Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our dedicated At-Risk Mental State (ARMS) Service in North Kent. In this role, you will be a key clinical leader within our specialist early intervention pathway, delivering high-quality assessments, formulations, and holistic interventions when they matter most.
As a senior clinician, you won't just manage a caseload, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and developing the service. You will provide clinical leadership, mentor junior colleagues, and collaborate across agencies to ensure our service users receive high-quality, personal care.
What You’ll Do
Your role is dynamic and varied, structured around the four core pillars of advanced practice:
- Expert Clinical Practice (70% Focus): Lead complex clinical assessments, develop comprehensive formulations, and utilize your skills as an Independent Prescriber to deliver holistic, evidence-based treatments.
- Professional Leadership & Consultancy: Act as a clinical role model, strengthening professional leadership within the team and supporting the growth and practice of junior clinicians.
- Education, Training & Development: Foster a culture of continuous learning by sharing your expertise and mentoring colleagues across the multidisciplinary landscape.
- Service Development & Innovation: Drive the quality of our care forward through clinical audits, service evaluations, and practice development initiatives.
Main duties of the job
Who You’ll Work With
You will be an integral part of supportive, collaborative and highly skilled multidisciplinary team (MDT) that includes Nurses, Doctors, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, and dedicated non-registered healthcare professionals. We pride ourselves on a supportive culture where every voice is valued, working together within defined clinical standards to achieve the best outcomes for North Kent.
- Carry out and coordinate comprehensive, systematic holistic assessments which take account of relevant mental, physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual, and environmental factors, in partnership with service user and others through interaction, observation and measurement.
- Work collaboratively with other disciplines, service user and their carers to formulate and agree a holistic person-centred care plan that addresses the needs identified through assessment.
- Deliver and evaluate safe, person centred care in partnership with the service user and their carers to support recovery.
- Act as a clinical leader supporting the development of best practice in line with trust policy and NICE guidance.
- Facilitate and review approved Quality Improvement initiatives within the care setting
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
Essential
- Current NMC registration ACP, MSc
- Clinical assessment and formulation skills in acute mental health practice
- Mentorship qualification
- Extensive post qualifying experience
- Experience of successfully resolving complex problems
- Experience of working in an acute mental health setting
- Experience of working in a range of mental health setting
- Experience of Research, evaluation, development and quality improvement approaches
- Ability to produce mental health reports e.g. MHA Tribunal reports
- Highly developed communication, influencing and negotiating skills
- Organisational and presentation skills
- Knowledge of clinical governance processes and how they underpin care delivery
- Knowledge of national and local NHS healthcare agenda and its implications.
- Knowledge of mental health legislation (MHA, MCA/DOLs)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Knowledge of disorders/ complexities prevalent acute mental health care
Desirable
- Management and leadership experience; Teaching experience; Experience in service development; Experience of working in an inpatient setting
- Diagnostic reasoning; Knowledge of research/audit processes and application in practice; Management of patients with complex needs; Knowledge of research/audit processes and application in practice; Management of patients with complex needs
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