Job overview
To carry out comprehensive physical health assessments for service users in Swindon with a diagnosed severe mental illness, identify and signpost to relevant interventions as needed, such smoking cessation, exercise groups, diet advice, and alcohol advice, as per NICE guideline standards.
The assessments will take place in a range of locations dependent on needs; this could be in the service users home or at a trust site.
The role will require independent and lone working at times. To develop and deliver educational groups regarding good physical health regimes.
This role will require staff to cover a large geographical area with limited public transport while carrying equipment to undertake physical health assessments.
Main duties of the job
To identify the SMI cohort open to case holding teams in Swindon, review the clinical record to ensure a physical health check and record appropriately if so, offer physical health checks to those that need them at NHS base or home address according to service user needs, write to GP's and other involved professionals about the outcome of the checks. Support with groups and projects in the realm of physical health and SMI including the allotment project which is currently running.
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