Learning Disability Nurse

Gloucestershire’s CAMHS provides high quality specialist Mental Health and Learning Disability Services to children and young people and has locality bases in Stroud, Cheltenham and Gloucester.

This is a part time post of 18.75 hrs per week.

This is an excellent opportunity to work in the children’s Learning Disability Service. We are seeking a highly motivated and committed individual to join our team. The role involves holding a clinical caseload of children and young people with moderate-severe Learning Disabilities. To offer assessment and interventions for children experiencing, mental health problems, and /or challenging behaviour, including sleep difficulties. We adopt a PBS (positive behaviour support) approach throughout our work.

Provide a range of CAMHS LD assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people (0-18yrs) as well as their families/carers who present with emotional and mental health difficulties as well as those children and young people who have learning disabilities.

Undertake clinical responsibility for a caseload, adhering to risk management and care planning processes and liaising with Trust and multi-agency partners across Gloucestershire as required.

Provide CAMHS LD clinical risk assessments and risk management plans as part of routine clinical work.

Provide clinical interventions within a multidisciplinary team where expected roles, responsibilities and activity/performance expectations are outlined within a personal (team based) job plan. This job plan will be reviewed on a quarterly basis and may be adjusted to meet team or service led requirements.

Provide CAMHS LD consultation, training and advice to professionals working within a range of children’s services within Gloucestershire as required.

Demonstrate commitment to working with team colleagues to develop a strong multidisciplinary ethos and focus to delivering high quality clinical services.

The “voice” of the child will be central to developing personalised care planning for all children and young people.

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.

76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.

81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Undertake clinical responsibility for a caseload including meeting all clinical and operational requirements expected of a CAMHS Care Coordinator in line with the Care Programme Approach (CPA) as well as current evidence based or best practice. This will include collaboratively working and liaising with Trust and multi-agency partners across Gloucestershire as required.

Provide CAMHS clinical risk assessments and risk management plans as part of routine clinical work ensuring that all aspects of clinical caseload work adheres to current Trust safeguarding as well as risk assessment and management best practice procedures.