Job summary

We require a Learning Disabilities Nurse or someone with similar experience you will lead a team of reviewers implementing the learning Disabilities Mortality review (LeDeR) programme of work and ensuring recommendations around health inequalities for people with a learning disability and autistic people are translated into delivery of quality improvement across the integrated care system.

You will become part of a wider team supporting commissioning and service transformation for people with a learning disability and autistic people, working mostly from home, you will receive regular individual and group support, on-going CPD and training, and support within this role to help further develop your skills and competencies in this specialist field

Main duties of the job

The post holder will oversee the LeDeR Team (within the Nursing and Quality Directorate) & will ensure the delivery of the LeDeR programme which requires conducting retrospective reviews of each death of individuals with a learning disability and autistic people that have been notified to the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough LeDeR programme.

The post holder will be expected to effectively liaise and collaborate with all key partners and stakeholders at all levels. This will involve working and liaising closely with a range of colleagues from the statutory, non-statutory and independent/voluntary sectors, the spectrum of health and social care services across Cambridge and Peterborough ICS , Local Authority partners, Primary Care, other NHS Provider trusts (acute, mental health and community) and other relevant statutory and 3rd sector organisations, who are commissioned to provide services as well as patient and carer groups and families of those who have died, to support the local programme.

The role has a particular focus on the Local Area Contact functions, developing and maintaining the whole programme in line with the best national practice, and ensuring that learning recommendations to address health inequalities are shared and implemented across the Integrated care System (ICS).

About us

NHS Cambridgeshire & Peterborough is an Integrated Care Board (ICB) and the statutory NHS organisation responsible for planning and delivering local health and care services to the population and communities of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough.

Working collaboratively with partner organisations, including the VCSE sector, it oversees the commissioning, performance, financial management and transformation of the local NHS, as part of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care System (ICS).

We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender, identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances.

We are a predominantly home based organisation. Some roles within the ICB are not suitable for the sole use of public transport and/or where there is a long journey from home to where work routinely takes place.

Date posted

05 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£58,972 to £68,525 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

D9644-24-011x

Job locations

Gemini House

Cambridgeshire Business Park

Ely

CB7 4EA

Job description

Job responsibilities

Work internally and externally to deliver the responsibilities of the LeDeR programme.

Develop resources to support Reviewers to conduct quality reviews and enable Reviewers to adequately support bereaved carers and families with whom they come into contact through the course of undertaking a review.

Work with others to ensure effective processes are put into place to streamline the completion of investigations/reviews where processes have the potential to overlap (for example Child Death Overview panel, Safeguarding Adults Review, Coroners Inquest)

Ensure that Safeguarding principles are considered and applied within all elements of the LeDeR programme and establish links with key local Safeguarding contacts and ensure that any concerns are reported as per Safeguarding Children and Adults policies.

With support from the LeDeR Steering Groups develop a communication and briefing approach in sharing lessons learned from mortality reviews both locally and nationally for dissemination across the health and care

Support the identification and sharing of best practice in the LeDeR process.

Share, present and submit the learning from completed reviews with the local teams and other partners to support identification of learning that can be actioned. To collate and analyse information from completed reviews and feedback to local groups and other forums as required.

Have the ability to convey and present complex, sensitive and possibly contentious information to a range of audiences - this information includes, but is not limited to, feedback to and from families of deceased clients as well as learning and feedback from reviews which may challenge system partners and local groups.

Ensure reviews and associated outcomes are delivered on time to quality standards. Collaborate with colleagues in Quality Assurance to review provider assurance where recommendations from LeDeR reviews identify shortfalls in practice.

Encourage and promote a culture that values openness, honesty, rigour, and challenge.

Maintain their knowledge and expertise on local and national policy and demonstrate personal commitment to continuous self-development and implementation of local service improvement actions.

Maintain high standards of documentation and adhere to the national LeDeR programme requirements.

Identify and address health inequalities for individuals with a learning disability and autistic people.

Have the ability to convey and present complex, sensitive and possibly contentious information to a range of audiences - this information includes, but is not limited to, feedback to and from families of deceased clients as well as learning and feedback from reviews which may challenge system partners and local groups.

Ensure complex reports are delivered on time, to high quality standards, prioritising as required.

Provide specialist advice and guidance across the system.