Health Promotion Nurses/HCAs for Community NHS Health Checks
Are you passionate about health promotion and disease prevention?
Do you want to help reduce health inequalities in the community?
We are the leading provider of Community NHS Health Check events, targeting disadvantaged and hard-to-reach users.
We are now recruiting for Nurses and HCAs with health promotion knowledge to join this nurse-led service to deliver the checks and give appropriate lifestyle advice.
Benefits include, contract opportunities, continuing professional development, flexible hours and incentive schemes. Full training will be given.
Job Specification
- Conduct health checks, finger prick sampling, BP readings, body measurements in community settings
- Communicating patients' their risk of developing a chronic condition
- Help patients to understand how lifestyle changes could reduce their health risks
- Encourage patients to commit to lifestyle changes and accept referrals to lifestyle programmes
- Refer patients as necessary to GP, walk-in centres or A&E
- Comply with all procedures to ensure patients receive a quality service in a non-clinical setting
- Collaborate with consultants, psychologists, public health leads, commissioners and other nurses to enhance the service
- Contact patients and GP practices in the future for audit and research purposes
- Understand issues of patient confidentiality
Experience
- Registered nurse or Healthcare Assistant
- Passionate interest in helping patients to improve their health through lifestyle change
- Worked on community health check or screening programmes or enthusiastic about learning about this
- Good understanding of the risk factors that contribute to chronic conditions, (e.g. cardiovascular disease, COPD, diabetes), and how risk can be reduced and conditions managed through lifestyle change
- Provided lifestyle advice to patients with chronic conditions e.g. smoking cessation, weight loss
- Positive, calm, detailed, thorough and reliable with empathetic listening and communication skills
- Awareness of behaviour change techniques