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