# Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Manchester
- **Region:** North West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Nurse practitioner
- **Speciality:** Psychiatry
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £64,750 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Happy to discuss flexible working)
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-20T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-06T10:42:58.329Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Manchester/Greater_Manchester_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/community_mental_health/community_mental_health-v8097891
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8097891?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to join the team as a trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner.

The successful applicant will be a Registered Allied Health Professional or Nurse with considerable clinical experience.

The post holder will be an active senior leader in North Manchester, offering leadership and guidance to the wider team and will be involved in service development work. You will provide clinical interventions and work closely with the team to give clinical direction and oversight, provide supervision and work in collaboration with the multi disciplinary team.

A thorough understanding of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and Human Rights Act will be essential to the role as these will provide the framework for all consideration.

Interview date - 21st July

### Main duties of the job

- Ability to practice at an advanced clinical level and exercise high levels of judgement, discretion and decision-making in clinical care.
- Provide clinical leadership, expert practice, advanced knowledge, and strategic direction on all aspects of adult acute mental health at Meadowbrook.
- Providing clinical leadership and management leading to the provision of safe, quality, effective care.
- Improving workforce knowledge and practice through the provision of an inpatient education and training
- Leading improvements in the quality of care and safety through service development, evaluation and audit.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detail, please see attached job description for detailed role and responsibilities

Staff benefits

- Pay Enhancements – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
- 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 Discount

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Extensive knowledge of psychological, social and biological factors and formulating these into a comprehensive bio-psycho- social formulation and risk management plans.
- Facilitate a culture of life long learning including involvement in the process of clinical supervision

**Desirable**

- Teaching qualification
- Clinical supervision/mentorship training

### Work Related Experience

**Essential**

- Able to lead on a series of audits, action plans and projects simultaneously.
- Experience of leading complex RCA, complaints and HR investigations

**Desirable**

- Audit and RCA training

### Education/Qualifications

**Essential**

- Professional qualification RMN/Part 2 NMC
- Extensive experience in clinical roles within mental health
- Extensive experience within inpatient mental health services

**Desirable**

- Qualifications in Project Management / change management / Quality improvement
- Non medical prescriber

## Documents

- [jd (pdf, 288.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10391760)
- [person spec (pdf, 152.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10391761)
- [important candidate information (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=931)

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