Main area: Learning Disability Intensive Support Team
Grade: 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 351-SPS1313-SH
Site: L7F9 L7839 LD Intensive Support Team
Town: Preston
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/01/2025 23:59
Our Vision : To provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community-based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, believing that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Modern Matron (8a) to join the Learning Disability Intensive Support team.
We are looking for a Registered Nurse in Learning Disability who is forward-thinking, innovative, and creative. Do you have a can-do attitude to problem-solving? Do you champion service user and family carer involvement? Are you a team player who leads with compassion and inclusivity?
If so, this is the role for you. The Intensive Support team is an all-age team who work with people with a learning disability and additional complex needs to prevent inappropriate admissions to hospital. The team is multi-disciplinary and works across the whole of Lancashire and South Cumbria. The modern matron will be responsible for the operational and clinical leadership of the team ensuring patient experience is a priority. You will be expected to provide leadership and clinical expertise within the IST, working collaboratively with people with lived experience and registered practitioners.
This is a community role and will require travel between various sites across Lancashire and South Cumbria. You must have the ability to access your own travel for this role.
Main duties of the job
The post holder supports the delivery of the intensive support team model providing leadership to professional and direct care staff, ensuring the availability of appropriate administrative support services in the team to release clinical time to care. The post holder will be expected to work Monday to Friday 9am-5pm with their colleagues providing leadership and clinical expertise to the team and advice to external agencies as required. The Matron will provide a visible, accessible, and authoritative presence in the team, to whom service users and their families can turn for assistance, advice, and support. Matrons must be clinically up to date and credible, having clinical skills expecting others to perform and being passionate about driving up clinical and professional standards. They will lead on quality agenda within the clinical team. Working for our organisation
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health, and forensic services including low and medium secure care. The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area. Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, believing that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time, and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview. For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT. Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role. Person specification
Education / Qualifications
RNLD, advanced diploma in Positive Behaviour Support or equivalent. Degree or demonstrable evidence of study at higher level in Applied Behaviour Analysis and/or Positive Behaviour Support or willingness to work towards. Knowledge
Sound understanding of contemporary Learning Disability agenda and clinical skills. Experience
Management role within a multi-disciplinary service at a senior level. Ability to analyse and resolve management problems. Experience of supervision and appraisal systems. Substantial clinical experience with progressive career/management development. Skills and Abilities
Leadership skills, excellent communicator with an ability to communicate with all staff at all levels of the organisation. Please note that further communication from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCft to contact them. Please be aware the use of artificial intelligence (AI) when submitting an application is monitored and if you have used AI to generate an application, you are required to declare this on your application form. AI-generated content may lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description. Personalisation is essential when submitting an application form to convey your skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively. Please ensure that you read the person specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document. Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts. For all posts which require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check please be aware of the Disclosure and Barring Service Code of Practice, a copy of which is available by logging on to the DBS website. If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s). You are advised to consider applying for LSCft vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates. LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (particularly those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. If there is anything you’d like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask. Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. 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.
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The post holder supports the delivery of the intensive support team model providing leadership to professional and direct care staff, ensuring the availability of appropriate administrative support services in the team to release clinical time to care. The post holder will be expected to work Monday to Friday 9am-5pm with their colleagues providing leadership and clinical expertise to the team and advice to external agencies as required. The Matron will provide a visible, accessible, and authoritative presence in the team, to whom service users and their families can turn for assistance, advice, and support. Matrons must be clinically up to date and credible, having clinical skills expecting others to perform and being passionate about driving up clinical and professional standards. They will lead on quality agenda within the clinical team. Working for our organisation
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health, and forensic services including low and medium secure care. The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area. Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, believing that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time, and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview. For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT. Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role. Person specification
Education / Qualifications
RNLD, advanced diploma in Positive Behaviour Support or equivalent. Degree or demonstrable evidence of study at higher level in Applied Behaviour Analysis and/or Positive Behaviour Support or willingness to work towards. Knowledge
Sound understanding of contemporary Learning Disability agenda and clinical skills. Experience
Management role within a multi-disciplinary service at a senior level. Ability to analyse and resolve management problems. Experience of supervision and appraisal systems. Substantial clinical experience with progressive career/management development. Skills and Abilities
Leadership skills, excellent communicator with an ability to communicate with all staff at all levels of the organisation. Please note that further communication from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCft to contact them. Please be aware the use of artificial intelligence (AI) when submitting an application is monitored and if you have used AI to generate an application, you are required to declare this on your application form. AI-generated content may lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description. Personalisation is essential when submitting an application form to convey your skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively. Please ensure that you read the person specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document. Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts. For all posts which require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check please be aware of the Disclosure and Barring Service Code of Practice, a copy of which is available by logging on to the DBS website. If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s). You are advised to consider applying for LSCft vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates. LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (particularly those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. If there is anything you’d like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask. Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. 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.
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