Senior Nurse Specialist in Learning Disability, Autism and STOMP

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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

We are thrilled to present an exceptional fixed-term senior nursing opportunity within the Southeast London Integrated Care System. We are actively seeking an experienced and autonomous nurse to join our LD and Autism (LDA) team, focusing on nursing care in STOMP and working towards reducing unnecessary psychotropic drugs for our primary care service users.

A secondment opportunity is available for current SLaM and Oxleas employees. Joining our team provides an exciting opportunity to actively contribute to the reduction of psychotropic drug use among individuals with learning disabilities and autism, enhancing their overall well-being.

Main duties of the job

If you are looking for a challenge and ready to undertake a specialist role then this may be just the job for you :

Responsibilities for this role include:

• Work closely with the SEL Learning Disability and Autism Prescribing Advisors, nurses, clinical psychologists, and behaviour practitioners to support service users during STOMP in primary care settings and assist in the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) triaging and referral process.
• Collaborate with the primary care workforce to provide nursing care for service users undergoing STOMP.
• Travel to home visits, community placements, and various departments for meetings.
• Conduct specialist nursing assessments, including risk assessment, formulation, management planning, implementation, and evaluation of clinical care.
• Work jointly with other professionals within the Learning Disability Partnership to ensure prompt and appropriate service delivery.
• Support STOMP service users transitioning from MHLD into primary care GPs and local service providers and monitor their physical and mental well-being during medicine optimisation and STOMP in primary care settings.
• Provide support, reassurance, referrals, and signposting to service users and carers who are clinically unstable.

Working for our organisation

The South East London Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together the health and care partners that serve our vibrant and highly diverse populations of residents in the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, and Greenwich - our Places.

Our partnership brings together six local authorities, over 200 general practices (operating within 35 Primary Care Networks), Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS FT, King's College Hospital NHS FT, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, South London and the Maudsley Mental Health FT and Oxleas FT. Importantly, the ICS seeks to be connected to the communities we serve (circa 1.92m residents) and work with the widest possible range of community, voluntary, and third-sector groups and organisations in each borough. The reach of our NHS provider portfolios extends beyond the borders of the ICS, across London, the south of England, and nationally for some services.

Our vision for the ICS is a highly performing, sustainable system that looks after its staff, responds to its communities and takes action to reduce the inequalities they experience. As a new organisation we have developed a system development plan South East London ICS - Integrated Care System (selondonics.org) that outlines the way in which we seek to operate and the steps we will take to realise the full potential of our partnership.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree or master's qualification and knowledge acquired through experience or training. Registration with the NMC
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team and extensive experience of working with people with a learning disability, autism and mental health problems
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.

Knowledge / Skills

Essential criteria

• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Knowledge of Mental and Physical health and people with Learning Disabilities and the inter dynamics of these
• Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data.
• Ability to adapt/change practise to be able to deliver the best service to teams with various cultures and differing operating environments
• Ability to work as part of a team and work flexibly to provide support to other departments and teams as and when necessary

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
• Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
• We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity

Please note:

• That all applications for this post will need to be made online
• That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
• That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
• That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
• That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
• That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
• That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
• That we are a smoke-free Trust

SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion , Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe'

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Senior Nurse Specialist- LD, Autism and STOMP JD and PS (PDF, 560.5KB)
• SLaM Staff Benefits (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Happy to Talk Flexible Working (PDF, 680.1KB)