The post holder will be a registered nurse who has a significant level of knowledge, extended levels of competence, skills and experience of working with patients with mental and physical health needs in both community and inpatient settings.
The post holder will be a motivated and self-starting individual, have sound knowledge of using information technology inclusive of RiO and MS Excel.
They will be enthusiastic and knowledgeable about improving the physical healthcare of individuals with a mental illness and/or learning disability. The post holder will be required to work across Gloucestershire.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Act as an expert resource and provide professional expertise in Physical Health, Health Promotion, and well-being for MH/LD patients and staff trust-wide.
2. Support the Heads of Profession in Mental and Physical Health with the parity of esteem agenda.
3. Be a visible, accessible, and professional presence for staff, working alongside them and in direct clinical contact with patients/clients to ensure their physical health and wellbeing needs are fully assessed and understood.
4. Undertake specialist assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of physical healthcare for service users Trust-wide as needed.
5. Optimise service users’ potential to participate in promoting and maintaining good physical health.
6. Demonstrate a high skill base and knowledge of Physical Health needs and communicate how to apply theory into practice, developing specialised programmes.
7. Facilitate physical health training days.
8. Negotiate and develop individual highly complex care programmes in accordance with service users using a high degree of diplomacy and motivational skills.
9. Attend Multidisciplinary team meetings and case conferences as required.
10. Collect and collate data/information effectively for audit, research, and service performance.
11. Liaise with and offer specialist assessment and advice to other clinicians and professions as a senior clinician.
12. Be accountable for their own professional actions as a lead specialist.
13. Provide support with care plans and attend physical health appointments as required.
14. Liaise with other agencies to provide specialist support as required.
15. Promote the appropriate use of cardiovascular screening and interventions (based upon the LESTER tool) within clinical areas.
16. Deliver evidence-based physical health care assessments and interventions such as venepuncture, weight management, and healthy lifestyle advice in line with the LESTER tool and other nationally recognised best practice guidelines.
17. Share best practices and educate staff across the Trust regarding physical care initiatives.
We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity, and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey, just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
1. 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
2. 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
3. 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisation's priority;
4. 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative.
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.
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