Job summary
BSW Physical Health Care Service Lead - 8a
People with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness are dying 15-20 years younger due to avoidable physical health conditions. In Bath Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) we are pleased to be in a position to offer you a key role in making a positive difference to the life and wellbeing of this cohort of people.
As the Lead, you will assist in developing and shaping the service offer to ensure people on the GP SMI register and under the care of AWP teams receive appropriate physical health care including the completion of relevant health care checks.
The postholder will provide Leadership to a new team of physical health clinicians working across the three counties, which form the BSW division. The post holder will Lead, this new service in partnership with a Consultant Psychiatrist and GP both with an area of special interest in relation to this service.
Main duties of the job
As the Lead, you will assist in developing and shaping the service offer to ensure people on the GP SMI register and under the care of AWP teams receive appropriate physical health care including the completion of relevant health care checks.
The Lead role will have responsibility for:
- Owning and leading the implementation of the physical health strategy across the Division, working closely with corporate and operational leads to ensure that the service provided meets national standards and local ambitions
- Be accountable for delivering physical health check standards and completion of all necessary data capture
- Oversee and coordinate training and development of not only the physical health team, but also engaging with wider community teams to ensure that all staff have essential training in identifying and understanding the physical health needs of their patients
- Ensuring that existing and new care planning arrangements (in line with the national position statement to move away from CPA) incorporate physical health monitoring
- In partnership with primary care, community teams and third sector colleagues, ensure that opportunities are created and taken to deliver integrated models of delivering physical and mental health care, e.g. links with Local Authority Health Trainer provision
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical PracticeProvides advanced physical health nursing advice as requiredInterprets seemingly anomalous diagnostic reports; deciding whether and to whom related questions should be escalated.Develops specialised innovative care packages for individual and groups of service usersWorks closely with chronically, potentially terminally, ill patients with continuing serious mental illnessesPersonally engages with patients as required: often presenting highly challenging advice to already emotionally challenged service usersProvides very sensitive sometimes complex physical health condition related information to service users who are experiencing serious mental illnessesDocuments own interventions and actions on appropriate information systemsUndertakes a range of physical health nursing tasks including taking blood, cauterization, subcut, rehydration, etcUndertakes activities required to maintain continuing registration as an RGNAssesses clinical risks across physical dimensions paying heed and influencing mental health, safeguarding and other risk profilesProvides clinical supervision to staff within managed physical health care and other staff as required to deliver effective physical health care within assigned areasOccasionally exposed to unpleasant working conditions due to the challenging remarks of service users or the physical context of those conversationsParticipate in governance/patient safety/safeguarding processes and structures as appropriate to assigned service areaReceives regular clinical supervision from a practitioner identified as advanced by Head ofPhysical HealthcareLeadership and ManagementRelationship Maintenance and BuildingMeets regularly and jointly with both operational line manager and Head of Physical HealthcareProactively builds positive relationships with colleagues within AWP, primary care and other related agencies; building networks for all staff to engage successful inWorks effectively with other operational healthcare leaders across the service areaWorks effectively with other physical health care leads in AWP to best advance this agendaRepresents AWP, with regard to the physical health agenda, to a range of parties including GPs, acute consultants etcSystem DevelopmentPlans the evolution of the physical health service, within mental health, in a defined area of activityParticipates in the development of all clinical pathways; advocating for the physical health agenda in areas of practice where this is not routinely prioritiesDevelops and sponsors specialised innovative care systems responding carefully to the perspectives of other stakeholdersIdentifies links, and opportunities for the development of physical healthcare practice, within area of operationEstablishes quality improvement programmes across assigned services area. (Outcomes will effect the practice of own staff and other staff employed by AWP and other healthcare agencies)Actively engages in quality improvement programmes commissioned by othersActively participates in the development of information recording systems used by teams and continuously reviews the effectiveness of these systemsLeads and delivers cross service projects as requiredSystem MaintenanceEnsures that all adverse incidents are appropriately investigated and that are lessons are learned system wide. The post holder will sometimes leads investigation and other times provide advanced advice.Ensures that the physical health agenda is not neglected in the routine treatment of mental health service users in assigned service areasCross covering for other physical health leads and staff as requiredParticipates in the general governance systems within area of operation making advanced practice recommendations where appropriateRepresents the physical health care agenda, on behalf of AWP, at inquests, inquiries and such like Resource ManagementManages the delegated budgets of physical health care teamsLine manages several team leaders in assigned areas; addressing performance issues as appropriateEnsures that rosters are effectively managed within budgetsEnsures that small physical health teams across wide geographical area can and do cross coverNegotiates, within a crowded estates strategy, accommodation for service delivery within an assigned areaMakes operational judgements concerning staffing allocations for instance during periods of service disruption and absenceEndorses investment required to provide exceptional care packages required to meet physical health needs that AWP is required to provide for individuals and groups of service usersEducationLeads in the planning of the physical health training programme for mental health staff in a defined service areaProvides specialist education and training to other staff and students in AWP and other organisations in assigned survive areasResearchSeeks opportunities to establish formal research programmes addressing the physical health care provided to mental health service users in own area of operationDirects audits of AWP clinical activity in the field of physical health care of mental health service usersLeads the audit plan for physical health in a defined service area; generating related action plans as appropriateContinuously reviews service delivery against emerging best practice and national guidance
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical PracticeProvides advanced physical health nursing advice as requiredInterprets seemingly anomalous diagnostic reports; deciding whether and to whom related questions should be escalated.Develops specialised innovative care packages for individual and groups of service usersWorks closely with chronically, potentially terminally, ill patients with continuing serious mental illnessesPersonally engages with patients as required: often presenting highly challenging advice to already emotionally challenged service usersProvides very sensitive sometimes complex physical health condition related information to service users who are experiencing serious mental illnessesDocuments own interventions and actions on appropriate information systemsUndertakes a range of physical health nursing tasks including taking blood, cauterization, subcut, rehydration, etcUndertakes activities required to maintain continuing registration as an RGNAssesses clinical risks across physical dimensions paying heed and influencing mental health, safeguarding and other risk profilesProvides clinical supervision to staff within managed physical health care and other staff as required to deliver effective physical health care within assigned areasOccasionally exposed to unpleasant working conditions due to the challenging remarks of service users or the physical context of those conversationsParticipate in governance/patient safety/safeguarding processes and structures as appropriate to assigned service areaReceives regular clinical supervision from a practitioner identified as advanced by Head ofPhysical HealthcareLeadership and ManagementRelationship Maintenance and BuildingMeets regularly and jointly with both operational line manager and Head of Physical HealthcareProactively builds positive relationships with colleagues within AWP, primary care and other related agencies; building networks for all staff to engage successful inWorks effectively with other operational healthcare leaders across the service areaWorks effectively with other physical health care leads in AWP to best advance this agendaRepresents AWP, with regard to the physical health agenda, to a range of parties including GPs, acute consultants etcSystem DevelopmentPlans the evolution of the physical health service, within mental health, in a defined area of activityParticipates in the development of all clinical pathways; advocating for the physical health agenda in areas of practice where this is not routinely prioritiesDevelops and sponsors specialised innovative care systems responding carefully to the perspectives of other stakeholdersIdentifies links, and opportunities for the development of physical healthcare practice, within area of operationEstablishes quality improvement programmes across assigned services area. (Outcomes will effect the practice of own staff and other staff employed by AWP and other healthcare agencies)Actively engages in quality improvement programmes commissioned by othersActively participates in the development of information recording systems used by teams and continuously reviews the effectiveness of these systemsLeads and delivers cross service projects as requiredSystem MaintenanceEnsures that all adverse incidents are appropriately investigated and that are lessons are learned system wide. The post holder will sometimes leads investigation and other times provide advanced advice.Ensures that the physical health agenda is not neglected in the routine treatment of mental health service users in assigned service areasCross covering for other physical health leads and staff as requiredParticipates in the general governance systems within area of operation making advanced practice recommendations where appropriateRepresents the physical health care agenda, on behalf of AWP, at inquests, inquiries and such like Resource ManagementManages the delegated budgets of physical health care teamsLine manages several team leaders in assigned areas; addressing performance issues as appropriateEnsures that rosters are effectively managed within budgetsEnsures that small physical health teams across wide geographical area can and do cross coverNegotiates, within a crowded estates strategy, accommodation for service delivery within an assigned areaMakes operational judgements concerning staffing allocations for instance during periods of service disruption and absenceEndorses investment required to provide exceptional care packages required to meet physical health needs that AWP is required to provide for individuals and groups of service usersEducationLeads in the planning of the physical health training programme for mental health staff in a defined service areaProvides specialist education and training to other staff and students in AWP and other organisations in assigned survive areasResearchSeeks opportunities to establish formal research programmes addressing the physical health care provided to mental health service users in own area of operationDirects audits of AWP clinical activity in the field of physical health care of mental health service usersLeads the audit plan for physical health in a defined service area; generating related action plans as appropriateContinuously reviews service delivery against emerging best practice and national guidance
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Qualification sufficient to provide for continuing registration as a Registered General Nurse by the NMC
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced levels of knowledge in general nursing practice pertinent to assigned service areas
- An advanced - and continuously evolving - understanding of the local physical health care system pertinent to assigned service areas
- Knowing how best to engage with practitioners in other agencies, their service priorities and formal responsibilities, and how they operate in theory and practice
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Qualification sufficient to provide for continuing registration as a Registered General Nurse by the NMC
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced levels of knowledge in general nursing practice pertinent to assigned service areas
- An advanced - and continuously evolving - understanding of the local physical health care system pertinent to assigned service areas
- Knowing how best to engage with practitioners in other agencies, their service priorities and formal responsibilities, and how they operate in theory and practice
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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