Want to make your life about helping people with learning disabilities in Sheffield to live their best lives? We are looking for great, caring people to join our new Specialist Community Learning Disability Service.
Find out more about the roles available and the new service on this page.
We are creating one integrated specialist learning disability service to offer better, more streamlined and timely support to people with learning disabilities in Sheffield, replacing three teams which were previously running separately.
The new Specialist Community Learning Disabilities service (SCLD) will offer both standard and enhanced pathways which will be provided in a community setting, close to people’s homes.
The standard offer includes core aspects of care which support day to day living for people with learning disabilities.
The enhanced pathway will provide a high priority response to cases that require more intensive support, with the aim of avoiding hospital admissions for people with learning disabilities.
Access to the service is being streamlined, with one entry route for every referral or query. Anybody can complete a referral, either by filling in a form or by calling the service. These referrals will be seen within the daily central hub, where a multidisciplinary team will assess and allocate these onto the most appropriate care pathway.
The service will have bases at both Grenoside Grange and Firshill Rise.
The service’s capacity will be constantly checked to make sure that we are always able to respond to offer support in a timely way to people.
The SCLD will reduce waiting times, provide access based on a person’s specific needs, and improve contact between a named person at the service, service users and their families or carers.
To achieve this new model, we will be increasing the number of staff in every discipline. We will also be offering development opportunities to current staff members to help them be fully equipped to provide the best care possible.
We have put this model together in coproduction with people with lived experience of using learning disability services, carers, SHSC staff and wider NHS and social care experts.
We plan to start working in these ways from this winter, with these being fully up and running by mid-2025.
This is a varied role where you will use all your skills and can explore the specialisms that interest you. You will be an advocate for some of the most vulnerable people in our society. Work side by side with our patients and their families and carers to enrich their lives.
In this new, cutting edge service we are using the most specialist, evidence-based and person-centred model available. As a large team of a range of professions we work together, learn from each other and combine our expertise. We assess cases and make sure our patients get the tailored and specific support that will help them the most.
Closing: Wednesday 27 November
This is a varied role where you will work side by side with our patients and their families, carers and Sheffield’s great services to enrich their lives. You will have development opportunities tailored to you, and will be a central part of helping the service to offer the best support to those we care for.
In this new, cutting edge service we are using the most specialist, evidence-based and person-centred model available. As a large team of a range of professions we work together, learn from each other and combine our expertise. We assess cases and make sure our patients get the tailored and specific support that will help them the most.
The link to this job description will be posted here shortly.
You will be at the forefront of developing this role in learning disability services, helping to shape the role to make it the most impactful it can be for the people we care for. In this fast-paced, varied role you will work as an equal partner in our cutting edge service where we use the most specialist, evidence-based and person-centred model available.
As a large team of a range of professions we work together, learn from each other and combine our expertise. We assess cases and make sure our patients get the tailored and specific support that will help them the most.
The link to this job description will be posted here shortly.
No day will be the same as you offer specialist assessments and interventions to our patients. You will be an advocate for them and work to boost their independence alongside their families, carers and Sheffield’s great services. You will be learning every day and developing in a way which is tailored to you, in a team which values and nurtures our occupational therapists and allied health professionals.
In this new, cutting edge service we are using the most specialist, evidence-based and person-centred model available. As a large team of a range of professions we work together, learn from each other and combine our expertise. We assess cases and make sure our patients get the tailored and specific support that will help them the most.
The link to this job description will be posted here shortly.
You will have a deep involvement with the people we support, using innovative techniques and a diverse range of skills to have a long term, meaningful impact on their lives.
As a leader working alongside a range of professions and experts in our team, we make sure our patients get the tailored and specific support that will help them the most.
Closing: Friday 6 December
You will draw on your varied skillset and creative techniques to have a long term, meaningful impact.
You will have a deep involvement with the people we support, working together with a range of professions and experts in our team to make sure our patients get the tailored and specific support that will help them the most.
The link to this job description will be posted here shortly.
Would you like to use your passion and energy to make a difference to the lives of vulnerable people in our city?
As a housekeeper in our Community Learning Disability Service, will be providing the positive, supportive and respectful environment that helps us all to work alongside our patients to help them live their best lives.
The link to this job description will be posted here shortly.
You will be using your varied skillset in different ways everyday to make a huge difference to the people we support. Help our patients with communication and Dysphagia while also running autism assessments, all within a supportive and tight-knit unit of a team.
In this new, cutting edge service we are using the most specialist, evidence-based and person-centred model available. As a large team of a range of professions we work together, learn from each other and combine our expertise. We assess cases and make sure our patients get the tailored and specific support that will help them the most.
The link to this job description will be posted here shortly.
You will tailor plans and advice to offer the best support for the people we care for. You will be acting in the best interests of our patients based on holistic assessments that will make a real difference.
You will be alongside our speech and language therapists and a range of other professionals as we work together, learn from each other and combine our expertise in this cutting edge new service.
The link to this job description will be posted here shortly.
You will play a vital part of the care we provide to our patients, as the welcoming face of our new cutting edge service. You can have varied, responsive and detailed conversations, to offer the best support to those we care for.
Working alongside range of professions, we work together, learn from each other and combine our expertise to tailor our support and work to make a real difference.
The link to this job description will be posted here shortly.
If you would like to discuss any of these roles, we would love to hear from you. Please get in touch for an informal discussion with one of the service leadership team:
Mel Larder-Lee
General manager
melanie.larderlee@shsc.nhs.uk
Stella Davis
Service manager
stella.davis@shsc.nhs.uk