Are you a Physical Health Nurse looking for a new opportunity to work in an organisation that will help you to develop and achieve your goals to become the best you can be? If so, you’re in luck. Join our team in Brighton & Hove Clinic.
Working 37.5 hours per week as an experienced Nurse from the NHS or private sector, you’ll join the team at Brighton & Hove as a Physical Health Nurse working 9am-5pm Monday to Friday where you will change lives for the better.
Your career at Elysium will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills and make a real difference for some of the most vulnerable people in society.
Working alongside the individual and their families, the MDT will collaboratively create care plans and risk assessments. You will empower individuals to manage and improve their health through their treatment within the community. It’s a career that you can take pride in and enjoy. It’s what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Facilitating physical healthcare plans/ treatments to patient’s, in order to maintain their optimum level of physical well-being
• Leading the development and review of all care plans for physical health, to ensure that patient’s physical health needs have clear interventions, which are being met
• Carrying out routine and ad-hoc PCR swabs for patients
• Facilitating/support staff to ensure that routine and ad hoc blood tests are carried out as prescribed and the results recorded appropriately and followed up where appropriate with the medical team
• Ensuring that all patients have their ECG’s as prescribed by the Consultant and that results are communicated to the clinical team and evidence is documented on Care notes
• Educating staff in relation to the use of Naso-gastric tube feeding ensuring that staff are adhering to the requirements outlined in their prescriptions from the dietitian and that care plans are updated to reflect the current prescription
• Attend ICR meetings as required and to contribute to the development and review of physical healthcare plans
• Undertaking Audits
• Facilitating educational workshop/teaching sessions on aspects of physical care healthcare best practice treatments

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU’LL NEED:

• To hold a full NMC registration in general nursing (RGN)
• A minimum of 3 years post registration experience
• To evidence of a Valid NMC registration
• Experience in NG Feeding & Phlebotomy
• Experience of training others
• A commitment to high-quality care and to values and evidence-based practice
• An understanding of eating disorders and mental health
• Experience of working with young people is desirable