Senior Nurse Specialist in Learning Disability, Autism and STOMP

Senior Nurse Specialist in Learning Disability, Autism and STOMP South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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.

About us

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 planSouth 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.

Job 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

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

Experience

• 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

• 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

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.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

LD and Autism Specialist Prescribing Advisor

Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working,Home or remote working