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Location
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 per annum, pro rota
Profession
Nurse practitioner
Grade
Band 7
Deadline
14 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent: Monday-Friday 9:00-17:00
Posted Date
30 Jun 2025

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the senior leadership of the Cambridge Locality Team as  an Advanced Practitioner.

You will be joining a service supporting working-age adults who have  severe affective and psychotic disorders. The team offers care-coordination, a daily duty service, psychiatric assessments, medication reviews, ongoing risk management, care planning, support around benefits and housing, family work & a wide variety of therapeutic interventions.

Recovery principles are embedded at the core of the locality teams & we aim to support people to reach their potential by facilitating hope, empowering autonomy and developing meaning and purpose in life.

Main duties of the job

As an Advanced Practitioner, you will play a pivotal role in delivering coordinated care to a defined caseload. You will provide clinical leadership within the Unplanned Care Team as well as across the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings, ensuring effective risk management, care planning, and clinical decision-making. You will work alongside the clinical manager to complete investigations, manage complaints and subject access requests.

You will support clinicians in managing complex cases, guide discharge planning, and promote smooth clinical throughput. A key part of your role will be fostering strong interfaces with other teams

In this role, you will demonstrate confident and effective leadership by chairing large, multi-agency meetings . You will lead on audits and quality improvement initiatives. A core part of your responsibilities will include delivering clinical supervision, conducting staff appraisals, and fostering professional development within the team.

You will also be involved in  ensuring that the service is a positive learning environment for students from various disciplines.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

  • To provide comprehensive assessment of mental health specific to the needs of service area.
  • To have experience of and specialist knowledge on interventions to be able to lead in clinical area.
  • To work in partnership with other agencies to gain the best person-centred outcome for the individual.
  • To be able to communicate with and meet the needs of families and carers as appropriate to the care group and individual client.
  • To ensure appropriate records of assessment and treatment are regularly maintained which adhere to professional guidelines, Trust Policy and recognised systems within the Locality Team.
  • To manage a caseload of clients with complex mental health needs and undertake case management/lead professional/as needed.
  • To participate in all clinical, business and service meetings as appropriate, to contribute to effective team functioning, service delivery and development.
  • To provide professional leadership within the service, working with Team Managers and Service Manager for the planning and delivering of team practice within the mental health teams and wider service delivery.
  • To develop and participate in the delivery of a clinical supervision structure for team members.
  • To use knowledge of practice development principles and strategies for the promotion of quality developments and efficient use of resource.
  • Promote and use evidence-based approaches to improve practice.Critically evaluates and applies research findings pertinent to patient care, team management and outcomes.

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website