Advanced Clinical Practitioner - MH, Learning Disability & Autism

South West London & St George's Mental Health NHS Trust; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health trust in the UK is seeking an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join their team. The role emphasizes delivering high-quality, person-centered care while leading clinical practices that address mental health needs, learning disabilities, and autism. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong leadership abilities, work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, and apply evidence-based decision-making in complex situations. Join this dynamic team dedicated to enhancing care quality for individuals in acute settings.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Flexible working arrangements

Support for diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Experienced in delivering person-centered care.
• Ability to lead advanced clinical practices in mental health.
• Knowledgeable in neurodiversity and learning disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of advanced clinical practices.
• Assess and determine patients' capacity for decision making.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure quality care.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical assessment

Evidence-based decision making

Therapeutics knowledge

Collaboration

Education

Registered Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job description

Overview

As an ACP, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, person-centered care. This includes leading the implementation of advanced clinical practices across inpatient services; supporting service users with complex needs, particularly those with learning disabilities and neurodiversity; driving research, quality improvement initiatives, and innovative care approaches; and acting as a role model, supervisor, and mentor for less experienced staff within the MDT. You will be working alongside a multidisciplinary team and fostering collaborative relationships within the Trust and beyond, ensuring inclusivity, resilience, and hope in care delivery.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates the advanced skills and knowledge to undertake comprehensive person-centred history taking, assessment and formulation; considering biological, psychological, social, spiritual, learning disability and neurodiversity perspectives.
• Critically assesses and determines a person\'s capacity to make choices and decisions.
• Uses expertise and decision-making skills to appraise complex, incomplete, ambiguous and conflicting information, synthesizing information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
• Critically applies care and treatment in line with national and local guidance; utilising evidence-based interventions within scope of practice, referring people to other professionals or services as the need requires.
• Demonstrates the ability to prioritise interventions in situations where there are multiple issues, changing priorities and/or safety concerns, especially in the presence of multi-morbidity, complexity and/or unpredictability, learning disability and neurodiversity.
• Demonstrates the critical use of evidence-based evaluation tools and/or outcome measures to assess the efficacy of interventions; collaboratively making appropriate care planning modifications with the person, carers and other relevant parties.
• Demonstrates an in-depth critical understanding of the principles of therapeutics, polypharmacy, de-prescribing, optimal prescribing, adverse and toxic medication effects and medication burden.
• Identifies and leads response, in a timely manner, to the condition and presentation of the person; in the presence of physical health acuity and/or mental health deterioration.
• Keep accurate, contemporaneous documentation and care plans, in line with clinical governance and organisational policy.
• Demonstrate a deep and systematic knowledge and understanding of local care systems (including agencies outside of statutory care); collaborating with and referring to them independently and when required.
• Act as clinical lead on the delivery of specialist-specific interventions, working in collaboration with the person, their family and carers, as well as a range of professionals and agencies.
• Demonstrate support, respect and courtesy towards colleagues, working in a professional manner and with Trust values always in mind, respecting the boundaries of the relationship with the person, carers and staff.
• Challenge, where appropriate, professional and organisational boundaries, identify areas for skill/knowledge development and apply these to practice ensuring continuity and high standards of care.
• Exemplifies leadership, resilience and determination, manages situations that are unfamiliar, uncertain, complex or unpredictable and seeks to build confidence in others.

About the Trust

At South West London St George\'s Mental Health Trust we are committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Committed Employer, and welcome applications from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We are Members of Stonewall Diversity Champions and Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion. As part of the Trust\'s commitment to Equalities and Diversity, the Trust supports the establishment of Staff Networks groups to promote diversity in the workplace: + BME (Evolve) Staff Network + Christian Staff Network + DiverseAbility + Deaf Staff Network + Mental Health Staff Forum + Women\'s Staff Network + LGBTQIA+. We are committed to supporting the Armed Forces Community and have signed the Armed Forces Covenant. We provide reasonable adjustments to the interview process for any candidates with a disability.

Note: The closing date listed is a guide only and the vacancy may close earlier should a sufficient number of applicants be received. By submitting your application you agree to it being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. If you have not heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful. Priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees. If successful and appointed, you authorize the Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Your employment is offered subject to successful completion of a Probationary Period depending on your Band (except medical roles). The Trust is smoke-free.

Are you a passionate and experienced healthcare professional ready to take the next step in your career? Join our dynamic team as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) and contribute to transforming the quality of care for individuals with mental health needs, learning disabilities, and autism in acute inpatient settings. This role is part of the Mental Health Learning Disability and Autism Inpatient Quality Transformation Programme (MHLDA IQTP), a national initiative dedicated to improving outcomes and experiences for service users and their families. You will need to be a Registered Advanced Clinical Practitioner with experience of working in Mental Health Services who has also developed or started to develop their clinical expertise to expand to learning disability, autism and/or neurodiversity.

Location and Service Information

NHS AfC: Band 8a. South West London and St George\'s Mental Health NHS Trust provides a full range of local mental health services to several London boroughs and specialist services. We aim to be outstanding and are committed to flexible working, career development and a positive, welcoming environment.