Advanced Clinical Practitioner
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Job overview
Are you a nurse or allied health professional with a MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or undergone an accredited portfolio route to Advanced Clinical Practice? If so, both the Blandford and Shaftesbury Adult Community Mental Health Teams are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join them.
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will be dynamic and highly motivated, with exceptional assessment, risk management, and care formulation skills. You will have experience working with adults with significant mental illness in a multidisciplinary setting. High communication skills, clinical decision-making, understanding of MHA, MCA and safeguarding legislation are essential in this role. You will also prescribe, offer senior clinical support to the team and triage referrals as they come in.
This post is full-time, working Monday to Friday 9:00 – 17:00, a job share would be considered of 18.75 hours. We also welcome discussions around flexible working. We have a post based with Blandford CMHT and another with Shaftesbury CMHT in the North Dorset locality and work closely with other clinical and operational leads across our other CMHTS. Being able to drive is essential for this role.
We welcome informal visits and discussions about the role, please contact Leanne Ballantyne, Integrated Community Mental Health Manager at [email protected]
We encourage applicants to visit our teams or contact Marianne Gillingham, Head of Secondary Mental Health.
Main duties of the job
You will undertake assessments, nurse reviews, and manage a small group of patients care. Also support carers while patients are under our care and signpost for ongoing support.
You will have a job plan to ensure that you work across the four advanced practice pillars.
You will work with other Community Mental Health Teams, social care and other agencies to benefit patients.
Lead as a driver for change, to monitor and improve standards through supervision, evidence based practice, clinical audit, research and education.
Plan and manage complete episodes of care; undertake independent comprehensive assessment and management of service users to incorporate pharmacological considerations; making complex clinical decisions regarding service user management and clinical outcomes.
Work strategically, contributing to the planning and development of integrated services.
Applications from candidates that require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are unfortunately ineligible to apply for this position.
Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of. Applicants who subscribe to the DBS update service are able to present a valid DBS certificate instead of requiring a new check.