Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

This is an exceptional opportunity for an ambitious, dynamic, self-motivated and talented learning disability nurse who can provide senior professional and educational leadership, within the Learning Disability and Neurodevelopmental Care Delivery Service (CDS).

The Learning Disability Workforce Lead will have responsibility for nurse education/training/development across East and West Sussex and Brighton and Hove, community and inpatient Learning Disability services and will work in conjunction with the Learning Disability Nurse Consultant and the Nursing Research, Education and Development Team.

Main duties of the job

We are keen to increase the number of learning disability nurses working in SPFT as we know what a difference they make to the lives of people with a learning disability.

The overall aim of this role is to increase the number of nurses working in the Trust who specialise in learning disability nursing in both inpatient and community settings whilst establishing a local career pathway from TNA roles to advanced practice and leadership roles

This is an exceptional opportunity for an ambitious, dynamic, self-motivated and talented learning disability nurse who can provide senior educational leadership for nursing in our learning disability inpatient and community services across Sussex. You would be supervised by our Learning Disability Nurse Consultant.

Working for our organisation

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is a large Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Trust in South East of England which covers an area of outstanding natural beauty. We are looking for a Learning Disability Workforce Development Lead (Nursing) to assist us in providing high quality services for the individuals (with a learning disability), carers and the local communities that we serve.

We want individuals and staff to recommend our organisation as a place where they would be happy for their friends and family to be treated. You can help us to do this by bringing your skills, experience and commitment to Sussex Partnership.

Sussex Partnership is an equal opportunities employer, with a sincere commitment to our people's health and emotional wellbeing and as such, we have signed the Time to Change pledge and provide a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated our services good, following their most recent inspection, and outstanding in the caring domain.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Learning Disability Workforce Lead will:

• Liaise with HEIs to establish a pipeline of learning disability student nurses locally
• Work with us to create the whole learning disability nurse pathway from TNA to Advanced practice and consultant roles
• Work closely with learning disability nurse practice educators and the learning disability practice education facilitators within our dynamic nurse Ed and research team in the trust

We are looking for applicants who understand the current challenges faced in the Learning Disability Nursing sector and who can bring energy and innovation to this role.

The successful applicant will have a sound working knowledge of contemporary drivers in Learning Disability practice including the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, the Equality Act. They will have a strong background of working in learning disability service provision and be able to evidence continued professional development. In addition, the successful applicant will join:

• A dynamic forward thinking and passionate team of nurses and other health professionals
• Receive supervision and CPD opportunities
• Play a fundamental part in shaping the future leaning disability workforce in Sussex

Applicants will need to be flexible and self-motivated, will be part of the Senior Management Team within the Learning Disability and Neurodevelopmental Services CDS with strong links to the Nursing, Research, Education and Development team.

Closing date for applications will be on Tuesday 17th May 2022 and interviews will take place at the beginning of June 2022 .

The successful interviewees will be asked to do a formal presentation as part of the interview process.

For more information please contact:

Jean Duffy, Learning Disability Nurse Consultant on 0747 1031941

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent
• Post qualification study to Master's level (or equivalent)
• Completion of Practice Assessors Course
• Meet NMC requirement for maintenance of registration including revalidation

- Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria

• Extensive experience as an operational or clinical manager
• Extensive experience of teaching in a clinical setting
• Demonstration of personal development
• Evidence of developed teaching skills with experience of teaching at pre and post registration degree level
• Experience of classroom teaching
• Demonstrate expert knowledge and understanding of nurse education and nurse education practice
• Experience of performance management
• Experience of staff management
• Demonstration of collaborative working with Multi professional teams /other services
• Evidence of ability to work in partnership with university colleagues
• Evidence of multi-professional training delivery

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.