Physical Health Assistant Practitioner

2 weeks ago

Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust Full time

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust.

We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.


Nearly 3,200 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 900+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.

We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we'd love you to join us

***JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

YOUR APPLICATION

Job overview:

Do you have a desire to raise the profile of physical health within mental health services. Do you believe in the practice of holistic care and do you want to make a difference to our service users? If your answer is yes then we want to hear from you

Main duties of the job:

  • To be responsible for actively participating as a key member of the clinical team for providing quality services for people experiencing first episode psychosis under the supervision of registered professionals.
  • To work alongside front line staff to embed physical healthcare.
  • To work in bespoke and creative ways to support holistic physical health care planning, including supporting the provision of physical health screening and intervention service for service users with severe mental illness needs as described in the Five Year Forward View and NHS Long Term Plan.

Working for our organisation:


Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other.

In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.


Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

**Benefits included with this role are: - **- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa
- based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service

  • NHS discounts and many more.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:
To plan and implement effective physical health clinics for service users experiencing first episode psychosis, making accurate recordings and
sharing outcomes.

To provide interventions, including phlebotomy and sign posting to support service users to improve their physical health outcomes.

To work with MDT colleagues to promote physical health and collaborate
with case managers in relation to physical health outcomes within care and
treatment planning.

Take part in any required training in order to maintain skills necessary to undertake physical health checks.

Contributing to the wider team to support the promotion of positive lifestyle choices, physical health and wellbeing.

Ensure accurate records are kept in relation to physical health checks and
interventions as well as leading on reporting outcomes.


Be involved in updating audits, policies and procedures to support the development and effectiveness of our physical health interventions and ensure they reflect current practices and guidelines.

To implement procedures related to stock control, taking responsibility for
checking adequate equipment available for effective functioning of a clinic.

To take responsibility for instigating calibration of equipment and reporting
faulty equipment as required.

With support from team clinical nurse specialists, lead on chairing the team's bi-month

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