Clozapine Community Mental Health Nurse

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a dedicated Clozapine Mental Health Nurse to join its innovative tri-borough service. This role involves monitoring the health of patients prescribed clozapine, leading clinics, and collaborating with various healthcare teams to deliver integrated care in the community and inpatient settings.

Benefits

Supportive line management and clinical supervision

Opportunities for service development

Collaborative team environment

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with mental health registration.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Experience working alongside people with complex health problems.

Responsibilities

• Monitor patients' mental and physical health.
• Coordinate the running of clozapine clinics.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Communication

Medication management

Organisational skills

IT skills

Phlebotomy skills

Mental health assessment skills

Physical health assessment skills

Education

Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult]

Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent

Further professional qualifications

Job description

Location: Primarily based in H& F (0.6 WTE ) & Ealing (0.4 wte), with occasional support in Hounslow (the role is a split role)Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week (split role) (secondment - 12months )

Are you a passionate and proactive mental health nurse looking to make a real difference in the lives of patients with complex needs? We are looking for a committed Clozapine Mental Health Nurse to join our innovative and supportive tri-borough Clozapine Service, covering Ealing, Hammersmith, and Hounslow occasionally.

About the Role:As a key member of the Clozapine Service, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality care and physical health monitoring for patients prescribed clozapine--both in the community and inpatient settings. You'll help coordinate and lead clozapine clinics, liaising closely with patients, carers, community teams, GPs, inpatient units, and Consultant Psychiatrists.

What You'll Do:? Monitor patients' mental and physical health? Coordinate and support the running of clozapine clinics? Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to ensure seamless care? Deliver a broad range of physical health checks and interventions? Support service development alongside the Clozapine Team Manager and

Main duties of the job

What We Offer:

• Supportive line management and clinical supervision
• Collaborative team environment including nurses, phlebotomists, and senior leads
• Opportunities for service development and innovation
• A chance to contribute to the long-term integration of physical and mental health care within MINT (Mental health Integrated Network Teams)

Who We're Looking For:You are a compassionate, organised, and skilled mental health nurse with experience or interest in psychopharmacology, physical health monitoring, and multi-agency collaboration. You thrive in a team setting and are committed to delivering person-centered care.

Join us and help shape the future of Clozapine care across our boroughs!Apply today and be part of a team that's making a lasting impact on mental health.

About us

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.

Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.

The Trust is rated as 'Good' overallby the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as 'Outstanding'.

The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.

Job responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current registration [mental health/LD/Adult], appropriate to the job role
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Completion of Mentorship Course/ENB equivalent
• Further professional qualifications
• Phlebotomy training

Experience

• Experience of working alongside people with complex health problems in the designated care group
• Experience of supervising staff
• Experience of managing a caseload
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems
• Experience of working consultatively with professionals
• Experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
• Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non statutory teams and agencies
• Experience of working within the CPA process or new systems for working within shared care and enhanced in Mental health services.
• Previous experience of working in the community
• Contribute to the implementation of services.
• Lived experience of mental health issues

Knowledge

• Understanding of clinical governance
• Knowledge and understanding of the principles of recovery and their application to risk management, positive risk taking and strengths orientated approaches to care delivery.
• Knowledge of MHA and governance structures
• Experience of working in Inpatient area.

Skills

• IT skills, using clinical documentation systems, spreadsheets, Email systems and electronic calendar.
• Writing skills- writing patient notes on electronic documentation, writing emails to colleagues
• Communication skills- able to communicate information to patient's colleagues and other services. Able to listen and provide adaptable verbal responses.
• Medication management Skills, drug calculations, administering correct medication to right patient. Side effect assessment skills and ability to take appropriate action.
• Physical health assessment skills. Able to use physical health equipment (Blood pressure machine, BM machine, etc). Able to document physical health results and act on physical health concerns with awareness of the parameters of physical health (blood pressure, Blood sugar, Lipids, BMI etc) and escalation actions
• Mental health assessment skills - able to complete a mental state examination and assess mental health and support needs of patients and refer to appropriate services.
• Able to work with diverse patient groups including patients from BAME backgrounds.
• Organisational skills - able to organise clinics, involving appointments to administer clozapine medication to patients, Able to prioritise and make arrangements for when patients have missed appointments.
• Skills of personal resilience. Knowledge of how to manage personal stress. Awareness to share concerns in supervision. Ability to maintain a healthy work/life balance and maintain personal wellbeing, requesting and accessing support when needed.
• Phlebotomy skills able to take bloods from patients and send for analysis
• Able to use clozapine clinic equipment effectively, including machinery used to analyse blood results, maintain
• maintenance of this equipment and report concerns

Other Requirements

• Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust
• The ability to multi task and mental adaptation to different unpredictable situations
• Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust
• Role models high standard of professional qualities e.g. punctuality and due diligence, honesty, responsibility, compassion
• Respectful to others. Able to discuss issues calmly and constructively

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.

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum plus HCAS