Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a community nurse to join their devoted team, which provides professional care and support to people with disabilities. This position is ideal for a registered nurse (RN) who has worked with persons with disabilities and is passionate about providing high-quality, community-based healthcare.
Visa sponsorship is available for qualified international candidates, making this a great opportunity to advance your nursing career in the UK
About the Trust
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is a leading provider of mental health, learning disability, and neurodiversity care across Leeds and beyond. As the primary provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds, the Trust also delivers adult neurodiversity services in the area, alongside specialist services across West Yorkshire, Humber & North Yorkshire, and highly specialised services across the North of England.
LYPFT’s dedicated and compassionate staff bring expertise, innovation, and respect to a wide range of specialist services, ensuring people-centred care that empowers individuals to achieve their personal goals. From community support to crisis treatment, the Trust is committed to enhancing lives and promoting well-being.
With a mission to improve health and well-being, LYPFT strives to provide outstanding care, foster an excellent working environment, and build strong partnerships. By actively involving individuals in their care, the Trust ensures that every person it supports has the opportunity to lead a fulfilling and empowered life.
Position: Community Nurse
Salary: £37,338 -£44,962 per annum
Job Type: Part Time – 30 hours a week
Location: Leeds, UK
Working for our organisation
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 – 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Highlighting and leading upon service improvement initiatives.
- Providing support for junior staff and learners.
- Providing evidence-based care.
- Having experience of time management in terms of a caseload or project work.
- Timely delivery of the nursing process in terms of assessment, planning, intervention and review.
- Experience of undertaking various assessment such as biopsychosocial assessments and following clinical pathways.
- Experience of risk management.
- Being able to work in a hybrid and flexible way.
- Look to provide robust managerial and clinical supervision.
- Professional development through accessing opportunities as identified in appraisals.
- Developing training tools and providing training as required.
- Having an understanding of Safeguarding principles.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified and registered RNLD/RNMH
Experience (Essential criteria)
- Experience of working with people with a learning disability
- Experience of working with a multi-disciplinary or multi-agency team
Skills (Essential criteria)
- Must be driver with access to a vehicle.
- Evidence of professional development
Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position based on a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application. Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.
Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks.
The purpose of a temporary is role could be for maternity cover, temporary funding or some other reason. At the end of which the need for the temporary work will cease. Temporary roles can stop, be extended and/or made permanent at any point during the period of work. Should the role become permanent then the post-holder will be informed of the process to be followed to convert the position to a permanent one.
Benefits
Certificate of Sponsorship is available to candidates who meet the requirements.
How To Apply: Community Nurse at Leeds and York NHS Trust
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