Clinical Specialist Practitioner

Integrated Care System; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in King's Lynn seeks a registered Mental Health Nurse, occupational therapist, or social worker to take on the role of clinical specialty practitioner. The successful candidate will demonstrate advanced clinical skills, provide leadership, and foster innovation in patient care. This full-time position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive training, and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Comprehensive training programs

Career progression opportunities

27 days annual leave rising to 33

NHS discounts

Relocation packages

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in acute mental health care.
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality care.
• Ability to cope with the pressure of acute crisis care.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical team in the care and treatment of patients.
• Support junior practitioners with leadership.
• Implement evidence-based practice and national guidelines.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Risk management

Supervision and mentorship

Evidence-based practice

Education

Mental health nurse, occupational therapist, or social worker qualification

Further education in specialty area

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a registered Mental Health Nurse, occupational therapist or social worker looking to progress their career as a clinical specialty practitioner.

We are looking for a dynamic registered practitioner with advanced clinical skills. We want applicants who are keen to be part of transformation and improvement in the area of West Adult CMHT ; people who can offer strong clinical leadership, education and mentoring to the team.

We value creativity, innovation and passion towards providing excellent patient care; a resilient practitioner, who is aware of and able to cope with the pressure and unpredictability of acute crisis care.

West Norfolk Adult CMHT are a proactive team supporting in treatment led interventions. You will be responsible for assessments, risk management, care planning, and co-ordination of care delivery within a well-resourced team, supported with regular supervision and providing opportunities to work in partnership with health and social care, linking into the wider multi-disciplinary service.

In addition to this , you will be asked to support Junior Practitioner by provided clinical leadership across the services to ensure high standards of care and clinical excellence across services.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties of the role include:

• To provide clinical leadership to the clinical team in the care, treatment and therapy of theclient group, with a clear focus on clinical risk and its management.
• To influence, lead and motivate staff at all levels within the clinical environment to deliver high quality care.
• To provide expertise, support and advice to clinical practitioners regarding all aspects of clinical care including implementing best practise based on evidence-based practice andNational Guidance.
• To sustain the clinically based training programme aimed at the development of staff within the clinical environment.
• To provide information, education and support for service users and their carers re coping with diagnosis and treatments.
• To interpret national guidelines and relevant research to inform local practice and procedures to achieve best practice.
• To maintain own expert status by developing training and improvement projects underpinned by research and legislation.
• To be member of the Trust Senior Nursing team and to contribute to relevant forums and meetings.
• To take part in and facilitate audits relevant to patient care.
• To take part in RCA reviews and implement any lessons learnt from incidents and complaints within the clinical area

Organisational StructureService ManagerDeputy Service MangerClinical Nurse Specialist

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more
• Relocation packages.

Job responsibilities

If you are interested in developing your leadership skills whilst in a clinical role and would you like to work in well supported, dynamic, enthusiastic recovery focused community team we would love to hear from you!

Candidates will require extensive post qualification experience, particularly in acute mental health and risk management. Individual competence and suitability will be explored within interview. It is vital that the successful candidate demonstrates values and behaviours reflective of those of our Trust and this is a focus of the interview process. Please see the Trust generic job description and the main duties summary.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Mental health nurse, occupational therapist, social worker or equivalent. Degree Level Qualification or studied at equivalent level
• Further education in developing clinical skills
• Further education in specialty area

Experience

• Extensive experience of practice within clinical area with proven track record in delivering high quality care
• Extensive experience in supervision and mentorship of others
• Experience of implementing evidence based practice and/or service improvement initiative

Knowledge

• Able to demonstrate sound clinical expertise and knowledge of mental health disorders and their treatments

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£47,810 to £54,710 a yeargross per annum