Physical Health Practitioner

A new position has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Physical Health Practitioner to join the Healthcare Team that works within Lincolnshire Secure Unit in Sleaford. This job can also give you the opportunity for you to visit and spend time learning about the different areas in the CAMHS service There are two types of placements - Youth Justice Placements and Welfare Placements. The Youth Justice Board (YJB) will place young people in the Unit who are either on remand or serving a sentence for criminal behaviour. Young people on a Welfare Placement are not sentenced but secure accommodation may be the best way to guarantee their safety and welfare or to prevent them from causing harm to other people. The placements are made up of young people from a variety of backgrounds who can display difficult and challenging behaviour, symptomatic of a chaotic and sometimes abusive background. As a Physical Health Practitioner, you will be expected to work within an MDT environment, provide a high standard of needs and risk assessment and deliver group work and individual care packages, through the Care Programme Approach processes, to children and young people residing in the LSU. To provide a high standard of healthcare to children and young people, within an MDT environment, including health screening, health promotion and education, sexual health, programme of immunisation and vaccination and support with identified substance misuse as appropriate. The post holder will be responsible for conducting regular health checks for children and young people resident in the unit, as well as undertaking physical observations and procedures as required. In addition the postholder will provide sessions for long-term conditions such as asthma and diabetes, coordinate secondary health needs and facilitate the GP clinics. The post holder will provide professional advice and support to members of the multi-disciplinary team and work flexibly between 9am and 9pm, including some weekends and bank holidays. The post holder will deliver group work and individual care packages to children and young people resident in the LSU with physical health and/or substance misuse problems 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 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, 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, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. 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 are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services. This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. 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. - Deliver high-quality, up to date, patient-centred clinical care through assessment, diagnosing, planning, implementation and evaluation of the service user’s physical health needs, as part of a holistic care approach. - Have expert knowledge and experience of carrying out assessment of physical health parameters with the ability to act in a timely manner when finding are outside of the normal range. - Initiate physical health care plans/care pathways which monitor and review and meet the needs of the person's physical health. - Liaise effectively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to enable a holistic approach. - Have sound knowledge and understanding in advances in clinical theory/practice in relation to general medicine and mental health, and act as a catalyst for innovation. - Promote and support the children/young people, families/carers and colleagues involvement in the clinical decision making process, working with the MDT in times of distress and uncertainty. - Ensure a multi-professional/agency approach is maintained, valuing the interface of professional roles and responsibilities. - Facilitate education and choice for healthy living, using a health promotion and health protection approach, including sexual health. - Support and facilitate an immunisation/vaccination programme in line with best practice guidance with external health care provide