Learning disability nurse apprenticeship

[delilabell]

I am looking at ing this but need a bit of advice please
Does anyone have any experience? Is it a general nursing apprenticeship or is it a specialist nursing apprenticeship that I'd need to do?
Also is anyone a learning disability nurse? Is there plenty of jobs? Or is it a bit to niche?
Thank you everyone

I think you will qualify with a degree in learning disability nursing. Loads of jobs in northeast for ld nurses and can work into mh fields too.

Thank you so much for replying. Do you know if the apprenticeship is purely in learning disability nursing or "general" nursing too. I'm not finding tje website very clear! :-)

I would think “general” nursing would come under the Adult Nurse apprenticeship, assuming there is one. If not then there must be a shortage of LD nurses.

Look at the NHS careers website.
They are rarely advertised, you may have to gain similar experience in a related role first

Hi, I'm a 3rd year ld student nurse. There are jobs out there, we usually have around 3 or 4 job offers by tue time we graduate, some private sector some nhs. Usually jobs advertised for mental health nurses will take on ld nurses too, and in our trust we can work on the wards in the hospital as well. There aren't as many jobs as in other fields but we do tend to progress bands much quicker. I'm current on placement in positive behaviour support team, but have done inpatients, forensics, schools, dementia wards and community. Happy to answer any questions.

I thought LD nursing was being phased out and being included more in general training. However I have a newly qualified colleague who is dual paediatric/ LD trained.

No, it's not being phased out. The NHS learning bursary fund is offering more money to students as an incentive to choose learning disability nursing.

Thanks everyone, the only way I could afford to do this is an apprenticeship but the website us all a bit vague...I'm going to try to find a way to contact someone on the nhs careers website

The NHS needs more LD nurses!

LD nursing is not being phased out, but with universities closing their LD nursing programmes due to lack of numbers it can seem that way.