Primary Care Liaison Nurse (RMN/RNLD)

Band 7 Primary Care Liaison Nurse - Combined Health Check Pilot 2 WTE.

Do you have a passion for improving the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities, autistic people and/or people with serious mental illness ?

Are you interested in reducing health inequalities for these people?

Are you a registered learning disability/mental health nurse with great facilitation & communication skills?

The LDA Collaborative has been successful in receiving National funding to lead an exciting project to pilot a combined health check for people with a LD, autistic people and people with a SMI. As part of this project, we are looking for 2 dynamic clinicians who have experience in mental health, learning disability and/or autism. This post is a 1 year fixed term, secondments will also be considered.

If you are committed, dynamic and really want to make a difference to people lives please complete an application!

For more information, please contact Rebecca Eccles 07917000256 -LDA Equity Lead or Laura Smith 07769882851- Head of Services LDA

Please note the proposed interview dates are tentative and may be changed, please get in touch if you need to know the confirmed date prior to shortlisting.

Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)

The Primary Care Liaison Nurses (PCLN) will support in co-designing, developing & testing a combined health check template and associated resources. The clinicians will work with Primary care to identify approx. 500 patients to receive the health check; providing training and support to enhance the quality of the health check.

You will be part of formally evaluating the project and reporting the findings locally to the LDA Collaborative and Nationally to NHSE.

You will be based at County Hall alongside the existing PCLN team but will be out closely working with the identified Primary Care Services and GP’s across Leicester, Leicestershire or Rutland. Successful candidates will be working a 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday between 9-5; however some flexibility is required to work evenings and weekends to support training and events.

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.