Physical Health Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

We have a great opportunity for a Registered Mental Health or Registered General Nurse to join our service. This is an exciting new role within the Citywide Eating Disorder service.

The Physical Health team is newly developed, and we aim to offer physical health care reviews including physical observations, ECG and phlebotomy to our service users who present with high levels of physical risk due to the nature of the illness associated with Eating disorders, mainly being anorexia.

The Physical Health team will be a small team initially and aims to consist of x2 band 6 registered nurses , a GP with Special interest and x 2 band 4 Healthcare Assistants with support from The team Consultant.

The team will support the physical health needs, initially of service users across Salford, Bury and Wigan with plans to expand across the GM foot print as the service develops and becomes more  established, this may require our staff to partake in a rotation across locations within Greater Manchester. Where there is a requirement to travel significantly further than the team base in Salford from home, travel time and expenses will be provided.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide and carry out ;

- Physical health observations such as BP, pulse, temperature, BM’s, oxygen saturation levels, respiratory rate.

• Weight and Height recording (with an understanding of healthy weight parameters and BMI.)
• ECG recording
• Blood tests.
• Review and highlight any concerns about physical health to doctors in the team.
• Using a protocol or act on advice from a team doctor to make a management plan where needed if physical health checks show abnormalities. Advice will be available from a doctor to support with this.
• Providing information to patients about their physical health
• Advice & support in managing long term medical conditions.
• Potential basic wound care
• Offer practical mental health support and have an awareness and understanding of eating disorders.
• Responding to urgent requests where required particularly if there has been high risk factors brought to your attention and seek medical support where indicated.
• Audit and review of the clinic in conjunction with the Operational manager.
• Adhere to MEED guidelines (Medical Emergencies in Eating Disorders.) We are looking for an RMN/ RGN to facilitate physical health monitoring clinics and provide care to those who require intensive monitoring whilst under the service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities