Band 6 Community Nurse Frailty and Dementia

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Community Nurse Frailty and Dementia– Learning Disabilities – Band 6 (part time – 30 hours)

An e xciting opportunity has arisen for experienced and highly motivated individual to join community city wide service within the Learning Disabilities Service.

Due to the nature of the role this is open to Registered Nurses Learning Disability who have experience in supporting service users with frailty and or dementia.

The role involves providing specialist support and guidance to adults with learning disabilities who are frail and/or diagnosed with dementia and supporting their carers. The successful candidate will provide clinical services through the effective management of an active caseload.

You will be an experienced and flexible individual with excellent communication skills and a passion for multi disciplinary team working.

To work within the framework of a multi-disciplinary team to provide support and guidance to adults with learning disabilities and their carers.

To work within the framework of health facilitation (level one and two).

To co-ordinate a clinical service under the supervision of Senior Community Nurses.

To provide support to adults with learning disability who have dementia and/or frailty.

Be Part of Our Team…

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people’s homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

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To manage and co-ordinate a caseload under the supervision of the Senior Community Nurse.

To focus on individual health outcomes for people with learning disabilities and offer support to access health services.

To promote service development and planning within mainstream services supporting them to achieve Valuing People targets and examine initiatives to reduce health inequalities.

To assess, plan, implement, evaluate and review programmes of care and ensure measurable outcomes and discharges are efficiently and effectively carried out.