Assistant Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Advert - Islington Clozapine ClinicThe clozapine clinic is a service run to ensure the following aims:
- to promote safety, concordance, physical health and to reduce the risks that are associated with taking clozapine
- To ensure service users physical health is regularly monitored alongside side effect monitoring
- To manage, in conjunction with the Clozaril Patient Monitoring Service (CPMS) and pharmacy that the blood testing and monitoring to enable a continued supply of clozapine for service users initiated/already established on clozapine.
- To provide a specialist comprehensive and supportive service to the wider multidisciplinary teams to support service users who are prescribed clozapine within the Trust.
- To offer safer administration and monitoring of olanzapine depots in line with existing Trust Policy
Details of the Band 4 post and specifications are outlined within the job description and person specification.
Clozapine Clinic
- The assistant practitioner will support the service to provide a therapeutic, warm, trauma informed environment where service users will feel welcome
- Perform physical health examinations and monitoring
- Respond to crisis
- Run the clozapine clinic Poachie machine
- Respond to physical health anomalies that may impact on patients well wellbeing
- Arrange emergency bloods
- Support queries from other services
- new referrals
- liaise with community teams/GP's
Band 4
Your verbal, written and IT skill are expected to be of a very high standard.
Clozapine Clinic
- The assistant practitioner will support the service to provide a therapeutic, warm, trauma informed environment where service users will feel welcome
- Perform physical health examinations and monitoring
- Respond to crisis
- Run the clozapine clinic Poachie machine
- Respond to physical health anomalies that may impact on patients well wellbeing
- Arrange emergency bloods
- Support queries from other services
- new referrals
- liaise with community teams/GP's
- Maintain a clean environment in accordance health and safety regulations
- other extended duties related to the clozapine clinic
Coordinating nights
Updating risk assessments
One to one sessions
Mentoring Students
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