Wellbeing Nurse

Job overview

An exciting position has arisen for an experienced Nurse with interest in medication management and physical health, is passionate about improving outcomes for service users with long term mental illness within our Community Mental health Hub.

If you are, then you will already know that people with serious mental illness have significantly shorter than average life expectancy and much higher than average incidence of physical health conditions.

We are continually striving to redress this health equality in our service by appointing a Wellbeing Nurse to oversee the running of the community depot clinics and to be responsible alongside our Physical Health Nurses for ensuring our seriously mentally ill patients receive their anti psychotic medication and physical health checks.

As well as having good knowledge of mental health conditions, anti -psychotic medication and associated side effects, you will need to be a highly organised person, able to adapt quickly.

Main duties of the job

• To coordinate and oversee the running of wellbeing and depot clinic’s working closely and flexibly with a team of Physical Health Nurses as part of the Community Mental health Hub.  Provide comprehensive and accessible mental health services to services users in a clinic setting, working with people diagnosed with severe and enduring mental illness in the community.
• To engage with service users within the clinic setting, to assess mental state, physical health, monitor treatment, support concordance and ensure prompt action is taken to alleviate unwanted effects of prescribed medication to make every contact count MECC
• To assess physical health and deliver interventions to promote optimal physical wellbeing (i.e. smoking, weight and lifestyle issues) working closely with the physical health nurses.
• To lead and participate in the running of the weekly depot clinic, communicating any issues or concerns about depot patients with the relevant members of staff in the team
• Demonstrate competency at running busy treatment clinics, develop a specialty in depot administration sharing knowledge of this to upskill other nurses in the team
• Deliver training to other staff and students on the delivery of depots.
• Keyworking and to develop a process to ensure patients under depot-only provision are accessing medical reviews when required
• Stocktake medication usage to ensure all medications are ordered and available.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To participate in relevant meetings and effectively develop personal skills knowledge and experience through supervision and training
• To undertake risk assessments, according to Trust policy
• To assess physical health and deliver interventions to promote optimal physical wellbeing (i.e. smoking, weight and lifestyle issues)
• To help clients gain fair and equal access to services, through choice and social inclusion and being sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity and gender, sexuality and disability
• To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies
• To ensure CNWL Child Protection Guidelines and Safeguarding Children and Adult procedures are fully understood by self and others. To ensure the safety needs of children and adults are met at all times
• To provide leadership for junior staff, through supervision and appraisal.
• To provide mentorship for students on placement within the team.
• To educate internal and external customers of Service, including students and junior staff of all professions
• To care plan using DIALOG plus