Community Learning Disability Nurse – Bromley

Key Responsibilities

• Work in the Bromley CTLD Complex Physical Health (CPH) team, focusing on complex physical health needs.
• Manage a caseload of adults with a broad spectrum of physical health issues, working autonomously.
• Provide holistic, high-quality, evidence-based nursing care, assessments, and interventions.
• Facilitate health education and health promotion training and group work with clients and carers.
• Support students and junior staff, providing a learning experience.
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team and partner agencies/services.
• Provide robust health liaison to acute and primary care to ensure service user access to mainstream services.
• Demonstrate awareness of diversity and multicultural issues.
• Apply national strategies, frameworks, and plans to meet the needs of service users regarding their physical health and wellbeing.
• Identify and provide appropriate support for the social well-being of individual service users.
• Work alongside the MDT and wider services to address issues for service users accessing services relevant to their health and social needs.
• Provide health promotion relevant to individual service user needs, supporting their support network to improve health and prevent avoidable hospital admissions.
• Liaise with mainstream services and advocate for service users needs to promote access to services.
• Develop professional skills and knowledge through continued professional development (mandatory and relevant to the role).
• Adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct at all times.

Skills and Expertise

• Learning Disability Nursing
• Complex Physical Health
• Case Management
• Multi-Disciplinary Teamwork
• Health Promotion
• Health Education
• Holistic Care
• Evidence-Based Practice
• Liaison with Mainstream Services