Community Physical Health Nurse | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; St Helens; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in St Helens is seeking a skilled professional to enhance physical health services within the community. The role involves conducting assessments, coordinating clinics, and supervising clinical staff to ensure comprehensive patient care. Strong leadership and communication skills are essential, along with experience in healthcare. The position offers an opportunity to significantly impact community health outcomes while working collaboratively with service users and their families.

Qualifications

• Experience in physical health and wellbeing promotion.
• Knowledge of chronic conditions such as diabetes and obesity.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct screenings and assessments for patients in Primary Care.
• Coordinate physical health clinics and outreach appointments.
• Liaise with care teams to provide seamless care.
• Supervise and develop clinical staff in physical health care.
• Manage and communicate across services for patient care.

Job description

Trust Overview

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Responsibilities

• Screening, assessment, brief intervention and sign‑posting for patients within Primary Care to promote their physical health and wellbeing.
• Co‑ordination of physical health clinics, outreach appointments and collaboration with team members and Primary Care colleagues to ensure annual health screening and ongoing health promotion.
• Liaison with the appropriate care team involved in patients within Primary Care to provide seamless all‑round care.
• Support performance monitoring and quality across community services and Primary Care, providing performance data, audits and action planning.
• Travel between various sites across St Helens as required.
• Provide up‑to‑date, evidence‑based clinical leadership for physical health to community mental health teams and Primary Care services in line with national standards.
• Supervise, teach and develop physical health care skills to clinical staff; act as a positive role model in clinical practice.
• Manage junior staff including sickness, absence, PACE and supervision.
• Communicate across secondary mental health services and Primary Care to manage the physical health care needs of patients.
• Sign‑post patients to external agencies for conditions such as diabetes, COPD, cardiovascular conditions, hypertension and obesity.
• Coordinate the physical care of service users, carrying out assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation under the line manager’s supervision.
• Ensure the service user’s physical health status is highlighted and proactively followed up where needs exist by the most appropriate care team.
• Document accurately and legibly all relevant information with regards to a service user’s care and treatment in their health record; supervise and monitor entries made by junior team members.
• Assist in assessing and supervising nursing and other students.
• Contribute to teaching sessions and induction of new staff.
• Document incidents or near misses as per Trust policy and take follow‑up action.
• Participate in service user discussions/reviews to ensure needs are met and the team has relevant information for clinical decisions.
• Develop care plans enabling service users to reach and maintain optimal health and wellbeing.
• React proactively in cases of physical health deterioration and implement immediate resolution plans with appropriate supervision.
• Lead and supervise the provision of therapeutic activities for service users and monitor their effectiveness.
• Maintain safe custody of sharps and clinical equipment.
• Manage own time and workload, prioritising work appropriately.

This advert closes on Monday 12 Jan 2026.