Main area: Community Mental Health - Mental Health Services
Grade Band: 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-MHC6895057
Site: Baird House
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 10/02/2025
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce.
Job overview
We are currently recruiting for qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work within our community mental health team at Baird House, Edge Lane, Liverpool. This is an exciting role that will provide additional clinical leadership to our Windsor CMHT.
You will operate as part of an innovative, forward-thinking leadership team. Tasks will include attending weekly multidisciplinary meetings, carrying out initial assessments, follow-ups, and reviews of service users as part of the shared caseload of the team.
You will be expected to prescribe mental health medication and ensure the safe management of medicines, adhering to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and Trust medicine code.
The ACP will work in partnership with service users, carers, and other agencies to ensure effective outcomes for all, utilizing expert mental and physical health professional skills to provide assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and clinical guidance as appropriate.
Main duties of the job
* Provide strategic clinical leadership in relation to older adult mental health using up-to-date and evidence-based theory.
* Undertake expert assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care for service users.
* Offer expert clinical advice for service users, carers, and other professionals.
* Demonstrate advanced competence in highly complex decision-making, assessment, and management of clinical needs.
* Visit service users in the most appropriate setting to meet their needs and refer them to other members of the multidisciplinary team as required.
* Use independent non-medical prescribing skills in the initiation and evaluation of treatment plans.
* Establish consistent and evidence-based side-effect medication monitoring.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health, including learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services.
Our commitment to ‘perfect care’ ensures that care is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Assess, plan, evaluate, treat, and discharge from CMHT care as appropriate to service users' needs.
* Liaise with other services as required.
* Refer for medical intervention as the service users' needs require.
* Make changes within the clinical practices of the team based on evidence, policy, and/or identified needs of service users.
* Work as advanced clinical lead.
* Utilize expert mental and physical health professional skills to provide assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and clinical guidance.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Professional Registration (e.g., Registered Nurse Mental Health)
* Educated to degree level or equivalent
* Minimum of 3 years’ experience in clinical practice
* Evidence of post-registration study/continuing professional development at master's level or equivalent
* Master’s Degree
Knowledge/Experience
* Understanding of Equality and Human Rights
* Extensive abilities in delivering innovation and quality in clinical practice
* Experience of promoting clinical effectiveness and standards setting via audit and governance frameworks
* Training and teaching expertise in applied settings
* Service user focused with a track record of collaborative interdisciplinary work
* Ability to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy
* In-depth knowledge of clinical care with significant evidence of post-registration development activity
* Commitment to service user involvement
* Excellent leadership and communication skills
* Ability to reflect on experience and generate a learning culture
* Research skills and record of scholarship
* Computer literate with a working knowledge of standard formats including spreadsheets and data management
* Effective communicator with a track record of presentations and publications
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change Oriented
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the minimum criteria for the role in the person specification.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process, please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk.
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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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