Job responsibilities
Are you a Physical Health Nurse looking for a new opportunity to work in an organisation that will help you to develop and achieve your goals to become the best you can be? If so, you're in luck. Join our team in Brighton & Hove Clinic.
Working 37.5 hours per week as an experienced Nurse from the NHS or private sector, you'll join the team at Brighton & Hove as a Physical Health Nurse working 9am-5pm Monday to Friday where you will change lives for the better.
Your career at Elysium will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills and make a real difference for some of the most vulnerable people in society.
Working alongside the individual and their families, the MDT will collaboratively create care plans and risk assessments. You will empower individuals to manage and improve their health through their treatment within the community. It’s a career that you can take pride in and enjoy. It’s what delivering great healthcare should feel like.
What you will be doing:
- Facilitating physical healthcare plans/ treatments to patient’s, in order to maintain their optimum level of physical well-being
- Leading the development and review of all care plans for physical health, to ensure that patient’s physical health needs have clear interventions, which are being met
- Carrying out routine and ad-hoc PCR swabs for patients
- Facilitating/support staff to ensure that routine and ad hoc blood tests are carried out as prescribed and the results recorded appropriately and followed up where appropriate with the medical team
- Ensuring that all patients have their ECG’s as prescribed by the Consultant and that results are communicated to the clinical team and evidence is documented on Care notes
- Educating staff in relation to the use of Naso-gastric tube feeding ensuring that staff are adhering to the requirements outlined in their prescriptions from the dietitian and that care plans are updated to reflect the current prescription
- Attend ICR meetings as required and to contribute to the development and review of physical healthcare plans
- Undertaking Audits
- Facilitating educational workshop/teaching sessions on aspects of physical care healthcare best practice treatments
To be successful in this role, you’ll need:
- To hold a full NMC registration in general nursing (RGN)
- A minimum of 3 years post registration experience
- To evidence of a Valid NMC registration
- Experience in NG Feeding & Phlebotomy
- Experience of training others
- A commitment to high-quality care and to values and evidence-based practice
- An understanding of eating disorders and mental health
- Experience of working with young people is desirable
What you will get:
- Annual salary of £41,107
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – plus your birthday off!
- Free meals
- Wellbeing support and activities
- Career development and training
- Pension contribution
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity Package
- Flexible working opportunities
There are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, and much more.
About your next employer: You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.
