Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

Leeds and York Partnership; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension Scheme

Flexible working

Remote working

Career development

Training opportunities

Job summary

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the Adult Eating Disorders service. You will blend senior clinical practice with leadership, delivering high-quality, specialist care to adults with eating disorders in community and inpatient settings.

You will lead nursing, shape care pathways, and contribute to audits and research, working with colleagues to improve outcomes.

Qualifications

• Registered with the NMC level 1 (Mental Health or Learning Disability) and non-medical prescriber qualification.
• Evidence of advanced clinical practitioner skills.
• Evidence of post-qualification ACP experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead nursing assessment and treatment for adults with highly complex needs, supporting safe, effective and evidence-based care.
• Provide professional leadership for the nursing workforce and contribute to service development.
• Shape clinical pathways across inpatient and community settings and collaborate with partners.
• Contribute to clinical audits and research to inform nursing practice and service development.

Skills

Advanced clinical practitioner skills

Education

Registered with the NMC level 1; RN (Mental Health or Learning Disability) and qualified non-medical prescriber

Job description

Are you looking for mental health jobs in Leeds, York or with one of our regional services operating across the country? We have a range of NHS Job opportunities, placements and specialities in our clinical, research, and professional support teams across Leeds and York.

At Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT), we strive to provide high-quality mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. We can only achieve this by putting our staff and the people using our services at the centre of everything we do. This starts with the people we employ. We recruit based on values and qualifications (where required) and believe lived experience is an advantage. We look for potential, not perfection, and this means that together, we are as diverse as the communities we care for.

Simply put, we seek out people who care, act with integrity and have the right skills. We want to add to our incredible colleagues, students and volunteers who share these principles, with people like you, who find empathy comes easily and who treat everyone with respect without thinking. Search our latest jobs to start your journey with us.

Join Connect as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in our Adult Eating Disorders Inpatient Unit.

Connect is the lead provider of specialist adult eating disorder services across West Yorkshire and one of the country’s leading NHS Eating Disorder Provider Collaboratives.

We are looking for a motivated and compassionate Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our inpatient team and play a key role in delivering specialist care to adults experiencing eating disorders.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the region’s leading adult eating disorder service where your clinical expertise, ideas and initiative will make a real difference.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to the continued development of our service, help shape how care is delivered, and work alongside colleagues who share a commitment to providing high-quality, person-centred care.

At Connect, we believe in continually learning, developing and finding better ways to support the people who use our services. We are looking for someone who shares this commitment, enjoys working collaboratively, and is enthusiastic about bringing their skills and experience to a specialist area of care.

To be eligible for this role, you must hold an Advanced Clinical Practitioner qualification and a Non-Medical Prescriber qualification.

Main duties of the job

As the Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) for Adult Eating Disorders, you will play a key role in delivering and shaping high quality, specialist care for adults with eating disorders across community and inpatient services. As a senior clinician within Connect, you will combine advanced clinical practice with professional leadership, service development and a commitment to improving outcomes for the people we support.

This is an opportunity to use your clinical expertise and leadership skills to make a meaningful difference, influence how care is delivered, and help shape the future of specialist eating disorder services across West Yorkshire.

Working in line with the four pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice: clinical practice, leadership, facilitation of learning, and evidence, research and development — you will have a varied and influential role, balancing direct patient care with opportunities to develop colleagues, improve clinical pathways and drive innovation.

Working for our organisation

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles(this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will lead nursing assessment and treatment for people with highly complex needs, supporting safe, effective and evidence-based care. Your clinical responsibilities will include referral triage, assessment, discharge planning and physical health management, helping to ensure that people with eating disorders can access appropriate, timely and coordinated care.

Alongside your clinical work, you will provide professional leadership for the nursing workforce, working closely with clinical, professional and operational leads to strengthen nursing practice, support the development of junior colleagues and contribute to an effective multidisciplinary team. You will work collaboratively with service managers and other senior clinicians to promote high standards of care and continuous improvement across the service.

You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the strategic development of Connect’s service model, helping to design and improve clinical pathways across both inpatient and community settings. Working in partnership with colleagues, commissioners and services across the Integrated Care System (ICS), you will help strengthen collaborative approaches to care and support the development and implementation of new models of service delivery.

Evidence-based practice and continuous learning will be central to your role. You will lead and contribute to relevant clinical audits and research, using evidence and learning to inform nursing practice, improve the quality of care and support ongoing service development.
This is a varied and rewarding opportunity for an experienced ACP who wants to combine specialist clinical practice with leadership and innovation, supporting both the people who use our services and the colleagues who care for them.

We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for.

Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.

All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team [e-mail]

Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.

So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered with the NMC level 1. RN (Mental Health or Learning Disability) and qualified non-medical prescriber

Skills

• Evidence of advanced clinical practitioner skills

Experience

• Evidence of post qualification experience working at ACP level

Knowledge

• Evidence of knowledge relevant to job description

Values Based

• Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue.
• Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help.
• Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.

Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position based on a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks.

The purpose of a temporary is role could be for maternity cover, temporary funding or some other reason. At the end of which the need for the temporary work will cease. Temporary roles can stop, be extended and/or made permanent at any point during the period of work. Should the role become permanent then the post-holder will be informed of the process to be followed to convert the position to a permanent one.

All new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response. LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.

LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.

We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. In submitting an application form, you authorize Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.

In applying for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not.

Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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