Enhanced Clinical Practitioner

South West London and St. George's Mental Health NHS Trust; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Career development

Benefits package

Job summary

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust in London is seeking an Enhanced Clinical Practitioner for the Wandsworth Older People Community Team. The post combines clinical leadership with a focus on advanced practice to improve care for older adults with complex mental health needs.

You will act as a senior clinician, collaborate with multidisciplinary colleagues, contribute to service development and research, and provide training to staff while promoting patient-centred,

Qualifications

• Extensive older adult practice-based experience aligned to the four pillars of advanced practice (Clinical Practice, Leadership, Education and Research).
• Ability to lead clinical service development and quality improvement initiatives within older people services.
• Strong collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams, patients and carers to deliver person-centred care.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key worker for an identified caseload of patients with complex needs while balancing clinical leadership and quality of care.
• Undertake comprehensive history taking, assessment and formulation from biological, psychological, social and spiritual perspectives.
• Prioritise interventions in complex, changing or high-safety-risk situations and contribute to care planning modifications.
• Lead on delivery of high quality, safe and contemporary care and participate in research and quality improvement initiatives.

Job description

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.

We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' however we aim to be 'outstanding'.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".

When you join us, you'll be part of something special - an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.

As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Older Peoples services. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team that assess all referrals for old age adults with mental health needs and resident in the service's local area.

You will be part of the Wandsworth OP Functional RST and expected to work closely with the services within the Older People Care Service Line, the Community Service Line, Primary Care, the Local Authority and with family and carers in a collaborative and professional manner. In return, you will have the opportunity to be supported to develop further your clinical knowledge and skills and if you wish to achieve further promotion within the organization this is something that we are keen to develop and nurture.

The post requires an individual who is visionary, innovative, assertive, autonomous, thrives under pressure, compassionate and can bring their experience and expertise to this senior role within our Wandsworth Older People Community Team, ensuring that they can provide a responsive and co‑ordinated Enhanced Clinical Service, providing training and development, participating in QI projects and research, and acting as a compassionate leader.

Main duties of the job

The Enhanced Clinical Practitioner is a semi-autonomous multi-professional clinical leadership role. The post holder should demonstrate extensive older adult practice-based experience aligned to the four pillars of advanced practice (Clinical Practice, Leadership, Education and Research). The Enhanced Practitioner aims to ensure the service operates in a safe, effective and efficient manner, promoting a whole system approach to mental health. The post-holder will support strategic leadership in relation to service improvement and quality evaluation. The post holder should help to foster a culture that encourages and enables individuals and carers to have an active role in identifying, planning and meeting individual needs.

The post holder will develop their skills and knowledge to deliver, and lead on the delivery of, high quality safe and contemporary care, ensuring consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence; including promoting population health, improving personal outcomes, contributing towards service evaluation, while leading and developing research and quality improvement initiatives. The post holder will support patients and carers presenting with complex needs, aiming to develop their resilience and relapse prevention strategies.

Working for our organisation

Unless expressly stated in the job advert the role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co‑produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will act as a key worker for an identified caseload of patients with complex needs whilst balancing clinical leadership and quality of care within the service.

Demonstrates enhanced skills and knowledge to undertake comprehensive person-centered history taking, assessment and formulation, considering biological, psychological, social and spiritual perspectives.

Critically assess and determine a person's capacity to make choices and decisions.

Develops the 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 applications 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 and develops 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.

Demonstrates and develops 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.

Develops an in-depth critical understanding of the principles of therapeutics, polypharmacy, de‑prescribing, optimal prescribing, adverse and toxic medication effects and medication burden.

Identifies, in a timely manner, 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.

Ensure appropriate and timely transfer of care between services.

Facilitate regular review of caseloads, providing guidance and support to ensure