Advanced Nurse PractitionerNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our multidisciplinary team and play a key role in delivering high-quality, recovery-focused mental health care.

The successful candidate will provide expert clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management for individuals with complex mental health needs, exercising a high degree of autonomy, clinical judgement, decision-making and professional discretion. You will be responsible for delivering safe, effective and person-centred care, promoting recovery and ensuring high standards of support for service users, their families and carers.

We are looking for a motivated and compassionate practitioner with excellent communication, assessment and risk management skills, who can work effectively both independently and as part of a team. Flexibility is essential to meet the needs of the service and support the delivery of responsive, high-quality care.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a progressive service committed to continuous improvement, professional development and delivering outstanding outcomes for people experiencing mental health difficulties. If you are passionate about advanced clinical practice and making a positive difference to patients, families and carers, we would welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

• Provide specialist assessment, advice on interventions and treatment plans for service users presenting with mental ill-health within the Older Adult areas.
• Provide advanced clinical skills and advice demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to the identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of service users who have mental ill-health.
• Lead on innovations and improvements to standards of care through development of care pathways, provision of clinical supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence-based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and the delivery of skilled clinical leadership.
• Act in accordance with NMC standards and be accountable for own clinical practice and professional actions and omissions at all times. Retain clinical competency ensuring your skills are up-to-date and relevant to the role.
• Lead on implementation of research into practice and participate in relevant audits and research studies to aid development of the evidence base and to contribute to clinical governance.
• Exercise advanced level immediate problem solving and decision-making skills and contribute to long term planning for future developments both within the immediate clinical area, Trust and local health economy.

Job description

• Provide complex mental health assessments, diagnosis and formulations using highly developed clinical knowledge and skills.
• Role model standards of care and behaviour through clinical practice, in line with Trust values.
• Develop, deliver, review and evaluate specific and relevant specialist teaching programmes for all disciplines and grade of staff, client group and carers within the Trust in relation to the area of expertise.
• Evaluate clinical practice through clinical audit of service, developing and managing strategies to address shortfalls.

About us

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.