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Job Title: Physical Health Lead (Band 7) | Mental Health

Ready to put physical health at the heart of mental health care? We need your leadership.

In our Acute & Crisis Inpatient services, we know that true recovery means treating the whole person. We're looking for a forward-thinking Band 7 Nurse (Adult or Dual Trained) to lead our physical health strategy, ensuring our patients receive the outstanding, integrated care they deserve.

This is your chance to:

• LEAD and develop a dedicated team of Physical Health Nurses (1x Band 6, 3x Band 4), working across our three main inpatient sites in Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich setting the highest standards for care.

• BE THE EXPERT, providing specialist advice and hands-on treatment for both long-term and acute physical health problems.

• SHAPE THE FUTURE of integrated care, working alongside our Practice Development Nurse to innovate and improve our services.

• DRIVE real change for our patients by championing their complete wellbeing.

If you’re a clinical leader who wants autonomy, impact, and the chance to mentor a growing team, this is the role for you.

Join us. Make a difference. Apply today.

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As our Physical Health Lead, you will be at the forefront of shaping exceptional integrated care. You will:

• Lead, Mentor & Develop: Provide expert clinical leadership to our physical health nursing team, managing everything from supervision and appraisals to recruitment and e-rostering.

• Drive Clinical Excellence: Take the lead on developing and implementing clinical policy, ensuring our services meet the highest standards for physical health care and treatment.

• Champion Best Practice: Support the wider multi-disciplinary team with physical health and infection prevention initiatives, and lead audits on the safe use of medical equipment.

• Empower Patients: Deliver vital health promotion and smoking cessation advice directly to patients and their carers, empowering them to take control of their wellbeing.

• Collaborate Strategically: Work with physical health leads across the Trust and the South London Partnership to support the delivery of our shared Nursing Strategy.

• Be a Valued Partner: Actively participate in a dedicated Physical Health Nursing group, contributing to your own development while supporting your peers.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care