Wellbeing Nurse

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Wellbeing Nurse to oversee community depot clinics and coordinate care with Physical Health Nurses within the Community Mental Health Hub. The role focuses on ensuring patients receive anti-psychotic medications and regular physical health checks.

You will work with service users who have long-term mental illness to promote health, monitor treatment, and reduce adverse effects, while delivering staff training and

Qualifications

• Coordinate and oversee wellbeing and depot clinic operations with Physical Health Nurses.
• Assess mental state and physical health, monitor treatment, and support concordance.
• Deliver training to staff and students on depot administration and medication management.
• Lead weekly depot clinic sessions and ensure medical reviews are conducted as required.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive mental health services to service users in a clinic setting.
• Promote optimal physical wellbeing by addressing smoking, weight and lifestyle issues.
• Stocktake medication usage and ensure medication is ordered and available.
• Engage with service users to assess, monitor, and take prompt action on medication side effects.

Job description

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.,

• 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 is ordered and available.
  We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust.

With every new employee were hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.