Physical Health Assistant Practitioner

6 months ago


King's Lynn, United Kingdom Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust are on an improvement journey with a focused sense of direction. This is where you come in We have an exciting opportunity for a 6 month secondment for a Physical Health Assistant Practitioner to join our Samphire Ward team to support the assessment and monitoring of the physical health of people with Severe Mental Illness in accordance with NICE guidelines.

Samphire Ward is a 16-bed acute admission ward housed in a purpose-built facility built in consultation with both staff and service users.

You will be responsible for providing and documenting comprehensive physical health assessments, signposting individuals to services to improve their physical health and set goals with individuals to help improve their physical health. This is because it is well recognised that people with SMI have a lower life expectancy than those in the general population, often due to avoidable physical health conditions.

You will be working both autonomously as well as part of the wider Samphire Ward team.

As well as measuring blood pressure and pulse, this will also include more advanced assessment skills and interventions including phlebotomy electrocardiograms and smoking cessation

If you have a background of working in physical health, hold a foundation degree or equivalent, are passionate about supporting individuals with severe mental illness and understand the importance of the physical health of those with SMI then this could be the position for you.

The position is with an opportunity for clinical growth and development and our team are committed to support you to achieve your potential in this role. You will also be supported and guided by the Trusts Physical Health Team.

For internal applicants we can offer fixed term roles as secondments with your current managers approval. Please advise your recruitment officer if you would like to be considered for this role on a secondment basis.

Want to know more? Have any questions? Please do contact us.

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

**Benefits included with this role are**:
- NHS pension

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.

NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff. There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY



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