Physical Health Support Worker

6 months ago


Christchurch, United Kingdom Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Christchurch and Southbourne CMHT have an are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and creative Physical Health Support Worker to work within the locality. You will work closely with the local GP surgeries, and be embedded within these, supporting individuals with a serious mental illness with access to physical health monitoring.

The role will provide excellent opportunities for effective partnership working with a range of organisations and will be supported by senior healthcare professionals from both primary and secondary services to enhance the existing provision by providing comprehensive physical health assessments, signpost individuals to services to improve their physical health and set goals with individuals to help improve their physical health.

This will be a permanent post of 30 hours per week between 0900-1700, working from the GP surgeries covering Christchurch PCN.

To coordinate and manage comprehensive physical health assessments for designated individuals on the GP practice SMI register. Working closely with physical health leads in community mental health team(s) (CMHT) and primary care (PC) services to support individuals with mental conditions to improve their physical health.

Work with clinicians and attend relevant clinical meetings across primary and secondary care to ensure individuals are referred, signposted and receive appropriate interventions and follow up care as per the pathway.

To work with individuals and relevant staff through the process to develop physical health care goals and plans to promote and encourage self-management of physical health. Develop and promote individuals to develop supportive relationships with key partner organisations and communities to support sustainability.

Put individuals needs at the heart of the job, keeping people safe, contributing to their care and responding compassionately to suffering. Communicate with them in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture.

Provide input to physical health meetings, in order to continue to support service improvement in promoting positive physical health with our service users and staff. Ensure that individuals experience of physical health is shared and fed into service improvement as part of coproduction process.

Accurately input and ensure records maintained in accordance with professional and organisation standards(RiO& SystmOne)

At Dorset HealthCare we’re on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We’re a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here - it’s one of the reasons the CQC rated us ‘outstanding’ in 2019. It’s also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you’re looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.

Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.

Working with us you’ll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don’t know. And you’ll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.



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