Job summary

Purpose of the role:

To provide dedicated physical-health monitoring and intervention within the community mental health team, supporting people with severe mental illness to receive timely, holistic physical healthcare.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities

• Deliver and support the running and organisation of physical health clinics within Riviera Community Mental Health Team.
• Complete routine physical-health monitoring, including:

1. Blood pressure and pulse
2. Weight, BMI and waist circumference
3. Blood glucose/HbA1c
4. Lipid profiles
5. ECGs where trained and appropriate

• Smoking, alcohol and lifestyle assessments
• Support physical-health monitoring for patients prescribed antipsychotic medication, including depot medication.
• Identify abnormal results and escalate appropriately to the registered clinician, GP or other healthcare professional.
• Provide brief health-promotion interventions around diet, exercise, smoking cessation and cardiovascular risk.
• Support patients to attend physical-health appointments and overcome barriers to accessing primary care.
• Maintain accurate clinical documentation and ensure results are recorded on relevant systems.
• Follow up outstanding investigations and referrals.
• Support recall systems so that patients receive their physical-health checks within required timeframes.
• Assist with audits and data collection relating to physical-health performance.
• Work alongside nurses, doctors, pharmacists, healthcare assistants and primary-care colleagues.
• Undertake delegated clinical interventions within their competence and scope of practice.

About us

About Devon Partnership Trust

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.