Community Learning Disability Nurse | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

This Community Learning Disability nursing position is an exciting opportunity for a qualified nurse to join an innovative and welcoming community team in Bexley.

The post holder will work alongside colleagues in the Mental Health in Learning Disabilities team together with a Consultant Psychiatrist specialising in learning Disabilities, as well as with colleagues in the Complex Physical Health nursing team. The post holder will be expected to manage a caseload of adults with learning disabilities in the community, covering both pathways.

This role will enable the post holder to develop their knowledge in both specialist fields and provide valuable learning opportunities when working alongside experiences nurses and specialist support workers within this community setting.

• The Community Learning Disability Nurse will deliver high quality, personalised, compassionate care to service users in the community, providing a range of specialist interventions.
• Ensure consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence, which comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of professional conduct.
• Lead the delivery of comprehensive service user risk assessment & care planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of service user-centred care in a range of settings.
• Provide clinical supervision and support to junior colleagues, including students.
• Assist and support the manager, as directed, to deliver a nurse-led integrated care service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.
• Maintain a safe and therapeutic working environment, working collaboratively with the Multi-Disciplinary Team and maintaining accurate records.
• Band 5 Nursing roles are only open to staff with a Nursing registration, obtained as a result of completing a qualification recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
• Exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and have the ability to plan and reach complex and critical judgments, using decision-making skills.
• Deliver high-quality clinical care in line with the relevant NHS Plan, competency framework, public health indicators and/or National Service Frameworks.
• Lead on and undertake activities to ensure that the fundamentals of care are met – nutrition, hydration, comfort, emotional and social support.
• Demonstrate and provide robust clinical skills with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality and outcome-driven practice on a day-to-day basis.
• Demonstrate an enhanced understanding of Physical and/or Mental Health signs and symptoms, understanding how these may present in practice, including recognition of the impact on service user presentation, behaviour and risk factors.
• Recognise and respond appropriately to challenging behaviour in line with Trust policies and training. Support junior staff in managing difficult situations and de-escalation, developing resilience and strategies to manage.
• Support the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and promote research as appropriate.

This advert closes on Sunday 10 May 2026

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