About this role
Job summary
We are seeking a motivated and compassionate Band 6 Nurse Practitioner to join our Physical Health Monitoring Team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centred care to individuals with eating disorders who require close physical health monitoring.
You will work autonomously and alongside a Band 7 clinician to case manage high-risk patients, ensuring robust assessment, care planning and risk management. The role includes running clinics, completing physical observations (e.g. ECGs, venepuncture, BMI and vital signs), and undertaking home visits where required.
You will liaise closely with multidisciplinary teams, primary care and acute services, providing expert guidance and promoting recovery-focused care. Strong clinical decision-making, organisational skills and the ability to work under pressure are essential.
Applicants must be a registered Adult Nurse with experience in physical health monitoring and care planning. You will be committed to continuous professional development and delivering safe, effective and compassionate care.
Join us and make a meaningful difference to patient outcomes in a supportive, forward-thinking team.
Main duties of the job
Key duties include delivering high quality, person centred physical health monitoring for high risk patients within the Eating Disorders Service. The post holder will assess, plan and implement holistic care, including risk management, and jointly case manage unallocated high risk patients. Responsibilities include running and maintaining clinics, completing physical observations such as ECGs, venepuncture, vital signs, BMI and urinalysis, and undertaking home visits where required.
The role involves working autonomously, using advanced clinical reasoning to make decisions, recognise deterioration and escalate concerns appropriately. Effective communication and liaison with multidisciplinary teams, primary care and external agencies is essential to ensure coordinated care and appropriate referrals.
Additional duties include maintaining accurate clinical records, supporting and educating colleagues and partner services, ensuring equipment is safe and functional, and contributing to a positive team environment. The post holder will also support junior staff and students, adhere to professional standards, and engage in continuous professional development while promoting safe, recovery focused care.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered Nurse with current Registration (Adult Nurse, RNA). Evidence of continuous professional development.
Experience Essential
Up-to-date skills and experience in physical health monitoring. Experience of assessment and care planning with consideration of risk. Experience of effective liaison with other professionals and agencies. Good IT skills -- ability to utilise all electronic systems to record data. Ability to work autonomously. Ability to meet deadlines and to work under pressure. Aware of accountability and own role. Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment. Good knowledge of the NMC Code of Conduct.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address April House
9 Bath Road
Southampton
Hampshire
SO19 5ES
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)