Physical Health Clinic Nurse - Clozapine | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an experienced registered mental health or general nurse with a passion to improve the physical health of individuals with a mental illness?

Are you looking to further develop your skills and progress or gain experience at a senior band?

We are looking to recruit a senior nurse with a genuine interest in physical health working with service users within the mental health service. The successful candidate will be able to work in a fast paced environment and be able to work autonomously and as part of a well-established team within the health and well-being clinics.

Previous experience of working with service users prescribed Clozapine is desirable and an ability to act as a senior clinician within the Clozapine clinics.

The role will require the oversight and management of a very busy clinic, providing monitoring for the physical health of patients being prescribed Clozapine, there will also be times where you are required to carry out home visits so access to transport to complete duties of the role essential.

Extensive knowledge of running a clinic and managing clozapine medication is required, alongside physical health monitoring such as ECG's, Venepuncuture, Pochi Machine operation and escalation of physical health concerns to the appropriate teams.

This is a very busy area and part of a growing team.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

To coordinate the physical care of service users titrated and maintained on Clozapine and Lithium. To manage blood results and actions needed when results are outside normal parameters by following policy and national guidance. To escalate concerns around service users physical health to the MDT and primary care services if needed.

To offer ECG’s and Venepuncture to all service users using the clinic or referred into the clinicusing the policy guidance.

To ensure that the service user’s physical health care plan is developed to meet the assessedneed of the individual and that other staff are delivering care as laid down in the care plan. Toensure that all relevant information with regards to a service user’s care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record. Supervise and monitor the entriesmade by junior team members, through performance management and audit.

To liaise significant others when completing the assessment and treatment of care to the service user.

To direct other staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of physical care to service users.

To participate in setting physical health standards for care based on sound evidence based and research findings.

To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users that you haveresponsibility for with guidance from a supervisor.

To communicate with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the communication of any relevant information that has an impact on the service user’s physical care.

To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience toimpart sensitive information.

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