Job overview
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Advanced Clinical Practitioner – Crisis Care Service to join the Crisis care Team.
Band 8a - permanent, full time hours
We will consider applicants with CAMHS experience outside of an ACP role
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our Home Based Treatment and Intensive Support Teams.
The post-holder will:
- provide leadership in relation to clinical operational issues in respect of the Crisis Care, Home Based Treatment and Intensive Support Teams, and will demonstrate substantial clinical leadership, innovation and independence in a professional context and have the ability to problem solve.
- provide highly specialised mental health assessment and short term therapeutic interventions for children and young people experiencing mental health crisis.
- have clinical responsibility for complex therapeutic and risk management work with children and young people who are at risk of needing care away from their homes or local community.
- offer advice and consultation to other professionals across a range of agencies including: primary care, social care, and education.
- provide supervision to team members.
- be responsible for the care planning of interventions and have oversight of the delivery of the care plans by junior staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, please take a look at the job description and person specification attachments. - The post holders must be able to demonstrate a positive attitude which encompasses our Trust Values of excellence, innovation, openness, respect and together. - If you are enthusiastic and confident with a friendly and outgoing manner, and a focus on providing the best possible service to patients we would like to hear from you.
Person specification
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Demonstrates the ability to make sound judgments and generate new ideas in complex situations.
- Able to work autonomously
- Committed to continuing professional development
- Accountable for own professional actions
- Works within professional ethics and Trust policies
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Assertively engage young people, families and carers.
- To demonstrate a non- discriminatory attitude regarding race, gender and disability issues.
- Demonstrate commitment to user participation
- Demonstrate a positive attitude.
- Demonstrates skills to contribute to modernisation across a range of diverse services
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to motivate and enthuse colleagues
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to respond effectively to multiple priorities
Qualifications, Experience and Training
Essential
- Qualified in core profession (nursing, OT, SW, Psychologist) with appropriate registration
- Intermediate or diploma level in a recognised therapeutic modality.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Evidence of substantial post qualification competence, incorporating significant experience working within CAMHS at a senior level
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of providing consultation/teaching/ training
- Experience of working with children and young people with ASD and/or LD - and their families and carers
- Experience of clinical supervision
- Experience of leading on developing, delivering and evaluating evidence based clinical care packages.
- MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice.
- V300 – Non-Medical Prescribing Course (or will undertake)
Desirable
- Relevant post graduate qualification in Mental Health related field
- Experience of providing services across traditional services.
- Experience of managing and/or leading on service developments.
- Experience of managing staff.
- Project Management experience
- Effectively managing policy implementation and demonstrable service development work
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This advert is for Advanced Clinical Practitioner Crisis Care, HBT & IST with Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, North West, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 Per annum. The contract type is Permanent: Although the service runs 7 days a week, the post holder will not be required to work weekends or nights. The application deadline is 24 Jun 2026.
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