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Physical Health Care Nurse - Hailsham, United Kingdom - Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Job summary
Are you a Physical Health Nurse Practitioner with a passion for working with children and young people who have experienced significant trauma and have complex needs?
Are you motivated by a role where you can make a huge difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable individuals in the community?
If so, our Physical Health Senior Nurse Practitioner position at Lansdowne Children's Home in Hailsham, East Sussex may be just the role for you
This is an exciting opportunity for a nurse, that focusses on addressing the health inequalities experienced by young people with traumatic experiences and complex needs.
You will be joining the Integrated Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service (IHEWS), a small welcoming multi-disciplinary health team whose role is to provide both physical and mental health support, substance misuse and primary care services for the young people at Lansdowne.
This post offers the Trust's £4,000 Incentive for band 5-7 Nurses & Practitioners, as well as a relocation package up to a maximum of £8,000 (subject to terms and conditions).
Main duties of the job
Your main duties will involve being responsible for:
Initial assessments of physical health on a young person's entry to Lansdowne
Support to the GP's and Practice Nurse who provide the primary care provision.
Facilitating access to secondary services such as dentistry and optometry.
Leading on the support to care staff who are caring for a young person with chronic health needs diabetes or epilepsy
Monitoring young people's physical health as required after a restraint, or as part of a wider health promotion intervention to address obesity.
Working collaboratively with the social care and education team on the creation of an environment that prioritises healthy eating and healthy living.
This is a part time post.
About us
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/lie balance brings about huge health related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Wed love you to join our Trust that is rated good overall and outstanding for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Other key staff survey results include:
We encourage flexible working . We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role.
The Setting
Lansdowne Secure Childrens Home is 12 bedded provision for young people aged The young people are placed with us for welfare reasons, secured under the Children's Act (1989), Section 25. They have a history of persistent absconding and are likely to continue to abscond from anything other than secure accommodation, during which episodes they are likely to suffer significant harm, or injure themselves or others. The young people have complex needs and are described as high need/high vulnerability/high risk.
The IHEWS Team
The Integrated Health & Emotional Wellbeing Service (IHEWS) is an embedded multidisciplinary health team commissioned by NHS England to support the physical and mental healthcare needs of young people at Lansdowne Secure Children's Home (SCH). Lansdowne SCH is 12 bedded provision for young people aged The young people are placed here for welfare reasons, secured under the Children's Act (1989), Section 25. They have a history of persistent absconding and are likely to continue to abscond from anything other than secure accommodation, during which episodes they are likely to suffer significant harm, or injure themselves or others. The young people have complex needs and are described as high need/high vulnerability/high risk.
IHEWS aims to:
You will work closely with the Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and the wider multi-disciplinary health team and will receive supervision from both a Senior Nurse in the SPFT Physical Healthcare Team and a Clinical Psychologist in the IHEWS service.
The trust
You will be linked in with the wider SPFT Physical Health Team which is comprised of registered general nurses, and works to support inpatient and community clinical services across SPFT (Mental Health, Learning Disability and CAMHS) in the delivery of high-quality physical health care for those who use their services.
You will also be part of an active team of nurses in CAMHS, and will be welcomed to local professional meetings and CPD events that focus on professional issues and supporting children and young people, with colleagues from all branches of nursing.
The trust is committed to supporting its nurses to progress professionally across the 4 pillars of nursing - Clinical Practice, Facilitating Learning, Leadership and Evidence, Research and Development. A copy of the CAMHS and Specialist Services Nursing Strategy can be found here.
You will be supported by the IHEWS with the space and time to grow and develop in your nursing role.
Person SpecificationQualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
