Learning Disability Liaison Nurse

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a registered nurse to join the Learning Disability Liaison Nurse Team in Oxford. If you are passionate about supporting people with learning disabilities access healthcare and aspire to provide person-centred care in an acute hospital setting, we invite you to apply for this role.

You will have the opportunity to work in an experienced and skilled team, delivering high-quality patient care across emergency departments, inpatient and outpatient settings within the John Radcliffe Hospital, Horton General Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, and the Churchill Hospital.

Alongside the clinical element of the role, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and experience in delivering training, audits, quality improvement projects, and policy and pathway development.

Main duties of the job

The liaison nurse ensures that the needs of the person with a learning disability are met when they require care from the Trust's clinical services, facilitating access to the various wards and departments and ensuring good communication between people with learning disabilities, their families/carers, and Trust clinical teams.

• Provide exceptional patient care which is underpinned by evidence-based practice and OUH values.
• Work proactively and with a person-centred approach to ensure the needs of a person with learning disabilities are identified and met.
• Work collaboratively with carers, family, and support staff to ensure care is coordinated across agencies.
• Provide specialist nursing care for the team's caseload of patients.
• Communicate effective information to patients/relatives/carers and all members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Contribute to the development of services.
• Demonstrate, develop, and maintain specialist knowledge of learning disability nursing practice in order to act as a clinical expert and professional resource.
• Undertake the responsibilities associated with being a mentor and preceptor reflecting the beliefs about professional nursing practice and patient care.
• Conduct oneself in a professional manner and be a role model to others at all times commensurate with The Code (NMC 2015).

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training, and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington, and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards, and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues, and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement, and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Job responsibilities

For a full overview of the role and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

• Maintain patient dignity and confidentiality at all times.
• Lead on the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care from pre-admission to discharge, by demonstrating a collaborative approach through effective communication and decision-making between the multi-professional team, patients, and significant others.

Professional Practice

• Develop and maintain clinical skills and knowledge necessary to provide person-centred, evidence-based nursing care.

Leadership and Management

• Promote effective interpersonal relationships with all members of the multi-professional team thereby ensuring a good team spirit, collaborative and person-centred working practices.

Education and Training

• Be actively involved in the development, delivery, and support of training for all OUH staff to raise awareness and develop skills and knowledge of the needs of people with learning disabilities.

Improving Quality and Developing Practice

• Keep up to date with professional issues that influence nursing practice relating to the area of clinical practice, management education, and research.
• Demonstrate a commitment to evidence-based practice and clinical excellence. Using these skills, work collegiately to promote innovation and work within the nursing team in the provision of an excellent standard of patient care in line with Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) values.

Person Specification

Ability to work with people with learning disabilities and their families

• Registered Nurse for People with Learning Disabilities
• Experience in an acute healthcare setting
• Experience supporting families and social care

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£37,338 to £44,962 a year pro rata