Senior Health and Wellbeing Clinic Nurse

Job summary

Would you value being part of an experienced team that is known for being welcoming, inclusive and flexible, with an approachable leadership team that is committed to putting staff wellbeing and patient safety at the forefront of our service?

As a team, we are passionate about providing a service of the highest quality that is safe, effective, compassionate and responsive. We are a multi-disciplinary, integrated service including Peer Workers, Employment Specialists and a Recovery and GP Stepdown Lead. We also work closely with our colleagues based in the Primary Care Networks.

We have a 12 month secondment opportunity for an experienced Mental Health Nurse or Dual Trained Mental Health and Adult General Nurse to join our team in the Health and Wellbeing Clinic. This is a city-wide service based within College Keep, that provides a service to patients with severe or enduring mental health needs who are under the three Community Mental Health Teams in Southampton: Central, East, and West.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of the Health and Wellbeing Clinic which is a city-wide service based with the Community Mental Health Team in Central Southampton.

To provide interventions such as depot administration, phlebotomy, and physical health checks according to the service users care plan and following local and national guidelines for the monitoring of medication and the physical health of the individuals under secondary mental health services.

To assess and monitor the service users response to prescribed medications, including the monitoring of Clozapine and high dose anti-psychotic treatment, escalating concerns as required and provide accurate information regarding medication advice.

To work in collaboration with service users as experts in their own care, promoting the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation, which value and empower the service user.

To promote health and wellbeing including smoking cessation, attendance for physical health checks, and encourage healthy activities.

To liaise closely with GP Practices, pharmacies, and hospitals across the city to ensure effective communication and high-quality care of our service users.

To provide clinical supervision and caseload management to a small team of practitioners.

To identify, implement and evaluate, with others, areas for potential service improvement and agree further action. This may include participation in audit and service improvement.

Job responsibilities

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