Advanced Clinical Practitioner | Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health trust in Kent is seeking two Advanced Clinical Practitioners to provide expert clinical management for patients. The role focuses on patient assessments, holistic care plans, and supporting junior clinicians. Responsibilities include inter-agency collaboration and ensuring quality improvement. Candidates should have a valid UK driving licence. The position promises meaningful engagement in enhancing mental health care, emphasizing inclusivity and diversity within the team. Applications are particularly encouraged from under-represented communities.

Qualifications

• Must hold a full, valid UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle for business purposes.

Responsibilities

• Carry out systematic holistic assessments considering various factors.
• Collaborate with disciplines to formulate holistic care plans.
• Deliver and evaluate safe, person-centred care.
• Act as a clinical leader supporting best practice.
• Facilitate approved Quality Improvement initiatives.

Job description

Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.

We are recruiting two Advanced Clinical Practitioners to provide expert clinical management for patients requiring care within the assigned care setting. One position will cover East Kent and the second position will cover North Kent.

You will be an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, which comprises of Nurses, Doctors, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists and a range of non-registered health care roles. You will work within a defined scope of practice and to agreed clinical standards applied within the local setting.

The role will be multi factorial, including clinical assessment, formulation, non-medical prescribing and holistic treatments and will improve the quality of and access to health care provision and strengthen professional leadership, supporting the development and practice of junior clinicians.

The role will involve inter agency working.

The role will be structured around four core functions:

• Expert practice with a minimum clinical focus of 70%
• Professional leadership and consultancy
• Education, training and development
• Practice and service development, audit and evaluation

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Responsibilities

• Carry out and coordinate comprehensive, systematic holistic assessments which take account of relevant mental, physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual, and environmental factors, in partnership with service user and others through interaction, observation and measurement.
• Work collaboratively with other disciplines, service user and their carers to formulate and agree a holistic person-centred care plan that addresses the needs identified through assessment.
• Deliver and evaluate safe, person centred care in partnership with the service user and their carers to support recovery.
• Act as a clinical leader supporting the development of best practice in line with trust policy and NICE guidance.
• Facilitate and review approved Quality Improvement initiatives within the care setting

We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.

Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s doing well together.

Check out our Canterbury site

Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.

At KMMH, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

This advert closes on Friday 12 Dec 2025