Physical Health Nurse

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Scredington; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 5 Physical Health Nurse to join the Millennium Lodge Secure Children’s Home in Sleaford. You will provide direct physical healthcare to children and young people in a multidisciplinary team, contributing to assessments, immunisations and health promotion.

The role involves early/late shifts, weekends, and on-call duties for new admissions, with a commitment to child-centered, trauma-informed care and safeguarding.

Qualifications

• NMC registered nursing qualification.
• Experience in paediatric or vulnerable populations is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Deliver direct physical healthcare to children and young people within Millennium Lodge as part of the multidisciplinary Healthcare Team.
• Undertake physical health assessments, screening and clinical observations; recognise and appropriately escalate concerns.
• Support immunisation and vaccination programmes, sexual health interventions, health promotion, long-term condition monitoring and GP/primary care clinics.
• Work collaboratively with the MDT to ensure continuity of care and appropriate referrals.
• Maintain accurate clinical records, contribute to safeguarding, audits and quality improvement, and deliver care with a child-first, trauma-informed approach.
• Work flexibly across commissioned hours, including early/late shifts and participate in the on-call rota for new admissions during weekends and Bank Holidays.

Education

NMC Registered Nurse

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Physical Health Nurse to join our established multidisciplinary Healthcare Team as we expand into the new Millennium Lodge Secure Children's Home in Sleaford. The team provides comprehensive healthcare to vulnerable children and young people aged 10-18 who may present with complex physical health, mental health, neurodevelopmental, substance misuse and psychosocial needs.

Working alongside our Band 6 Physical Health Practitioner and wider MDT, you will contribute to physical health assessment and screening, clinical observations, health promotion, long-term condition monitoring, immunisation and vaccination programmes, sexual health interventions and primary care clinics. We are looking for a compassionate, motivated Registered Nurse committed to child-centred, non-stigmatising and trauma-informed care.

The service operates 09:00-21:00 Monday-Friday and 09:00-13:00 weekends and Bank Holidays. The role includes early and late shifts and participation in the on-call rota for new admissions during commissioned weekend and Bank Holiday hours.

Main duties of the job

• You will deliver direct physical healthcare to children and young people within Millennium Lodge as part of the multidisciplinary Healthcare Team.
• You will undertake physical health assessments, screening and clinical observations; recognise and appropriately escalat[??].
• The role will support immunisation and vaccination programmes, sexual health interventions, health promotion, long-term condition monitoring and visiting GP/primary care clinics.
• You will work collaboratively with the Band 6 Physical Health Practitioner, GP, wider MDT, residential colleagues and external healthcare providers to ensure continuity of care.
• You will maintain accurate clinical records, contribute to safeguarding, audit, quality improvement and supervision, and deliver care using a child-first, trauma-informed and non-stigmatising approach.
• You will work flexibly across commissioned hours, including early and late shifts, and contribute to the weekend and Bank Holiday on-call rota for new admissions.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff-rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.