Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health organization in the UK is looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the Fylde Coast Home Based Treatment team. This role focuses on providing advanced clinical skills for adult mental health care and involves working closely within a multi-disciplinary team. The ideal candidate has experience in mental health settings and a passion for supporting complex health needs. The position supports flexible working arrangements, enhancing work-life balance for employees.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience in adult mental health care and assessment.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Proven track record in delivering high-quality mental health services.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced clinical skills in assessment and management.
• Contribute to medical prescribing as part of the team.
• Promote recovery-based care and develop care programmes.

Skills

Advanced clinical expertise

Judgement and decision making

Collaboration

Mental Health care in community settings

Education

Relevant clinical qualification

Job description

Are you an Advanced Clinical Practitioner with a passion for Adult Mental Health care? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join Fylde Coast Home Based Treatment team (HBTT)

Fylde Coast HBTT is an adults Community Mental Health urgent care service based at the gateway, Blackpool football stadium covering the Fylde Coast locality

We are a 7 day a week service covering 24hr time period

The role will be Monday-Friday 9-5pm

We are a multi- disciplinary team, with close working links with other health departments, social services and voluntary agencies.

Our service users can present with mental health difficulties which are often combined with complex social care and physical health needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Exercise advanced clinical expertise, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in the delivery of clinical care. Provide advanced clinical skills in relation to assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of the service user group. Promote recovery based care programmes and set high standards for the delivery of care to patients and their families and be responsible for delivering high quality services.
• Work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team providing mental health services to Urgent care community settings
• Contribute to the medical prescribing provision within the team through supportive dedicated Non-Medical prescribing.
• Work collaboratively as part of the multidisciplinary teams developing shared goals, complementing the roles of others to support and maintain team growth and continuous improvement.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss this options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lisa Nicholson Job title: Service Manager Email address: [e-mail]

We encourage informal discussion or if you have an enquiry about this, please do not hesitate to contact -

Lisa Nicholson (Interim Service manager)

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Chantelle Carlin (Team Lead)

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