Learning Disabilities- Clinical Lead

Thornbury Community Services (Part of Acacium Group)

Field based working from your area!

Permanent, Full Time + on call telephone support on a Rota system

£49,000+ £3,000 car allowance

Unlock your potential:

We have a new opportunity in our Learning Disability, Autism and Mental Health service to appoint a Clinical Lead – Learning Disabilities (LD), where they will be accountable for a caseload of services across their allocated region to ensure our clients receive world-class care.

In this role, they will assess, plan, implement, and review services, ensuring that care plans, risk assessments, and protocols are in place and up to date. They will train, coach, and develop the staff teams to ensure consistency, structure, and commitment to our clients and families. They will work effectively alongside families, as well as the operations, recruitment, and compliance teams, to safeguard clients and staff and to enable clients to have the best opportunity to live a fulfilling and rewarding life.

Part of Acacium Group, Thornbury Community Services, rated outstanding in our most recent CQC inspection, provides complex care in the community. We have an outstanding, high quality reputation of being able to stabilise highly complex packages of care quickly and with the ability to minimise risk, whilst keeping the client and their families at the centre of what we do. We offer a fantastic company culture in such a rewarding environment, where everyone works towards a common goal, all teams working collaboratively and putting our clients needs at the heart of our business!

Everyday you will...

• Undertake initial holistic nursing assessments in partnership with the service user and their family
• Develop individualised care plans in partnership with the service user, their families and other health care professionals to ensure goals are patient focused, realistic and achievable
• Produce standard and bespoke risk management plans for service users, ensuring any identified high risk is escalated and acted upon, working with other stakeholders to plan, monitor and review effectiveness of any plan in place 
• Be responsible for the delivery of client specific clinical training for staff within packages 
• Be accountable for ensuring all clients allocated are regularly reviewed in accordance with company policies, ensuring high standards of clinical practice and  reflecting current organisational and national guidelines and standards

What’s in it for you?

We love exceptional people, and in return, we offer an exciting place to work, with a wide range of benefits, rewards and opportunities to grow your career, including:

• Learning & development opportunities tailored to your role that will count towards your PIN re-validation, as well as fully funded qualifications
• Gym Flex- discounted gym memberships, UK-wide
• Events and incentives including regular team away days
• Rewards Portal offering discounts on shops, restaurants, bars and cinemas
• Rewards and recognition programme awarding monthly vouchers to nominated employees
• 25 days annual leave that increases upon each year of service
• Free flu vaccinations
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Life Assurance, Critical Illness Cover and Private Medical Insurance
• Optional charity involvement with 2 paid charity days a year

Join us and make a difference!

If you want to join a global, marketing-leading organisation who are committed to the human side of business, then look no further. Acacium Group is the UK’s largest healthcare staffing and solutions partner and specialise in the healthcare, social care, and life sciences industries. We are a business with scale, leading digital capabilities and a strong financial profile, with a vision to be the leading global healthcare solutions partner.

We are powered by the best people and have an unrivalled and diverse range of capabilities, all while incorporating our company values into everything we do - Putting People First, Always by your Side, Driven by Excellence.

Join us and play a key part of shaping the future of society and improving people’s lives!

To thrive in this role, you must have...

• A degree in Learning Disability Nursing and an active NMC registration
• Experience in complex or critical care, with demonstrated competencies in tracheostomy and ventilation
• Proven experience in managing clinical teams
• A valid driver’s license and access to a vehicle

Our Inclusion Commitment:

We are passionately committed to being a truly inclusive and diverse company- it is at the heart of our core value of Putting People First. We continue to enhance our culture of inclusion and diversity across all of our roles and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities.

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