Mental Health Depot and Clozapine NurseNHS
Job summary
This role is for a Band 5 Qualified Mental Health Nurse for a full time 37.5 hours over 5 days a week (working hours and days can be flexible in the hours of 9-5 Monday to Friday)
The role will be based at the Bromsgrove Neighbourhood Community Mental Health team, which is a growing and dynamic team with a range of multi-disciplinary professionals with a wide range of knowledge and skills to welcome the new applicant for this role into the well establish and friendly team to ensure you feel welcome and empowered to take on a great opportunity within the team.
Do you want to be able to demonstrate and develop your autonomous skills as well as some leadership skills around leading on the depot, clozapine and physical health checks for the team, helping support other staff that can undertake and support in this role, being able to have the oversight of the clinics that are being ran as well as completing them yourself as part of the job role/description.
Are you enthusiastic and able to incorporate the trust values into a new innovative role for the team to lead on depot clinics, clozapine and physical health clinics then this role is just for you.
Main duties of the job
Be the lead on Clozapine, Depot and physical health clinics.
Administer depot injections to all of the patients open to the team for depot medications this will include administering in our on-site clinic room or some may need outreach where you administer out in the community in patients homes for those that may not be able to come to a trust base for their medication to be administered.
Job description
Clozapine clinic will entail the post holder to undertake 4 weekly blood monitoring for those patients that are on Clozapine medication, continual monitoring and ordering of the regular clozapine medication for patients, there may be some patients that have been on an inpatient ward and started on Clozapine or re titrated so may need weekly blood monitoring in line with our clozapine blood monitoring policy for up to 14 weeks to then reduce to fortnightly and eventually 4 weekly if all blood results are in range and safe to reduce to 4 weekly.
Conduct regular weekly physical health clinics for patients under the service that require physical health checks which includes bloods, ECGs, height weight and BMI checks to ensure we are checking patients especially on anti-psychotic medications, Depots and clozapine are having yearly checks for physical health.
Reporting the physical health checks back to the GP and if any have any concerns with physical health IE Blood pressure concerns, raise accordingly within the team but also the GP to continue to monitor if any blood pressure concerns needing further investigation/treatment through the GP in primary care.
You may also be required to support other colleagues in the team on two person visits, you will not be holding a caseload but would be expected to help and support other colleague in the team on two person visits if required.
For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
About us
At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.
We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.
What we offer;
- 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
- Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
- Flexible and agile working opportunities
- Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
- Wide range of supportive staff networks
- Health and wellbeing opportunities
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