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Senior Mental Health Depot & Clozapine Nurse

Employer
Herefordshire & Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
Location
Hereford
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year
Closing date
11 Nov 2024
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Profession
Nurse
Grade
Band 6
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Registered Mental Health Nurse to join our Depot and Clozapine Clinic within Hereford City. You will be part of a smaller clinic team while working within the Hereford City Neighbourhood Team.

The role will be working with the existing depot/clozapine clinic team to facilitate in the administration and supervision of long acting injections. Within the Clozapine, Depot and Physical health clinics you will be responsible for ensuring that all clinical records and data collection is recorded and collected by the team. You will also be responsible in ensuring that the needs of those with a mental health diagnosis are met.

The role will include the supervision of staff as well as providing a learning opportunity for junior staff and students.

The team works within a multi-disciplinary service and the role will be varied and will offer opportunities to work with service users suffering from a range of serious mental illnesses and dual diagnoses.

We will provide you with resources to develop and progress a long term career as well as flexibility, continual professional development, supervision as well as a wide range of wellbeing and support. If you would like to discuss informally if this is the right role for you, get in touch with Recruiting Manager which can be found on the top right-hand side of the advert.

Main duties of the job

  • To provide a comprehensive, accessible and responsive mental health services to adults within the local area.
  • To deliver physical health interventions to patients under the service inclusive of phlebotomy.
  • To participate in the daily management of a depot/clozapine clinic.
  • To administer long acting injections and facilitate clozapine monitoring.
  • To ensure a roster system is in place for the clinics
  • To continually develop clinical, team and service evaluation and delivery of the service.
  • To ensure that Outcome measures are collected to inform improvements.
  • To contribute to effective multi-disciplinary working within the CMHT and build effective liaison with community, primary and other secondary and tertiary services and agencies within the area.
  • To meet the changing demands of the service as required.


  • 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. Its why we were named Large Apprenticeship Employer of the Year award at the 2022 Worcestershire Apprenticeship Awards. 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 staff networks such as LGBT+ and ENRICH (Equality Network for Race Inclusion and Cultural Heritage)

    Health service discounts and online benefits including excellent cycle to work and car salary sacrifice schemes

    Health and wellbeing opportunities

    If you would like to know more, please visit our careers website.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    The post holder will be clinically responsible delivery of a flexible, responsive local service within a Neighbourhood Mental Health team.

    The post holder will work collaboratively with colleagues, key partners and those within the local community to develop services to meet the mental health needs of the community. The post holder will communicate with people with a range of mental health needs, to provide and receive complex, sensitive information to people where there are barriers to understanding.

    The post holder will employ a wide range of skills, building on and developing their expertise and actively seeking advice and collaboration with the Team Manager where issues which may not be readily resolved. As a registered practitioner you are professionally and legally accountable under the NMC code of professional practice

    For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

    • Registered NMC Nurse
    • Venepuncture training
    • Recent evidence of continuing professional development
    • I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer


    Desirable

    • NMP qualification
    • Teaching / training qualification


    Knowledge

    Essential

    • Knowledge of current mental health issues
    • Knowledge of risk assessment
    • Knowledge of Common medications


    Desirable

    • Knowledge of Clozapine and depot management
    • Knowledge of Physical health checks


    Skills & Abilities

    Essential

    • Ability to analyse and undertake a core mental health assessment
    • Formulate, plan, implement and evaluate care
    • Ability to ensure physical health needs are screened, monitored and appropriately responded to
    • Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues, key partners and those within the local community to develop services to meet the mental health needs of the community


    Experience

    Essential

    • Experience of working in a Mental Health setting
    • Assessment of people presenting with mental health problems
    • Assessment and management of clinical risk
    • Working within a multidisciplinary team
    • Managing clinic case load


    Desirable

    • Use and knowledge of excel spreadsheets and work documents
    • Skilled in the provision of clinical supervision to both peers and junior members of staff
    • Experience of Clozapine management


    Additional Criteria

    Essential

    • High quality holistic approach to the care and support provided to clients in the community who have been identified as in need of community nurse support to enable them to exercise choice over their own lives


    Employer details

    Employer name

    Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

    Address

    Unit D

    178 Widemarsh Street

    Hereford

    HR4 9HN

    Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

    C9798-0855

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