The Physical Health Monitoring and Improvement Team is looking for a qualified Nursing Associate to cover maternity leave. You will join our team to support the running of our various community clinics across the city of Leeds. Within this role, you will be supporting service users with a serious mental illness (SMI), specifically the monitoring and improvement of their physical health.
This involves:
1. Dispensing and administering prescribed medication in both clinic and home settings.
2. Performing physical health observations including blood taking, ECG, blood pressure monitoring, BMI calculations, and asking questions relating to service users’ lifestyle (e.g., smoking status and diet).
3. Participating in the planning and running of clinics with planned appointment times for service users to attend.
4. Providing healthy living advice to service users and making referrals to teams within LYPFT and other organisations to assist service users in improving physical health and wellbeing.
5. Supporting and escalating service users who present with both physical ill health and deterioration in mental health symptoms.
6. Highlighting any changes in mental health and physical health presentation to relevant professionals (e.g., Care Coordinator, CRISS).
7. Setting up and preparing clinics on a daily basis.
The Physical Health Monitoring and Improvement Team currently delivers three separate clinics:
1. Clozapine Clinic – Blood monitoring, physical health checks, medication dispensing.
2. Physical Health Checks – For service users on high dose antipsychotics or other medications requiring monitoring.
3. Depot Clinic – Patients attend clinic for the administration of their depot medication.
In addition to static clinics, we also offer the above services as home visits for those patients unable to attend clinic sites.
Additional responsibilities include:
1. Ensuring service users’ appointments are booked and communicated to them.
2. Working towards delivering effective supervision of junior members of staff and assisting with improving practice within the service.
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support, and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes.
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
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