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Job overview
The ACP is a senior autonomous practitioner within SCFT, providing expert mental health diagnosis, assessment, formulation, treatment and risk management to adults with severe and enduring mental illness who require ongoing specialist forensic follow up in the community.
Working across the four pillars of advanced clinical practice - clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research/evidence and quality improvement the ACP will act as a visible clinical leader within SCFT. Working in partnership with SCFT leadership team driving service development, workforce capability and high quality, evidence based care in line with national advanced practive, mental health frameworks and the SCFT leadership team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will hold a complex community forensic caseload and use advanced reasoning, non medical prescribing (where appropriately qualified) and high level decision making to optimise outcomes, reduce relapse and promote recovery, working collaboratively with service users, families and carers.
The role includes providing specialist forensic advice, in-reach and consultancy to district services, supporting prevention of unnecessary admissions to secure care and contributing to safe and effective patient flow across the system.
The post holder will provide specialist forensic advice to internal and external partners, support safe and effective patient flow across the service and community pathways and participate in relevant on call or extended hours arrangements as required.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification
Staff benefits
- Pay Enhancements
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- Excellent pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Wellbeing programme
- Blue Light Card Discounts
- fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- • Significant experience in secure mental health services at senior clinical leadership.
- • Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary setting
- • Experience of successful leadership and management in a complex organisation
- • Ability to demonstrate leadership and delivery of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led services.
- • Knowledge and application of key policies and procedures
- • Presentation skills.
- • Referral, assessment and discharge management skills.
Desirable
- • Experience in managing and delivering projects.
- • Demonstrates evidence of innovation and improvement in the provision of services
- • Demonstrates ability to develop and utilise effective professional networks.
- • Extensive clinical experience of working in a range of mental health settings
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- • Master’s degree in advanced clinical practice or NHSE E – portfolio completed to support master’s level advanced practice competency.
- • Relevant professional qualification to post graduate degree level or equivalent experience in area of expertise.
- • Evidence of continuing professional development
- • Experience within an inpatient/community/Social Care setting
- • Experience of successful leadership and management in a complex organisation.
Desirable
- • Evidence of leading on collaborative working across system partners to influence system wide change.
- • V300 non-medical prescribing
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This advert is for SCFT Advanced Clinical Practitioner with Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester, North West, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 06 Aug 2026.
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