Job summary
We are seeking a motivated and compassionate Band 6 Nurse Practitioner to join our Physical Health Monitoring Team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centred care to individuals with eating disorders who require close physical health monitoring.
You will work autonomously and alongside a Band 7 clinician to case manage high-risk patients, ensuring robust assessment, care planning and risk management. The role includes running clinics, completing physical observations (e.g. ECGs, venepuncture, BMI and vital signs), and undertaking home visits where required.
You will liaise closely with multidisciplinary teams, primary care and acute services, providing expert guidance and promoting recovery-focused care. Strong clinical decision-making, organisational skills and the ability to work under pressure are essential.
Applicants must be a registered Adult Nurse with experience in physical health monitoring and care planning. You will be committed to continuous professional development and delivering safe, effective and compassionate care.
Join us and make a meaningful difference to patient outcomes in a supportive, forward-thinking team.
Main duties of the job
Key duties include delivering high quality, person centred physical health monitoring for high risk patients within the Eating Disorders Service. The post holder will assess, plan and implement holistic care, including risk management, and jointly case manage unallocated high risk patients. Responsibilities include running and maintaining clinics, completing physical observations such as ECGs, venepuncture, vital signs, BMI and urinalysis, and undertaking home visits where required.
The role involves working autonomously, using advanced clinical reasoning to make decisions, recognise deterioration and escalate concerns appropriately. Effective communication and liaison with multidisciplinary teams, primary care and external agencies is essential to ensure coordinated care and appropriate referrals.
Additional duties include maintaining accurate clinical records, supporting and educating colleagues and partner services, ensuring equipment is safe and functional, and contributing to a positive team environment. The post holder will also support junior staff and students, adhere to professional standards, and engage in continuous professional development while promoting safe, recovery focused care.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Details
- Date posted: 23 June 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 6
- Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
- Reference number: 348-PSE-11683
- Job locations: April House, 9 Bath Road, Southampton, Hampshire, SO19 5ES, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Up-to-date skills and experience in physical health monitoring.
- Experience of assessment and care planning with consideration of risk.
- Experience of effective liaison with other professionals and agencies.
- Good IT skills -- ability to utilise all electronic systems to record data.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Ability to meet deadlines and to work under pressure.
- Aware of accountability and own role.
- Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment.
- Good knowledge of the NMC Code of Conduct.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with current Registration (Adult Nurse, RNA).
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
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