Mental Health ACP (Advanced Clinical Practitioner)

Job overview

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient’s future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Mental Health) you will be providing high-level, autonomous clinical care within prison healthcare settings across HMP Portland and HMP The Verne.

This is a predominantly clinical role, requiring the post holder to work independently, exercising advanced clinical judgement in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, medication management and risk management of people with complex mental health needs within custodial environments.

The post holder will act as a senior clinical decision-maker within prisons, providing expert input to multidisciplinary and primary care teams, and responding to escalated clinical and risk concerns where complexity, acuity or uncertainty exceeds the scope of routine services. The role is not primarily managerial and does not hold day-to-day service management accountability.

Clinical time will be shared flexibly across HMP Portland and HMP The Verne, based on clinical demand and risk, ensuring equitable access to senior clinical expertise across the prison estate.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provide advanced, autonomous mental health assessment, formulation and treatment for individuals within HMP Portland and HMP The Verne.
• Act as a senior clinical decision-maker within prison healthcare, responding to escalated concerns from primary care and multidisciplinary teams.
• Share clinical time flexibly across prisons according to clinical need, acuity and risk, ensuring equitable senior clinical input.
• Maintain responsibility for safe, effective and timely clinical interventions within custodial environments.

Full JD is available in supporting documents section of this advert.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You will need to provide:

Proof of right to work documentation

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID

Proof of address documentation

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.

Address History:

5 years address history will be needed.

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).