Community Physical Health Nurse

The role will require the screening, assessment, brief intervention and sign posting for patients within Primary Care, to promote their physical health and well being. The role will require the co-ordination of physical health clinics, outreach appointments and collaboration with existing team members and Primary Care colleagues to ensure all clients receive an annual health screening and further contacts around health promotion.

The position will also include liaison with the appropriate care team involved in the patients within Primary Care where required, to provide seamless all-round care for the client. This role will provide support around performance monitoring and Quality across the community services and Primary Care where the Physical Health Team is involved, providing performance data, audits and action planning.

The Community Physical Health team will work across St Helens and will be required to travel between various sites.

The role will require the screening, assessment, brief intervention and sign posting for patients within both Secondary Community Mental Health Teams and within Primary Care, to promote

their physical health and well being. The role will require the co-ordination of physical health clinics, outreach appointments and collaboration with existing team members and Primary

Care colleagues to ensure all clients receive an annual health screening and further contacts around health promotion.

The position will also include liaison with the appropriate care team

involved in the patients care both within Secondary and Primary Care where required as well as Primary Care Liaison leads, to provide seamless all-round care for the client. This role will

also provide support around performance monitoring and Quality across the community services and Primary Care where the Physical Health Team is involved providing performance data, audits and action planning.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Julie Pinder Job title: Community Physical Health Team Leader Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07469918270

Matthew Marks

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