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Job overview

The Physical Health Monitoring and Improvement Team is looking for a qualified Nursing Associate to join the team and support the running of our various community clinics across the city of Leeds. Within this role you will be supporting service users with a serious mental illness (SMI), specifically the monitoring and improvement of their physical health.

This involves dispensing and administering prescribed medication in both clinic and home settings, performing physical health observations including blood taking, ECG, Blood pressure monitoring, BMI calculations and asking questions relating to service user’s lifestyle e.g. smoking status and diet.

Participate in the planning and running of clinics with planned appointment times for service users to attend.

There will be an expectation to provide healthy living advise to service users and make referrals to teams within LYPFT and other organisations to assist service users to improve physical health and wellbeing.

The role will require support and escalation of service users who present with both physical ill health and deterioration in mental health symptoms. The post holder will be expected to highlight any changes in mental health and physical health presentation to relevant professional e.g. Care Coordinator, CRISS.

Main duties of the job

Setting up and preparing clinics on a daily basis. The Physical Health Monitoring and Improvement Team currently delivers three separate clinics:

• Clozapine Clinic – Blood monitoring, physical health checks, medication dispensing.
• Physical Health checks – For service users on high dose antipsychotics or other medications requiring monitoring.
• Depot Clinic – patients attend clinic for the administration of their depot medication.

In addition to static clinics, we also offer the above services as home visits for those patients unable to attend clinic sites.

Dispensing and administering prescribed medications within a clinic setting.

Performing physical health checks on service users including blood taking, ECG and lifestyle questions.

Offering advice to service users about healthy living options.

Referring and escalating physical health and mental health issues to relevant professionals.

Ensuring service users appointments are booked and communicated to service users.

Will work towards delivering effective supervision of junior members of staff and assisting with improving practice within the service.

Working for our organisation

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

 

 

 

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Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position on the basis of a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application.

Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

Please note that from 1^st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.

LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children.  Please refer to job description for further information.

Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a  focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response. 

LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria. 

We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs. 

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidates best interest to apply as soon as possible.

In view of Home Office Immigration Regulations all applicants must state their current immigration status, including expiry dates.

In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.

 

In submitting an application for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not. 

If you have not received any further communication from us within four weeks you are asked to assume that your application has been unsuccessful. If you should have any queries regarding progress with your application form please contact us.

Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.