Learning Disability Physical Health Liaison Clinical Lead
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust · Registered Nurse · viaNHS Jobs
£49387.00 to £56515.00
- Closing date
- 19 Oct 2026
- Posted
- 4d ago
- Specialism
- Registered Nurse
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Reference
- nhs-5640672
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Job summary
A rare and fantastic opportunity for a fixed-term opportunity.
Would you like to be at the forefront of exciting new developments within Adult Learning Disability services?Do you have a passion to work within specialist learning disability services?Do you want to contribute your experience and skills to new ways of working across an integrated care system (ICS)?We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated individual who would relish the opportunity to work in the adult Learning Disability Service within LPFT as a Learning Disability Physical Health Liaison Lead.
LPFT's adult learning disability service, provides specialist health support to people with learning disabilities who require assessment and/or treatment for their physical and mental health, including support with behaviours of concern. The adult learning disability service operates from three multi-disciplinary hubs, across Lincolnshire.
For further information prior to submitting an application, please contact: Sarah Marshall (Service Manager) sarah.marshall85@nhs.net
The core hours of the role are 9am-5pm Monday to Friday but there may be a need on occasions to work flexibly to support the service.
Main duties of the job
This is a community and hospital-based role providing physical healthcare support and liaison to professionals both within the Learning Disability service and partner agencies including GP practices and hospitals.
You will be responsible for ensuring a high standard of physical healthcare support is provided for service users with a Learning Disability whose complex physical healthcare need cannot be met without the support of specialist Learning Disability services.
The role involves managing a small complex caseload of patients who have a learning disability. You will work closely with the ULHT safeguarding lead in coordinating patient care providing support to the Acute liaison nurses and with primary care colleagues to support Community liaison nurses. As part of this role there is a requirement to support the validation of GP Quality Outcome Framework Learning Disability Registers annually. Part of the role will involve engaging with practices whose registers are not part of the Validation process to understand if additional support is required.
You will provide management and clinical supervision to staff within the service and provide support and training in respect of community and acute physical healthcare to the Learning Disability Service. To ensure a high standard or clinical practice and that clinical skills are updated as required.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Details
Date posted
12 October 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum
Contract
Secondment
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
274-12192-SP-A
Job locations
Unit 2 Long Leys Court
Long Leys Road
Lincoln
LN1 1EJ
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
Ensure clinical practice of members of the Learning Disability Liaison team is of a high standard and in line with best practice.
Ensure the Learning Disability Liaison team receive supervision, appraisal, and mandatory training in line with LPFTs policies.
Contribute to, and where requested, lead on the development of the Learning Disability Service.
Coordinate, and prioritise the workload of the team and ensure that all aspects of clinical and administrative are resourced within the limitations of the available staffing resources.
Ensure that staff develop the knowledge and skills required to meet the needs of clinical delivery, identifying to the Service Manager where there may be a skills deficit or lack of access to training required.
To undertake serious incident and complaint investigations on behalf of the wider Trust as requested by the Associate Director or The Quality Lead.
Undertake Audit of the Learning Disability Service performance and compliance to national and local standards.
Implement service development and action plans within the team and ensure that lessons learnt from investigations are embedded within the teams practice.
Ensure that information from Service and Trust meetings are passed to the team as appropriate and that team views are represented at Service and Trust meetings.
To deputise for the Service Manager when requested to do so.
Keep up to date on current practices in mental health and learning disabilities, including and lead on departmental training programmes and professional development education.
To support recruitment within the team and across the Learning Disability Service.
To attend relevant regional and national contributing professional development activities to maintain up-to-date skills and knowledge in meeting the needs of service users.
Assist the Service Manager by monitoring performance and activity targets.
Support the development and use of systems to monitor and review the Service Provision against national and local standards as a means of initiating and implementing change and ongoing improvement in services content, quality and delivery.
Play an active role in relevant professional and service improvement groups, within the service and Trust-wide.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
Ensure clinical practice of members of the Learning Disability Liaison team is of a high standard and in line with best practice.
Ensure the Learning Disability Liaison team receive supervision, appraisal, and mandatory training in line with LPFTs policies.
Contribute to, and where requested, lead on the development of the Learning Disability Service.
Coordinate, and prioritise the workload of the team and ensure that all aspects of clinical and administrative are resourced within the limitations of the available staffing resources.
Ensure that staff develop the knowledge and skills required to meet the needs of clinical delivery, identifying to the Service Manager where there may be a skills deficit or lack of access to training required.
To undertake serious incident and complaint investigations on behalf of the wider Trust as requested by the Associate Director or The Quality Lead.
Undertake Audit of the Learning Disability Service performance and compliance to national and local standards.
Implement service development and action plans within the team and ensure that lessons learnt from investigations are embedded within the teams practice.
Ensure that information from Service and Trust meetings are passed to the team as appropriate and that team views are represented at Service and Trust meetings.
To deputise for the Service Manager when requested to do so.
Keep up to date on current practices in mental health and learning disabilities, including and lead on departmental training programmes and professional development education.
To support recruitment within the team and across the Learning Disability Service.
To attend relevant regional and national contributing professional development activities to maintain up-to-date skills and knowledge in meeting the needs of service users.
Assist the Service Manager by monitoring performance and activity targets.
Support the development and use of systems to monitor and review the Service Provision against national and local standards as a means of initiating and implementing change and ongoing improvement in services content, quality and delivery.
Play an active role in relevant professional and service improvement groups, within the service and Trust-wide.
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