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Physical Health Practitioner / Nursing Associate

The closing date is 12 October 2025

To be an integral part of the Physical Health Care Team within the Lincolnshire Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) service. Supporting patients aged 14-65 years old in community settings to access high quality physical healthcare assessment, care plans and interventions.

Offering physical healthcare monitoring under the direction of the EIP Physical Healthcare Lead within the community settings around the East of the County however being countywide may also been required at times.

The post holder will support the wider nursing team to provide holistic and person centred physical healthcare monitoring and low level psychologically based interventions to make necessary improvements.

Main duties of the job

Provide physical healthcare monitoring interventions with service users in the countywide including providing advice to patients

Monitor the condition and physical health needs of people within their care on a continual basis in partnership with service users, families and carers

Contribute to ongoing assessment, recognising when it is necessary to refer to others for reassessment

Carry out care packages related to the physical health aspects of planned care

Recognise the contribution of others in the provision of service user care

Involve service users/ carers in the planning and delivery of care in a compassionate and appropriate manner which considers their diverse needs

Maintain the welfare and safety of service users and protect them from any form of abuse in accordance with safeguarding guidance

Demonstrate a knowledge of information governance and the need to protect service user confidential information

Make and maintain accurate records of monitoring interventions in accordance with Trust policy

Participate in regular clinical supervision

Engage in public health, community development and in the reduction of health inequalities

Be able to identify role boundaries

Leadership

Work in partnership with multi-professional colleagues or agencies

Contribute to innovation and new ways of working

Take part in local audit and research activities where appropriate

Maintain a professional role

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

Responsibilities for direct/indirect patient care

- Provide physical healthcare monitoring and health promotion interventions, implementing care packages under the direction of the Registered Practitioner
- Report and escalate concerns or abnormal outcomes of monitoring interventions to the Registered Practitioner or Responsible Clinician
- Monitor and contribute to the review of service user progress where frequent concentration is required against planned objectives and use initiative to act on the results within the sphere of ones own responsibility, including reporting observations and taking action to minimise risks
- Implement planned care which encourages and empowers service users and carers to maximise self care and autonomy under the direction of the Registered Practitioner
- Contribute to case conferences and reviews, supporting service users and carers to engage and contribute to their care
- Engage in the public health, community development and in the reduction of health inequalities

Responsibilities for policy and service development implementation

- Adhere to legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines both local and national. Regularly attend workplace and staff engagement meetings and contribute positively to discussions about the improvement of care

Responsibilities for financial and physical resources

- Exercise personal duty of care in the safe use and storage of equipment

Be environmentally aware and prudent in use of resources and energy

Person Specification

Qualifications

- GCSE Grade A-C or Grade 9-4 in Maths and English or functional skills level 2 Maths and English or equivalent
- Diploma or equivalent qualification in a health related subject, eg. foundation degree, or
- NVQ Level 3 plus short courses and relevant experience to Diploma level
- Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
- Care Certificate

Experience

- Previous experience of working within a health / care setting
- Understanding the context of multidisciplinary team working
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice
- Understanding of the importance of following procedures and treatment plans
- Experience of working in a physical healthcare environment/role
- Experience of working with patients with Severe Mental Illness

Skills

- Ability to support the development, implementation and evaluation of physical healthcare interventions of patients/service users
- Be skilled in carrying out basic physical healthcare interventions including: physical observations, , removal of wound, blood glucose monitoring, venepuncture, ECG recording
- Consider each service user's personal circumstances and preferences in order to implement and adjust programmes of care and intervention, in conjunction with the wider multi-disciplinary team
- Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
- Evidence of time management skills and ability to prioritise delegated workload
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients/ relatives and carers and all memberso fthe multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of the workload and individual patient contact
- Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers and colleagues
- Ability to support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to nursing associate students, other learners and health care support workers as required within the clinical setting
- oExperience of use of Point of Care Teasting Equipment

Special Requirements

- Be able to travel independently between sites without the use of public transport

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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