support Community liaison nurses. As part of this role there is a requirement to support the validation of GP Quality Outcome Framework Learning Disability Registers annually.

Part of the role will involve engaging with practices whose registers are not part of the Validation process to understand if additional support is required.

You will provide management and clinical supervision to staff within the service and provide support and training in respect of community and acute physical healthcare to the Learning Disability Service. To ensure a high standard or clinical practice and that clinical skills are updated as required.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff…