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Job overview
Currently there are two Home Treatment Team within the Older Adult Service which the post holder will work across:
- Croydon Home Treatment Team based at the Bethlem Royal Hospital
- Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham (LSL) Home Treatment Team based at the Maudsley Hospital
The post holder will support the clinical team leader in providing clinical leadership and managerial oversight for the allocated caseload. They will support transfers across the Older Adult pathways taking a lead in clinical decision making
Main duties of the job
The post holder will deliver, and lead on the delivery of, high quality safe and contemporary care with the whole Older Adult Home Treatment service, ensuring consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence, including: promoting population health, improving personal outcomes, contributing towards service evaluation, while leading and developing research and quality improvement initiatives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Other
Essential
- Acts as a role model in the delivery of high quality, effective patient care.
- Able to cope under pressure and provide reassurance and direction to other staff members.
- Be a reflective practitioner and develop own competence and support others to do so.
- Ability to liaise with representatives from other organisations and to communicate a positive image of self and of the service/organisation.
Desirable
- Confident, respectful, self-reliant, aware of personal boundaries, resourceful, imaginative, enthusiastic
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of leading the delivery of care for a diverse population
- Advanced level understanding of specialist-specific disorders and their corresponding evidence-based interventions
- Contemporary knowledge of relevant legislation and healthcare policies
- Applied understanding of issues relating to confidentiality and mental capacity
- Applied knowledge of safeguarding, inclusion and equality
- Experience working within healthcare services at an advanced level of practice
Desirable
- Experience of writing for publication and/or presenting to professionals and the public
QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential
- First level professional nursing /AHP/Social Work qualification.
- Post-registration experience and/or evidence of formal courses and training at post graduate diploma level
Desirable
- Quality Improvement Methodology Training, e.g. LEAN
- Recognised Management or Leadership Qualification
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & ABILITIES
Essential
- Advanced skills in undertaking clinical & risk assessments, specific to the area of practice
- Advanced level written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage own workload / work autonomously and determine / set own priorities
- Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships
- Effective self/time management skills to practice as an independent practitioner
- Advanced problem solving skills
Desirable
- Skills in leading quality improvement initiatives.
- Project management skills
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This advert is for Advanced Practitioner with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Nurse practitioner role. The contract type is 6 months (Fixed term). The application deadline is 11 Aug 2026.
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