Community Ld Nurse

22.5 hours per week.

The Community Nurse is responsible for assessing, planning, coordinating, and reviewing a caseload of adults with learning disabilities. They may have either or both physical and mental health complex care needs. This will include relationships with Primary and Secondary health care, as well as private and voluntary care agencies.

The Community Learning Disability Service covers Plymouth City offering a specialist service to Adults with a Learning Disability registered to a Plymouth GP surgery and comes under the City-Wide Locality Services.

The service is led by the Service Manager and 2 Group Managers and professional leads. We focus on Multi-Disciplinary/Professional led care. The team provides Consultant Psychiatry care alongside Psychology, Nursing (learning Disability and Mental Health), Speech and Language, Occupational Therapy, Dietician, Positive Behavioural Support, Health Education and Promotion, Primary Care Liaison Nurses and Community Support Workers.

To be responsible for providing clinical support whilst promoting the effective and efficient delivery of high-quality outcome focused service in a person-centred approach.

This is a generic community care role providing support and cover across Plymouth city localities.

To be responsible for providing clinical support whilst promoting the effective and efficient delivery of high-quality service to the LD population.

There is responsibility for participating in reviewing a persons eligibility for Continuing Healthcare funding and is responsible for making consistent and well-informed professional decisions about the determination of CHC funding, ensuring that the national framework is applied, and they adhere to all local policies and procedures.

This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route; please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility.

All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.

Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.

As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values,kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve.

We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.

We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.

• protected CPD time
• training pathways
• leadership programs
• funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships

Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.

• Participating in the undertaking of health needs reviews and health assessments to identify needs and plan care accordingly.
• To identify, plan and manage risk of an individuals care needs, relating to physical health, behavioural and or mental health.
• To be responsible for assessing, planning and making recommendations for future care in partnership with patient, carer and multi-professional agencies including case conferences for reviewing the packages of care and care co-coordinating as appropriate.
• To liaise with Primary and Secondary care agencies to ensure better health outcomes for individuals.
• To work within the Mental Capacity Act and evidence best interest decision making.
• To maintain effective and appropriate communication networks with members of the multi-disciplinary…