Learning Disability Nurse at Powys Teaching Health Board

The job at Powys Teaching Health Board

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 a health board such as Powys Teaching Health Board, that work means a caseload that can span the whole pathway — acute wards, outpatient clinics and community teams — without changing employer, because the board is responsible for all NHS care in its area. Boards often run broad rotations across acute and community services, and specialising later rarely means leaving the organisation. 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 Powys Teaching Health Board pays band 5 exactly what every other NHS employer in Wales pays it: £32,557 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.

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