Assistant Practitioner - Physical Health Team

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Community Physical Health Team as we move into a new model working with our Primary Care colleagues to deliver health assessments for people with a severe mental illness.
The post is open to qualified Assistant Practitioners covering South Sefton & Liverpool areas.
The post holder will demonstrate excellent clinical and communication skills and be a team player working closely with the Community Physical Health team and Primary Care.
You will have a clear commitment to person-centered care and will be able to demonstrate this in your work with individuals, families and teams. You will be expected to work under the supervision of the band 7.
The post holder will provide physical health assessments, health promotion advice in line with national guidance and sign post / refer people on to appropriate services/organisations to meet the needs identified through their health assessment. There will also be a requirement of the successful candidate to work with the team in developing and delivering enhanced support to the identified patient group and monitoring the impact of their interventions on patient outcomes., To provide clinical assessment, screening and intervention for the physical health needs for individuals on the SMI register.
To work with the qualified nurses in meeting the health outcomes of our clients and provide person centered intervention and holistic care.
To liaise and link in with identified GP practices ensuring the patients needs are appropriately identified and met, To contribute to the delivery of Physical Health assessment, care Plans under the direct supervision of the practitioner
To be proactive in maximizing health, well being and social inclusion of service users
To report any concerns or identified physical health issues to the MDT, nurse practitioner and or GP This should include any concerns arising from the service-users environment, physical or mental health.
To maintain effective communication between the community physical health team, individuals, relatives, carers, community mental health teams and primary care services
To use a variety of verbal and non-verbal skills to overcome communication barriers presented by service users due to their learning disability and mental health needs.
As directed by the qualified practitioners, play a specific role in maintaining a safe environment for service users, staff and visitors.
To carry out specific duties that contribute to the assessment of service user's physical health assessment, health interventions and sign posting.
To carry out, under supervision or direction, activities, which optimize service user's level of functioning and develop meaningful activities for individuals and groups.
To use skills and techniques, gained during mandatory training, to deescalate situations where service users become physically and verbally aggressive.
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We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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Merseycare is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.