Health Improvement Worker - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Nottingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the RushcliffeLMHT. The LMHT provides specialised mental health assessments and evidence based treatment within the Rushcliffe area.

The service is committed to the principles of recovery; aiming for people to be empowered, to be as independent as possible and to support the individual with wellness recovery planning.

A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

The Rushcliffe Locality Mental Health Team are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and motivated Band 4 Health Improvement Worker to work across the Rushcliffe area.

This would be working within the LMHT working with secondary Mental Healthcare Services; you would work with patients identified as having serious mental illness and cardio-metabolic risk factors.

People with a Serious Mental Illness die on average years earlier than the general population often due to the under identification or poor management of their cardio-metabolic risk factors.

This role will involve working alongside mental health teams and general practices to proactively identify patients with SMI, undertake physical health checks and to help the patient to manage these risk factors.

Itwill involve coordination and communication between the different parts of the service that the patients are in contact with.

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences.

We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career.

Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

To support and engage with people with Serious Mental Illness to have their cardio-metabolic risk factors measured.

To carry out observations and take blood samples in order for risk factors to be identified.

To support patients in understanding their risk factors, how to manage their risk factors and agree a plan with the patient for ongoing monitoring and management of the risks under the supervision of a state registered clinician.

Lived experience of mental illness and/or experience of working with patients with serious mental illness and complex needs is desirable.