Senior Nurse Practitioner

Senior Nurse Practitioner

The closing date is 21 July 2026.

The Specialist Nurse Practitioner – Learning Disability Nurse for Community Learning Disability Services will provide direct clinical care to adults with learning disabilities and highly complex needs, assessing, planning, and implementing care across community teams; maintaining associated healthcare records and evaluating both their own care, and that of junior staff where required.

• Provide clinical leadership across a defined area of Nursing Care and Practice.
• Offer support and supervision to colleagues and provide specialist advice relevant to clinical practice and expertise.
• Be responsible for delivering training to team members as well as to teams outside of LD services and the wider Trust.
• Provide clinical advice and leadership to CLDT managers and profession‑specific advice to the Community Operations Manager.
• Undertake research and lead on clinical audits relevant to nursing and specialist practice.
• Provide professional leadership to Community Services and partner with the Learning Disability Matron to ensure robust nursing leadership.
• Be a valued member of our highly supportive multi‑disciplinary, community learning disability services.

• Develop positive working relationships to influence the development of best practice.
• Facilitate collaborative approaches, active presence, and contribution at forums.
• Formulate, plan, and deliver care for highly complex, sensitive, and often contentious information.
• Work with peers and partners to develop and support good practice and maintain professional nursing standards.
• Act as a clinical expert providing highly complex advice, direction, and leadership.
• Demonstrate understanding of key nursing practice development needs for people with learning disabilities.
• Involve in practice development and innovation, including development and review of clinical pathways.
• Support the implementation of approved outcome measures to advance nursing practice.
• Ensure practice complies with NICE guidelines and reflects best nursing practice.
• Lead initiatives to motivate, negotiate, and support service improvements, overcoming barriers and resistance.

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of mental health and learning disability services in Leeds, with specialist inpatient services in York and other advanced services across the country. As a teaching trust linked to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research, and development.

We offer benefits such as employee wellbeing support, 27–33 days annual leave, flexible and remote working arrangements, NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, career development opportunities, training and education support, and exclusive discounts for cars, extra leave days, and NHS discounts.

We support applicants requiring visa sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles (not for Health Care Support Workers). Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements must be met to be considered for this role.

• Contribute to critical incident reviews and investigations, supporting the process and identifying learning outcomes.
• Support the development and implementation of processes to review and disseminate learning from critical incident reviews.
• Escalate practice concerns to the Lead Nurse/Matron, including sensitive or difficult issues.
• Lead dissemination and communication of knowledge gained from research and evidence to inform clinical practice.
• Engage in clinical audit and research and development, developing audits relevant to learning disability nursing practice.
• Support people with complex health issues secondary to learning disability, including mental illness, physical health, or challenging behaviour.
• Hold a caseload of complex service users, assess and proactively manage risk.
• Assess care needs in response to highly complex presentations and develop specialised programmes/packages of care.
• Accountable for assessing, planning, implementing care across community teams and maintaining records.
• Provide specialist training for learning disability…