B6: Clinical Nurse Practitioner - Intensive Support Team (Shropshire)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a highly motivated Clinical Nurse Practitioner to join the Intensive Support Team in Shropshire. You will work with people with learning disabilities who may present with complex challenging behaviours and/or mental health needs, providing specialist and intensive multi-disciplinary support in the community. The position requires excellent communication skills and a commitment to person-centred care, focusing on achieving quality of life outcomes. You will contribute to developing high-quality local services and provide person-centred assessment and clinical interventions.
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification - RNLD or suitably experienced nurse
- Current professional registration with the NMC
- Evidence of continuing professional development and maintenance of portfolio
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in supervision or mentoring.
- Evidence of relevant training or currently undertaking e.g. Positive Behaviour Support, Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Post registration experience in working with people with Learning Disabilities with complex health care needs e.g. Behaviour that Challenges, Mental Health needs
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience of managing and prioritising a caseload
- Experience of providing clinical supervision for others
- Experience of MDT clinical formulation, to prescribe and implement person centred recommendations
- Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
- Knowledge of current trends and legislation impacting on services provided to people with a learning disability
- Knowledge of the Transforming Care agenda and the DSR, C(E)TR and LAEP processes
- Qualifications & Training
- Professional qualification - RNLD or suitably experienced nurse
- Current professional registration with the NMC
- Evidence of continuing professional development and maintenance of portfolio
- Qualification in supervision or mentoring.
- Evidence of relevant training or currently undertaking e.g. Positive Behaviour Support, Applied Behaviour Analysis
- Post registration experience in working with people with Learning Disabilities with complex health care needs e.g. Behaviour that Challenges, Mental Health needs
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience of managing and prioritising a caseload
- Experience of providing clinical supervision for others
- Experience of MDT clinical formulation, to prescribe and implement person centred recommendations
- Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
- Knowledge of current trends and legislation impacting on services provided to people with a learning disability
- Knowledge of the Transforming Care agenda and the DSR, C(E)TR and LAEP processes
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
B6: Clinical Nurse Practitioner - Intensive Support Team (Shropshire)
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
We are seeking a highly motivated and dedicated Clinical Nurse Practitioner to join our Shrewsbury based Intensive Support Team in Shropshire. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced RNLD or suitably experienced nurse.The role requires a professional who is enthusiastic, dynamic and able to demonstrate excellent inter-personal communication skills and a determined commitment to person-centred, multi-disciplinary working to achieve quality of life outcomes. This post offers the opportunity to work in a highly focused, intensive, and supportive way with people with learning disabilities who may present with complex challenging behaviours and/or mental health needs.
Main duties of the job
The aim of the Intensive Support Team (IST) is to provide specialist and intensive multi-disciplinary support in the community for people who have learning disabilities; there is a core functionality role within the team in addition to clinicians' individual specialist roles. Experience of working with people with a learning disability is essential. You will also preferably have experience of working with people who have complex needs, for example those associated with mental and physical ill health, autism
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