Lead Professional Learning Disability Acute Liaison Service

The post holder will work across the Northern Care Alliance and lead the NCA Learning Disabilities Acute liaison service providing highly expert knowledge and support to ensure the organisation meets its responsibilities with regard to adults, children and young people with learning disabilities, their families and /or Carers.

The post holder will provide leadership, strategic direction and assurance in accordance with the national agenda and the Trust wide Learning Disability strategy to ensure recognition and delivery of key recommendations and standards across the NCA.

• Provide expert highly specialist advice and support across the organisation on all matters involving adults, children and young people with learning disabilities
• provide leadership and champion the needs of adults, children and young people with learning disabilities across the Alliance.
• Provide effective professional leadership to the wider multi agency professional teams within the organisation and influence practice throughout the Alliance to enhance service provision/delivery
• To support all activities to ensure the organisation meets its responsibilities with regard to adults, children and young people with learning disabilities.
• The post holder will provide leadership, strategic direction and assurance in accordance with the national agenda and the Trust wide Learning Disability strategy to ensure recognition and delivery of key recommendations and standards across the NCA.
• The post holder will work collaboratively with professional practitioners both internally and externally to ensure the delivery of a whole systems approach for the identification and treatment of patients with learning disabilities using NCA services.
• The post holder will work across the Northern Care Alliance and within a multi-agency arena, providing highly specialist evidence based knowledge and leadership on the issues affecting the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities in acute and community settings.
  
  

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Clare Kelly Job title: Associate Director of nursing for Safeguarding Email address: clare.kelly@nca.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07872328814

For an informal discussion please contact Clare Kelly on 0161 2063803 or 07872328814.