Learning Disability Nurses
Reference: 25-26308
Date response sent: 17/10/2025
Details of enquiry
- How many Learning Disability nurses are employed within the Trust?
- Please answer this question for the following years: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 (for the current year please provide the most up to date number).
- If information is available, how many of these work in hospital settings?
- What is your vacancy rate for learning disability nurses? Please answer for the following years: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- If you cannot answer the above question please provide how many vacancies you currently have for Learning Disability nurses?
Response sent
- How many Learning Disability nurses are employed within the Trust?
The Trust employs two members of staff who are Learning Disabilities nurses. Neither are in direct clinical roles.
Our work to help children and young people with learning disabilities and additional psychological or mental health difficulties via three Autism & Learning Disabilities related services:
- psychological-therapies-for-autistic-and-learning-disabled-children-and-young-people/
- autism-assessment-service/
- camden-mosaic/
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a small specialist NHS mental health trust with a focus on training and education, as well as providing a range of mental health services and therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We provide outpatient, and mainly psychological services via talking therapies, and do not provide acute services, nor inpatient patient services, nor detention facilities, and do not have an A&E department
- Please answer this question for the following years: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 (for the current year please provide the most up to date number).
| Year | No of Learning Disability Nurses employed by TPNHSFT |
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 |
- If information is available, how many of these work in hospital settings?
Not applicable. We provide outpatient clinics and do not provide hospital services.
- What is your vacancy rate for learning disability nurses? Please answer for the following years: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Not applicable. We do not have any specific Learning Disabilities nursing roles currently within our structure.. See the explanatory notes within our response to Question 2 above
- If you cannot answer the above question please provide how many vacancies you currently have for Learning Disability nurses?
Not applicable. See our response to Question 4 above.