Assistant Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Advert - Islington Clozapine Clinic

The 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

We are seeking an experienced band 4 practitioner to join our service to deliver the aims above

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

- record outcomes on the electronic patient monitoring record system

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

- appointments
- 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

- record outcomes on the electronic patient monitoring record system

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

- appointments
- new referrals
- liaise with community teams/GP's

Maintain a clean environment in accordance health and safety regulations

- support community teams with physical health related issues affecting service users as an extended role
- other extended duties related to the clozapine clinic

Coordinating nights

Updating risk assessments

One to one sessions

Mentoring Students