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Learning Disability Nurse at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Working as a learning disability nurse at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London means an acute hospital caseload — inpatients on the wards, emergency and critical care, theatres and diagnostics, and hospital outpatient clinics, with the working day shaped by admissions, ward rounds and discharge planning. Band 5 starts at £32,073 on the England 2026/27 scale. No workforce or staff survey figures for this organisation are in the open dataset yet, so this page sets out the caseload, the national pay ladder and where the local courses are, and states nothing it cannot source.

Learning Disability NurseBand 5 entryEngland
Not published Learning Disability Nurses employed here Organisation-level workforce data is not in the open dataset yet
£32,073 Band 5 starting salary England, 2026/27 scale
Not published Median pay, all occupations Not published in the open data
Not published Staff survey response rate Not in the open dataset for this organisation

The job at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Learning disability nurses work to improve or maintain a person's physical and mental health, reduce barriers to independent living, and support people to lead fulfilling lives, acting as educators, advocates and care coordinators. They work alongside GPs, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, teachers, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and physiotherapists. Learning disability nurses practise in residential and nursing homes, people's own homes, schools, specialist units such as prisons, GP practices and hospitals. People with learning disabilities and their families, across the lifespan and across health, social care and education settings.

At an acute trust such as Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, that work means an acute hospital caseload — inpatients on the wards, emergency and critical care, theatres and diagnostics, and hospital outpatient clinics, with the working day shaped by admissions, ward rounds and discharge planning. Newly qualified posts here are usually rotational: four to six months at a time in a different clinical area, which is how you find out what you want to specialise in before you commit. Across the profession as a whole, learning disability nurses work in settings including residential and nursing homes, people's own homes, schools, specialist units, including prisons and GP practices — an organisation of this type will run some of those services and not others, which is why two posts with the same job title in the same city can be very different jobs.

Pay is not an employer decision. Agenda for Change is negotiated nationally and set separately in each of the four nations, so Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust pays band 5 exactly what every other NHS employer in England pays it: £32,073 at the bottom of the band on the 2026/27 scale. What genuinely differs between two employers is the caseload, how rotations are structured, how much protected time you get for supervision and continuing professional development, how much band 6 progression is built into the establishment, and how far you travel between sites. Those are the questions worth asking at interview.

This page states no figure specific to Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust because none is published in the open data. When the workforce and staff survey feeds include this organisation, the establishment size, the response rate and the theme scores will appear above.

Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Organisation type
Acute trust
Based in
London
Region
London
Nation
England
Regulator
NMC registration required
Usual starting band
Band 5

What you would be paid, band by band

England Agenda for Change rates, 2026/27 — the same at every NHS employer in the nation.

Agenda for Change pay for learning disability nurses in England
Band Starting Point 2 Point 3 Top of band
Band 4 £28,392£31,157 £31,157
Band 5 Entry level £32,073£34,592£39,043 £39,043
Band 6 £39,959£42,170£48,117 £48,117
Band 7 £49,387£51,932£56,515 £56,515
Band 8a £57,528£60,417£64,750 £64,750
£28,392 Band 4 · Newly qualified First post after registration, for roles that start at band 4 (e.g. nursing associates).
£32,073 Band 5 · Newly qualified First post after registration, usually rotational.
£39,959 Band 6 · Specialist Typically two to four years in; a defined clinical specialty.
£49,387 Band 7 · Advanced or team lead Clinical leadership, complex caseload, supervision.
£57,528 Band 8a · Consultant or service lead Service-wide responsibility or consultant practice.

Learning Disability Nurse pay in detail · The whole England scale · Band 5 learning disability nurses

Where to train for this job near London

No university in London is recorded in the dataset as running an approved course for learning disability nurses, so students placed here are likely to travel in from further afield. There are 3 approved courses in the UK as a whole.

Every approved learning disability nurse course in the UK

Learning Disability Nurses at other organisations in London

Same registration, same bands, different caseload — the organisation type is the variable, and the size of the establishment tells you how many colleagues and how many rotation slots sit behind the job title.

Published establishments for learning disability nurses at NHS organisations in London
Organisation Type Based in Full-time equivalent
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust Acute trust Romford
Barts Health NHS Trust Acute trust London
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Mental health trust London
Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust Community trust London
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Acute trust London
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust Acute trust Thornton Heath
East London NHS Foundation Trust Mental health trust London
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust Acute trust Carshalton
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust Specialist trust London
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust This page Acute trust London
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Acute trust London
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Acute trust London
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Acute trust London

A blank establishment figure means the organisation did not return one for this profession, not that it employs nobody. Only organisations whose type runs this service are listed.

Other nursing roles at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Where this page’s data comes from

The figures on this page are national or regional. No workforce, staff survey or inspection data for this organisation is in the open dataset yet.