Physical Health Monitoring Team Clinical Lead

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Nurse Team Lead to join our Eating Disorders Service, leading the Physical Health Monitoring Team. This is an exciting opportunity to combine advanced clinical practice with leadership, playing a key role in improving outcomes for patients with complex needs within a growing service.

You will ensure high-quality physical health monitoring across the service, including managing high-risk patients, leading caseload reviews, and ensuring timely, effective care planning. The role requires strong clinical expertise, including assessment, risk management, and delivery of interventions such as ECGs, venepuncture, and monitoring of vital signs and BMI.

As Team Lead, you will provide line management and supervision to nursing staff and support workers, fostering a culture of safety, learning, and excellence. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies, offering specialist advice and promoting recovery-focused, person-centred care.

You will be a Registered Adult Nurse with experience in clinical assessment, physical health monitoring, and working with complex patients. Strong leadership, organisational skills, and the ability to work autonomously are essential. Experience in eating disorders is desirable.

We offer a supportive environment, development opportunities, and the chance to shape a specialist service.

If you are a compassionate, proactive clinician ready to step into leadership, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Lead the delivery of a high-quality Physical Health Monitoring Team within the Eating Disorders Service, ensuring patients receive safe, effective and timely care. Oversee and coordinate clinics, maintaining consistent standards and continuity, including providing cover when required.

Undertake clinical assessments, care planning and risk management for patients with complex needs, including case management of high-risk individuals. Deliver a range of interventions including venepuncture, ECGs, blood pressure monitoring, urinalysis, and measurement of weight and BMI, ensuring accurate and timely documentation.

Provide day-to-day leadership and management of the team, including supervision, appraisal and support for nursing staff and healthcare support workers. Allocate and review caseloads to ensure efficiency and timely interventions.

Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, primary care, acute services and partner agencies to ensure coordinated, person-centred care. Provide specialist advice, education and support to colleagues to improve patient outcomes.

Contribute to service development, audit and quality improvement, ensuring compliance with safeguarding, risk management and organisational policies. Respond to concerns appropriately and escalate when required.

Promote a recovery-focused approach, maintaining effective communication with patients, carers and professionals, and fostering a culture of safety, learning and continuous improvement.

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: 02 June 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year Based on full time hours
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 348-PSE-11528
• Job locations: April House, 9 Bath Road, Southampton, Hampshire, SO19 5ES, United Kingdom, Kingston Crescent Surgery, The Bluebell Rooms, 92 Kingston Crescent, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO2 8AL, 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.