Community Physical Health Nurse
| Posting date: | 18 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 January 2026 |
| Location: | St Helens, WA9 3DE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9350-25-1443 |
Summary
To coordinate the physical care of service users carrying out assessment planning, implementation and evaluation of their care under the supervision of the line manager. To ensure that the service users physical health status is highlighted and proactively followed up where needs exist by the most appropriate care team. Ensuring that all relevant information with regards to a service users care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into their health record. Supervise and monitor the entries made by junior team members, through performance management and audit. To liaise significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan. To direct other staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of physical care to service users. To participate in setting physical health standards for care based on sound evidence based and research findings. To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users that with guidance from a supervisor. To communicate with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the communication of any relevant information that has an impact on the service users physical care. To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive information. To check understanding of information where there are often barriers to effective communications due to distress, psychiatric symptoms or where English is not the first language. To use skills gained through training and experience to give and receive information to other individuals with regards to a service users care in the reviews and multidisciplinary meetings. These individuals may be external to the Trust. To provide and co-ordinate the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users and monitor their effectiveness. To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service users care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record. To supervise and monitor the entries made by unqualified staff. Under the guidance of a supervisor provide reports both in written and verbal formats as requested and required. To contribute to teaching sessions in order to pass on knowledge and skills. To ensure that all incidents or near misses are documented as per Trust policy and that any follow up action is taken. To actively participate in service user discussions/reviews where appropriate ensuring that service user needs are met and that the team has all the relevant information on which to base their clinical decisions. To develop care plans that enable service users to reach and maintain their optimum level of health and wellbeing to help them to obtain their optimum health. To react pro-actively in cases of service user physical health deterioration and put in place immediate plans to resolve the situation with supervision and guidance as appropriate. To assist in the assessment and supervision of nursing and other students. To assess and monitor the physical health of service users, seeking advice and support from medical staff as appropriate. To actively participate in team meetings in order to positively influence team working and the development of research-based practice. To participate in the induction of new staff. To maintain safe custody of sharps and other clinical equipment. To manage own time and workload, prioritising work appropriately.