Job summary
Employer heading
Nurse - Band 5 Clozapine & Physical Health Nurse (developmental to B6)
NHS AfC: Band 5
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.
Across the whole of the region we provide:
- Adult and older adult mental health services
- Specialist learning disability services
- Mental health services for children and young people
- Community healthcare services for children, young people and families in Dudley
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, with the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.
We currently employ over 3,500 people and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds. Whatever your role, working in a NHS Foundation Trust, like ours, is a demanding and extremely rewarding experience. Knowing that every day you can help to make a positive difference to someone’s life is a very powerful feeling. We know that our Trust runs on this desire to help and support people, and our Trust vision expresses this. Our vision is to improve health and wellbeing for everyone, especially our colleagues to achieve the best possible work/life balance.
We proudly offer supportive, inclusive and family friendly employment and flexible working policies. We have a wide range of professional services and employee networks to help our colleagues be at their best - and find support if they need it. To find more about our staff benefits, please visit our website: blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and ethnic minority candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Black Country Healthcare we recognise and value all forms of knowledge and expertise, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification or criteria in the job description/person specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For further supporting information to help you apply for this role please see documents attached under ‘Additional documents’.
Job overview
This is a new specialist Physical Health Team expanding and developing within Adult Community Mental Health Services in Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
The Trust is currently undergoing a Community Transformation Programme to improve the physical health outcomes for our patients with direction and standards issued by the Care Quality Commission, NHS England and NICE guidelines.
You will undertake cardio-metabolic monitoring in Out-patient Clinics and complete home visits.
Main duties of the job
The role of Band 5 Clozapine & Physical Health Nurse is to run Out-patient Clinics and home visits to undertake annual cardio-metabolic physical health checks for patients on Clozapine, Lithium, or High-dose Antipsychotics. You will monitor physiological measurements, complete ECG’s and take bloods (training will be provided). You will support a one-stop Clozapine Clinic, ensuring correct monitoring for all Clozapine patients; blood analysing, physical observations and side effect monitoring. Clozapine CPMS training will be provided.
We are seeking skilled, reflective and adaptable clinicians (RMN or RGN) who are able to form good working relationships and will further embed best practice, ensuring parity of esteem to adults with SMI difficulties.
You will be flexible, creative, adaptable and will be committed to working in partnership with patients, promoting the independence and recovery working alongside the MDT and primary care network. You must have excellent communication skills and a genuine interest in improving the physical health for patients. You should be able to form good working relationships with the multi-disciplinary team to deliver a safe, high quality and effective service. You will provide support and supervision to other members of the team.
This is a development post, supervision and training provided to enable you to complete the Trust competency framework. On successful completion, following a min of 12mths the Band 5 will be uplifted to Band 6.
Working for our organisation
The Physical Health Team is a unique specialist team, who have a strong work ethics; are dedicated, positive and hard working. Team work is our strength and our passion is to deliver high quality care and with a supportive work environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide support, advice, care management and structured interventions to service users who present with physical health issues secondary to severe and enduring mental health problems within a team based approach.
- To provide a high standard of delivery of care within the Physical Health and Clozapine Clinics including the monitoring of patients on Lithium and High dose antipsychotics
- To work under supervision of a Senior Nurse, as a professional member of the nursing team within the Core Community Service setting.
- The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and will be required to teach nursing and non-nursing staff including basic and post basic students.
- The post holder will assist the Clozapine and Physical Health Team Manager in developing and maintaining the quality of the department, including monitoring high standards of client care and developing areas of clinical excellence / best practice and a therapeutic & caring culture.
Person specification
Essential/Desirable
Essential criteria
- RMN/RGN
- Experience of working with people within area of speciality
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to prioritise workload
- Awareness of the importance of the promotion of physical health care with patient group
- Trained or willing to undertake the training in Venepuncture
- Trained or willing to undertake POCHI training
- Trained or willing to undertake ECG monitoring
- Commitment / Genuine interest of client group within area of speciality
Desirable criteria
- Full Driving Licence
- Ability to support and supervise staff
- Knowledge of Clozaril / Lithium and high dose anti psychotic medication monitoring
- Experience of measuring and recording physiological measurements in routine presentations with service users
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Wealthall
- Job title
- Interim Clozapine & Physical Health Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 543 4184
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