Registered Learning Disability Nurse

About the role

This is a highly skilled nursing role where you will be accountable and responsible for supporting people’s holistic needs. It requires a range of clinical and nursing skills. You will provide the highest standards of nursing care for adults living with complex care and health needs. Our care focuses on maximising independence and building everyday living skills.

• Assessing, planning and implementing care for the people we support providing person-centred and evidence-based nursing care.
• Developing collaborative, needs-based care plans through assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation.
• Safe administration of medication promoting health and wellbeing.
• Being the Nurse in Charge of a small unit whilst on shift.
• Managing situations when people display behaviours which may challenge promoting choice, dignity, independence and respect.

Above all, you are someone who identifies with our Exemplar Health Care values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork. You will also be:

• A great role model able to coach, teach and support your colleagues.
• Someone with a calm nature who can deal with, and defuse, challenging situations.
• An advocate of best practice in nursing able to demonstrate a range of clinical skills.
• Knowledgeable about assessment, admission and discharge processes.
• Knowledgeable of the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and committed to working within its Codes of Practice.

We offer great rewards and perks including: excellent supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects. Retail and lifestyle reward discounts free DBS check, electric car salary sacrifice scheme paid NMC membership paid access to the RCNi Learning platform 24/7 counselling and support Blue Light Card eligibility.

To apply for this role, you must have a first-level nursing registration with a valid Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) PIN. We are looking for Registered Nurses from all backgrounds (Adult, Mental Health and Learning Disability Nurses).