Physical Health Care Practitioner

Job summary

As part of our strategic vision for improved physical health monitoring, care delivery and parity of esteem between physical and mental health; you will facilitate and support the management of the physical health needs of patients during their treatment and care within CYP services.

You will work within CYP Urgent Care Services as part of an MDT of people managing our riskiest children and young people who are at risk of admission to hospital. Supporting the teams across the working week- Monday- Friday 9am-5pm, your base is negotiable and we do support some flexible working to enable a good work-life balance.

Main duties of the job

Devise, deliver and evaluate care relating to the physical health needs of patients via assessment (including risk), care plans, care pathways and service developments.

Provide clinical leadership and work in partnership with patients, their carers and internal/external colleagues within the multi disciplinary (MDT) in the delivery of high quality, evidence based physical health care.

Through education and training, support the development and drive improvements in physical health clinical practice skills with colleagues in local settings.

Through liaison, joint working, training and education ensure that the clinical practice is in line with trust policy ensuring the trust objectives for improving physical heatlh care is achieved for our service users.

To support the integration between CCETT, EDS and MHLS by sitting across all teams to ensure all patients have access to physical health support.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy

Competitive annual leave allowance

Car leasing scheme

NHS pension scheme

Free eye tests

Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme

Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Health Practitioner - Registered Nurse (Adult, Child, Learning Disabilities and / or Mental Health); Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist
• Where Learning Disabilities or Mental Health, a relevant qualification in physical healthcare or ability to evidence up-to-date knowledge and experience of working with physical healthcare needs in a mental health or learning disabilities setting
• Teaching qualification (ENB 998 or equivalent)
• Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

• Experience of mental health or learning disabilities within a health or care setting

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience of a work environment associated with challenging and complex situations
• Experience of communicating with a wide range of service users (patients), public, partners and staff
• Experience of managing the care of patients with complex physical healthcare needs
• 2 years post registration experience

Skills

Essential

• Highly motivated and able to engage with service users (patients) and carers to improve outcomes
• Good interpersonal and assessment skills
• Ability to work independently and collectively
• Ability to negotiate priority and manage own workload
• Ability to implement, monitor and review care pathways
• Ability to maintain up-to-date service user records and files as appropriate
• Ability to work independently within Health and Safety guidelines
• Ability to engage and work in partnership with other professionals, agencies and organisations.??Ability to contribute to developing mental health and learning disabilities services
• Ability to undertake audit
• Ability to motivate and support others
• Ability to resolve conflict
• Ability to incorporate learning into practice
• Ability to work in a non-oppressive way with service users (patients), carers and colleagues
• Ability to manage and provide supervision to junior staff

Desirable

• Supervision training