# Consultant Nurse and NMP Lead for Physical/Mental Health Services > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-nurse-and-nmp-lead-for-physicalmental-health-services/2cc5d1bd-23c6-495d-8a7d-a531a791d285 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-nurse-and-nmp-lead-for-physicalmental-health-services/2cc5d1bd-23c6-495d-8a7d-a531a791d285.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Stafford - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-26T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-01T15:28:34.277Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Staffordshire/Burslem/Midlands_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Consultant_Nurse_Medicines_Optimisation/Consultant_Nurse_Medicines_Optimisation-v8022969 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8022969?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.mpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is unique in combining physical and mental health, learning disability, community and adult social care services in a single Trust across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent and Shropshire supporting the provision of a truly integrated care framework across health and social care services. As Consultant Nurse, you will provide clinical and professional leadership to enable the delivery of the Trust Medicines Optimisation strategy and work effectively across all four pillars of consultant practice (expert clinical practice, leadership, education and research). The post holder will be an autonomous clinical practitioner leading on the provision of expert practice in medicines optimisation ensuring better value and improved patient outcomes. The post holder will lead on developing and delivering multi-disciplinary advanced clinical practice and research, prescribing competence, quality, and safety supporting multiple professional disciplines across the organisation. In conjunction with the Trust Medicines Safety officer, you will lead on embedding the principles of medicines safety and medicines optimisation into clinical practice and contribute to policy developments to support safe practice. MPFT Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Directorate are looking for a dynamic, forward thinking Clinical Leader. ### Main duties of the job As a senior member of the clinical team, you will be expected to represent the Trust and participate in relevant local, regional and national sector wide forums related to non-medical prescribing and medicines optimisation. You will provide expert advice, clinical supervision and training to the non-medical prescribing workforce and partner organisations and have an opportunity to contribute to research and development projects within the service. This role will be extremely rewarding, and requires a motivated, dynamic individual who is experienced in working at an operational level with a range of stakeholders and a track record for service development and delivering to agreed targets. The successful candidate will be provided with the support of a well-established team, opportunities to develop and embed their careers, and to make a difference to patients' lives. You will be a qualified nurse registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council with excellent leadership and communication skills and have previous experience in education, training, quality improvement and policy development. The postholder is expected to deliver clinical care for at least 25% of their job plan with remaining time dedicated to leadership, education and training, quality improvement and research. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Nurse Consultant and NMP Lead for Medicines Optimisation Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification attached ## Job Details Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is unique in combining physical and mental health, learning disability, community and adult social care services in a single Trust across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent and Shropshire supporting the provision of a truly integrated care framework across health and social care services. As Consultant Nurse, you will provide clinical and professional leadership to enable the delivery of the Trust Medicines Optimisation strategy and work effectively across all four pillars of consultant practice (expert clinical practice, leadership, education and research). The post holder will be an autonomous clinical practitioner leading on the provision of expert practice in medicines optimisation ensuring better value and improved patient outcomes. The post holder will lead on developing and delivering multi-disciplinary advanced clinical practice and research, prescribing competence, quality, and safety supporting multiple professional disciplines across the organisation. In conjunction with the Trust Medicines Safety officer, you will lead on embedding the principles of medicines safety and medicines optimisation into clinical practice and contribute to policy developments to support safe practice. MPFT Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Directorate are looking for a dynamic, forward thinking Clinical Leader. ## Job Description As a senior member of the clinical team, you will be expected to represent the Trust and participate in relevant local, regional and national sector wide forums related to non-medical prescribing and medicines optimisation. You will provide expert advice, clinical supervision and training to the non-medical prescribing workforce and partner organisations and have an opportunity to contribute to research and development projects within the service. This role will be extremely rewarding, and requires a motivated, dynamic individual who is experienced in working at an operational level with a range of stakeholders and a track record for service development and delivering to agreed targets. The successful candidate will be provided with the support of a well-established team, opportunities to develop and embed their careers, and to make a difference to patients' lives. You will be a qualified nurse registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council with excellent leadership and communication skills and have previous experience in education, training, quality improvement and policy development. The postholder is expected to deliver clinical care for at least 25% of their job plan with remaining time dedicated to leadership, education and training, quality improvement and research. ## Responsibilities Nurse Consultant and NMP Lead for Medicines Optimisation Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification attached ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Provide leadership by setting a clear direction in service planning and leading discussions on the requirements to meet a safe, innovative, modern and high-quality service - Knowledge of various approaches to physical/mental health assessment ### Experience **Essential** - Significant and in-depth post qualifying clinical experience - Evidence of working effectively at a senior level in a multi-disciplinary health and social care setting ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Nurse with current NMC registration according to the field of practice - Masters level qualification (Level 7) in advanced clinical practice or equivalent qualification ## Documents - [benefits booklet (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2957) - [nurse consultant and nmp lead in medicines optimisation (pdf, 928.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10309555) - [nurse consultant and nmp lead in medicines optimisation (pdf, 992.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10309556) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.