Charge Nurse Single Point of Access

Job summary

The Hampshire and Southampton Learning Disability Service is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Charge Nurse to join our Single Point of Access (SPoA) team, the gateway to our specialist service. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in improving the health and wellbeing of adults with learning disabilities by ensuring they receive the right support, at the right time, from the right service.

Our Learning Disability Service is committed to delivering high-quality, person-centred healthcare across Hampshire and Southampton, supporting adults with learning disabilities to achieve the best possible health outcomes.

Main duties of the job

About the Role

As a valued member of our innovative and forward-thinking SPoA team, you will work alongside a vibrant rotational multi-disciplinary team, undertaking comprehensive assessments of referrals and helping determine unmet health needs that may require specialist learning disability support.

This is a varied and rewarding role where no two days are the same. You will be responsible for:

• Completing comprehensive assessments and triage of referrals.
• Providing expert clinical input to support decision-making and care planning.
• Communicating effectively with patients, families, carers and professionals.
• Working collaboratively with a wide range of internal and external partners.
• Supporting the delivery of high-quality, responsive and accessible learning disability services.

About You

We are looking for a compassionate and skilled clinician who is

• A confident and experienced Learning Disability Nurse (other nursing fields will be considered with evidence of learning disability practice experience).
• An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills.
• Organised, adaptable and able to manage competing priorities.
• Experienced in assessment and clinical decision-making.
• Proficient in IT and administrative systems.
• Passionate about improving outcomes for people with learning disabilities.

If you are seeking a role that allows you to use your clinical expertise, influence service access, and work within a supportive and dynamic multidisciplinary team, we would love to hear from you.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• RNLD (registrants in other fields of nursing will be considered with evidence of practice experience working with people with learning disabilities).Computer literacyMentorship courseClinical supervision training

Desirable

• Level 6 or Level 7 learningLeadership course

Experience

Essential

• In depth experience of working with people with a learning disability, preferable within a community team setting.Excellent communication skills (written & verbal).Evidence of ability to work in a way which is flexible and responsive to the needs of individual service users.Evidence about clarity of the level of performance expected and how to support self and others to achieve this.Evidence of ability to change or adapt the way things are or explore opportunities change processes and work flexibly.Evidence of ability to build effective working relationships with other care and support providers outside the organisation.Evidence of effective team working and leadership skills.Ability to work autonomously and under pressure and set priorities for self and team staffDetailed knowledge of learning disability guidelines in current practice.Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance and its application.Ability to inject pace, energy and positivity into the work environment.Actively seeks and implements ideas for improving the quality of service from those working in their team, and the patients we serve.Ability to attend base daily when required is essential.

Desirable

• Experience of RIO computer system.
• Evidence of championing service development.
• Coaching or leadership course.
• Membership of specialist clinical interest group (CAP).
• Evidence of ability to build effective working relationships with other care and support providers outside the organisation.
• Access to vehicle for work purposes is desirable. Ability to attend base daily when required, is essential.