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Clozapine Community Physical Health Nurse | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	09 January 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	08 February 2025
Location:	Liverpool, L13 4AW
Company:	Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	6890652/350-MHC6890652

Summary

We are excited to announce that due to the expansion of the Community Clozapine Titration Team (CCTT) we are recruiting an additional band 6 registered nurse. The post is open to both mental health nurses and general adult nurses with a current registration. This is an excellent opportunity to become part of a highly-skilled team to facilitate the expansion and development of our current community clozapine service Trust wide.

Band 5 to 6 development opportunities will be considered for candidates with the appropriate experience and skills.

Previous applicants need not apply



The role requires the successful candidate to complete physical health assessment and side-effect monitoring during clozapine initiation/re-titration.

The role will be both community and clinic based dependent on service need.

The CCTT works closely with our community mental health teams (CMHTs) and in-patient services to facilitate community titration/re-titration, early discharge support and support/advice to our neighbouring acute Trusts. The service is operational Monday to Sunday 9-9pm . Shifts available include; 9am to 9pm, 9am to 5pm and 1pm to 9pm, again this will be dependent on service need. The service is a nurse-led and provides high-quality evidence-based care.

Furthermore, the team also provides clozapine teaching/training sessions to university students and Merseycare Foundation Trust staff. Comprehensive training will be provided for the successful candidate, however, knowledge of clozapine initiation/re-titration will be an advantage.

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. 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 clinic using the policy guidance.

To ensure that the service user’s physical health care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that other staff are delivering care as laid down in the care plan. To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service user’s care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record. 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 and up to date guidance for clozapine titration and re-titration.

To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users that you have responsibility 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 to impart sensitive information.

To check understanding of information where there are often barriers to effective communications due to distress, mental state or where English is not the first language.

To use skills gained through training and experience to give and receive information to other individuals with regards to a service users care in the reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings. These individuals may be external to the Trust.

To take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that the Trust policies and procedures and the Nursing & Midwifery Councils regulations are adhered to.

To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service users care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record. To supervise and monitor the entries made by unqualified staff.

To under the guidance of a supervisor provide reports both in written and verbal formats as requested e.g. for a service user multi disciplinary team meeting or CPA review.

To contribute to teaching sessions in order to pass on knowledge and skills.

To ensure that all incidents or near misses are documented as per Trust policy and that any follow up action is taken.

To actively participate in service user reviews ensuring that service user needs are met and that the team has all the relevant information on which to base their clinical decisions.

To develop care plans that enable service users to reach and maintain their optimum level of health and well-being to help them to obtain their optimum health.

To react pro-actively in cases of service user physical health crisis and put in place immediate plans to resolve the situation with supervision and guidance as appropriate.

To assist in the assessment and supervision of nursing and other students.

To assess and monitor the physical health of service users, seeking advice and support from medical staff as appropriate.

To actively participate in team meetings in order to positively influence team working and the development of research based practice.

To participate in the induction of new staff.

To maintain safe custody of medicines, sharps and other clinical equipment.

To manage own time and workload, prioritising work appropriately.


This advert closes on Sunday 26 Jan 2025