Mental Health Depot and Clozapine Nurse

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

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Job summary

Join our team, we pride ourselves in providing outstanding care to patients across Herefordshire and Worcestershire. We will provide you with resources to develop and progress a long-term career as well as flexibility, continual professional development as well as a wide range of wellbeing and support.

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.
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.
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.
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.

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

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

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Date posted

27 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

C9798-1118

Job locations

Newbrook

Stourbridge Road

Bromsgrove

B61 0BB

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

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 Mental Health Nurse with NMC
I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Skills and abilities

Essential

Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
Ability to work alone and as a member of a team.
Ability to recognize own limits.

Knowledge

Essential

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

Experience

Essential

One years experience working with people with mental health (this can be pre-qualification experience)

Desirable

Venepuncture trained

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Mental Health Nurse with NMC
I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Skills and abilities

Essential

Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
Ability to work alone and as a member of a team.
Ability to recognize own limits.

Knowledge

Essential

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

Experience

Essential

One years experience working with people with mental health (this can be pre-qualification experience)

Desirable

Venepuncture trained

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).