Physical Health Assistant Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Physical Health Assistant Practitioner in the Lewisham Early Intervention Service will be involved in physical health screening and monitoring, delivering interventions such as providing healthy lifestyle advice and running groups around exercise, wellbeing and healthy eating to service users.

The post holder will be working autonomously within clearly defined boundaries, supporting the provision of a physical health screening and intervention service for service users in line with the standards outlined by NHS England Better Access to Early Intervention.

The Practitioner will work collaboratively across a range of disciplines and agencies (such as primary care and public health) to help engage service users participation in health promotion/positive lifestyle behaviours.

The Physical Health Assistant Practitioner will be responsible for independently running a physical health clinic, sharing results of investigations with team doctors, writing letters to GPs with results and any follow up actions, and completing necessary paperwork on patient records.

The practitioner will also deliver group and one to one health interventions to promote healthy lifestyle.

Applicants will be enthusiastic, creative and passionate about improving the physical health care of service users. Along with being able to work autonomously, problem solve and take initiative.

Applicants must have the ability to build positive and effective professional relationships and be prepared to receive training in phlebotomy and ECGs.

SLaM is committed to improving the physical health of all community patients.

Along with this NHS England set out a number of standards, two being Physical Health and Promoting Healthy Lifestyle that all Early Intervention in Psychosis Services should be meeting.

Lewisham Early Intervention Service was awarded funding to create a designated role to improve physical health of clients accessing the service.

The post holder will be required to use both ePJS and primary care patient record systems to perform investigations and enter health data on patients attending the team base and being visited at home.

The employment of the Assistant Practitioner working across the secondary care primary care interface will be able to make much better links along the care pathway and allow direct communication between primary and secondary care services.

The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) physical health checks are the key physical health checks required and include: