Physical Health Nurse

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.

We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is “making life better together”.

When you join us, you'll be part of something special - an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.

As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.

The Forensic Inpatient Service and phoenix ward provides short- and long-term hospital admissions to both male and female patients suffering from serious mental health problems such as psychotic illness, bipolar affective disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Each ward is staffed by a multidisciplinary team who are responsible for assessing, managing and reducing the risk to the person and community whilst in our care.

The Forensic Inpatient Service provides admission under the Mental Health Act within both low and medium level of security which is generally agreed with the referring team/court/Ministry of Justice.

The Forensic Inpatient Service works in collaboration with referring teams to help the person move back to an appropriate community setting as soon as possible.

• Halswell Ward is a 16 bedded medium secure ward.
• Ruby Ward is a 10 bedded female secure ward;
• Hume Ward, a 16 bedded low secure admission ward located in the main hospital.
• Oak Unit, an 12-bedded low secure incorporating male with mental illness and intellectual disability.
• Burntwood Villa - 15-bedded hub and spoke unit with the main 24 hours staffed (8 bed mixed gender Burntwood Villa) being the hub and the two step-down houses (Redwood and Fairways; 3 beds and 4 beds respectively) being spokes and not 24 hours staffed

Phoenix ward - 18-bed high dependency inpatient rehabilitation unit.

The post holder will be responsible for providing physical health nursing assessments, care. education and treatment for adults with serious mental illness across several wards in a mental health hospital setting. You will be responsible for delivery of high-quality service and continuity of care by undertaking regular health checks of adults with serious mental illness receiving treatment from the services. The role also involves supporting and promoting physical wellbeing and educating service users, carers and colleagues.

The post holder will rollout education for all disciplines of staff working with patients in the pathway with a comprehensive focus of the physical health treatment and prevention. The post holder should demonstrate an awareness of local and national nursing agendas.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we…