Job summary
We are looking for a full-time Physical Health Practitioner to join our Healthcare team and provide a full range of healthcare to vulnerable children and young people resident in the home. The children and young people are between the ages of 10 and 18 and have often experienced adverse childhood events and trauma. Their everyday care is met by county council care staff and our healthcare team enhances this care by providing multi-disciplinary support for healthcare needs, including, physical health, mental health, and psychological/emotional well-being. The Physical Health practitioner will be responsible for monitoring the physical health needs of the children and young people, working in partnership with the health team, care staff and the local GP practice. They will lead on the health screening of young people on admission, ensuring all physical health needs inform each child's care plan.
The post holder will deliver training/workshops on health issues to children and young people in partnership with the unit's school and to staff on health needs/treatment as appropriate. They will work in partnership with the GP practice to coordinate the vaccination program and any prescription needs. They will also take a lead in supporting any drug and alcohol related difficulties.
The core hours are 9.00-17.00pm Monday-Friday with flexibility to support after school access to healthcare up to 21.00pm with some on-call up to midday at weekends for health screening for admissions.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high standard of physical healthcare to children and young people, within an MDT environment, including health screening, health promotion and education, sexual health, coordinate programme of immunisation and vaccination and support with identified substance misuse as appropriate.
The post holder will be responsible for conducting regular health checks for children and young people resident in the unit, as well as undertaking physical observations and procedures as required. In addition the postholder will provide sessions for long-term conditions such as asthma and diabetes, coordinate secondary health needs and facilitate the GP clinics.
The post holder will provide professional advice and support to members of the multi-disciplinary team and work flexibly between 9am and 9pm as required, including some on-call duties at weekends and bank holidays. The post holder will deliver group work and individual care packages to children and young people resident in the LSU with physical health and/or substance misuse problems.
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 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, 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, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. 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 are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Deliver high-quality, up to date, child and young person centred care through assessment, diagnosing, planning, implementation and evaluation of the service users physical health needs, as part of a holistic care approach.
Have expert knowledge and experience of carrying out assessment of physical health parameters with the ability to act in a timely manner when finding are outside of the normal range.
Initiate physical health care plans/care pathways which monitor and review and meet the needs of the person's physical health.
Liaise effectively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to enable a holistic approach.
Have sound knowledge and understanding in advances in clinical theory/practice in relation to general medicine and mental health, and act as a catalyst for innovation.
Promote and support the children/young people, families/carers and colleagues involvement in the clinical decision making process, working with the MDT in times of distress and uncertainty.
Ensure a multi-professional/agency approach is maintained, valuing the interface of professional roles and responsibilities.
Facilitate education and choice for healthy living, using a health promotion and health protection approach, including sexual health.
Support and facilitate an immunisation/vaccination programme in line with best practice guidance with external health care providers.
Support and facilitate external health providers to action mandatory reviews for long-term conditions such asthma and diabetes
Work with the visiting GP/ GP Nurse/ Dental, optician, Sexual Health Services and community Immunisation Teams to provide an effective primary care service.
Ensure that families/carers are included in the planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
Work collaboratively, and promote effective working relationships, with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective clinical decision-making, internally and with external agencies.
Support and educate children and young people with substance misuse issues.
Provision of LSU staff training on a range of identified health related issues
To work flexibly between 9am and 9pm, including some on-call duties bank holidays and weekends.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Deliver high-quality, up to date, child and young person centred care through assessment, diagnosing, planning, implementation and evaluation of the service users physical health needs, as part of a holistic care approach.
Have expert knowledge and experience of carrying out assessment of physical health parameters with the ability to act in a timely manner when finding are outside of the normal range.
Initiate physical health care plans/care pathways which monitor and review and meet the needs of the person's physical health.
Liaise effectively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to enable a holistic approach.
Have sound knowledge and understanding in advances in clinical theory/practice in relation to general medicine and mental health, and act as a catalyst for innovation.
Promote and support the children/young people, families/carers and colleagues involvement in the clinical decision making process, working with the MDT in times of distress and uncertainty.
Ensure a multi-professional/agency approach is maintained, valuing the interface of professional roles and responsibilities.
Facilitate education and choice for healthy living, using a health promotion and health protection approach, including sexual health.
Support and facilitate an immunisation/vaccination programme in line with best practice guidance with external health care providers.
Support and facilitate external health providers to action mandatory reviews for long-term conditions such asthma and diabetes
Work with the visiting GP/ GP Nurse/ Dental, optician, Sexual Health Services and community Immunisation Teams to provide an effective primary care service.
Ensure that families/carers are included in the planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
Work collaboratively, and promote effective working relationships, with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective clinical decision-making, internally and with external agencies.
Support and educate children and young people with substance misuse issues.
Provision of LSU staff training on a range of identified health related issues
To work flexibly between 9am and 9pm, including some on-call duties bank holidays and weekends.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oRegistered Health Practitioner - Registered Nurse (Adult, Child, Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, substance misuse)
- Where Learning Disabilities, substance misuse 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
- Management training
- ENB998 / FliPS or equivalent
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 and or substance misuse.
Desirable
- Experience of working with children and young people.
- Experience of mental health or learning disabilities within a health or care setting
- Experience of working in Primary care settings
- Relevant experience of working with people with drug and alcohol misuse.
Skills
Essential
- Good interpersonal and assessment skills.
- Ability to negotiate priority and manage own workload.
- Ability to implement, monitor and review care pathways
- Highly motivated and able to engage with service users (patients) and carers to improve outcomes.
- Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues anxieties.
- Ability to maintain up-to-date service user records and files as appropriate.
- Ability to engage and work in partnership with other professionals, agencies and organisations.
- Ability to manage and provide supervision to junior staff
- Understanding and appreciation of the value of diversity.
- Commitment to work in an anti-discriminatory and non-oppressive way.
- IT literate.
- Flexible in work approach to meet the developing needs of the service.
- Excellent time management skills, organisational skills, ability to work under pressure and to manage own and other workloads efficiently.
- Willingness to undertake all mandatory training.
- Understanding of and commitment to the process of supervision.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oRegistered Health Practitioner - Registered Nurse (Adult, Child, Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, substance misuse)
- Where Learning Disabilities, substance misuse 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
- Management training
- ENB998 / FliPS or equivalent
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 and or substance misuse.
Desirable
- Experience of working with children and young people.
- Experience of mental health or learning disabilities within a health or care setting
- Experience of working in Primary care settings
- Relevant experience of working with people with drug and alcohol misuse.
Skills
Essential
- Good interpersonal and assessment skills.
- Ability to negotiate priority and manage own workload.
- Ability to implement, monitor and review care pathways
- Highly motivated and able to engage with service users (patients) and carers to improve outcomes.
- Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues anxieties.
- Ability to maintain up-to-date service user records and files as appropriate.
- Ability to engage and work in partnership with other professionals, agencies and organisations.
- Ability to manage and provide supervision to junior staff
- Understanding and appreciation of the value of diversity.
- Commitment to work in an anti-discriminatory and non-oppressive way.
- IT literate.
- Flexible in work approach to meet the developing needs of the service.
- Excellent time management skills, organisational skills, ability to work under pressure and to manage own and other workloads efficiently.
- Willingness to undertake all mandatory training.
- Understanding of and commitment to the process of supervision.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
