Specialist Clinical Practitioner

Devon Partnership NHS Trust; Paignton; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Devon Partnership NHS Trust is seeking a Band 7 Specialist Clinical Practitioner at Torbay OPMH CMHT. The role involves expert patient care, team collaboration, and independent prescribing. Applicants must hold a clinical degree and be registered with NMC or HCPC. A commitment to improving mental health and supporting service users is essential.

Qualifications

• An excellent understanding of the NSF, 5 year forward review for mental health.
• Ability to travel across Devon.
• High level of emotional resilience.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert care within professional boundaries.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team and support policies.
• Deliver comprehensive assessments and establish diagnoses.

Skills

Communication and Working Relationship Skills

Analytical & Judgemental Skills

Organisational Skills

Education

Clinical based Degree

MSc Advanced Practice

Post basic qualification in specialty Application Non-Medical Prescriber (V300)

Job description

Location: Paignton, TQ3 2DW
Salary: £46148.00 to £52809.00
Date posted: 30th May 2025
Closing date: 20th June 2025

Are yousomeone looking for a career in one of the UK's most respected mental healthand learning disability trusts?

Would youlike to be part of a dedicated team committed to making difference topeoples lives to enjoy a better future?

An excitingopportunity has risen at Torbay OPMH CMHT for the post of 1.0 WTE Band 7 SpecialistClinical Practitioner. Non-medical prescribing competency is essential.

Job sharingwill also be considered.

Please seeattached job description for more information.

Please feelfree to contact Dr Arun Devasahayam, Consultant psychiatrist, Torbay OPMH CMHTon 01803-546686, to have an informal discussion about this post.

Devon PartnershipNHS Trust is growing as we establish ourselves us as one of the leadingproviders of mental health services in the country.

Working as partof Devon Partnership NHS Trust, you will make a difference to peoples livesfrom the moment you start.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will demonstrate critical thinking, compassion, and commitment, providing expert care within their professional boundaries. Their role includes history-taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and care evaluation, ensuring safe and competent clinical decision-making. They will collaborate with the multidisciplinary team, supporting policies and procedures while offering leadership where required.

This role focuses on preventing unnecessary hospital admissions, enabling patients to remain at home when safe and appropriate. The post holder will proactively identify and prevent relapse or deterioration, reducing admissions to long-term care facilities.

As part of a multi-professional team, they will deliver comprehensive assessments, establish diagnoses, and create evidence-based, person-centred treatment plans, including independent prescribing and medication reviews in collaboration with the medicines optimisation team.

Specialist Clinical Practitioners will help develop and implement effective models of care, ensuring timely clinician-to-clinician advice, supporting patient safety and quality improvement.

Your base will be in Torbay, however under the current COVID-19conditions this may be subject to alternative arrangements/change for examplehome working. Please be assured that any alternatives will be discussed fullywith you and the organisation. Please ask the appointing manager if you haveany questions.

About us

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• An excellent understanding of the NSF, 5 year forward review for mental health and Mental Health Act/ Mental Health Capacity Act requirements.
• CPA Process
• Awareness of community structures and social care options and processes

Physical Skills and Other

• Ability to travel across Devon and other locations in the course of the business requirement.
• Personal commitment to promoting equality, diversity and human rights in all aspects of service delivery.
• High level of emotional resilience.

Skills and Abilities

• Communication and Working Relationship Skills
• High level communication skills including: Presentation and facilitation skills; Consultation and engagement skills.
• An ability to adjust communication effectively to meet the needs of a diverse group including internal and external stakeholders.
• Good organisational and interpersonal skills, tact and sensitivity. Ability to gain trust.
• Ability to influence significant changes in service delivery through motivation and encouragement which may be highly complex and sensitive and include some barriers to understanding.
• Ability to contribute to the supervision and development of others.
• Confidence to deliver sometimes contentious and difficult messages to a broad range of stake holders.
• Analytical & Judgemental Skills
• Reporting analysis to a range of stakeholders in a manner that is clear and easily understood.
• Able to own problems and get involved in the solutions.
• Ability to manage risk.
• Ability to assess and interpret specialist acute and other patient conditions
• Planning & Organisational Skills
• Developing short to medium term project based action plans.
• Prioritise and adjust workload to address the changing needs of the organisation
• Flexible approach and ability to work independently and on own initiative as well as part of a team.
• Ability to undertake special projects in regard to service improvement and collaborative working with other stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Clinical based Degree
• MSc Advanced Practice or working towards or equivalent / minimum of 60 credits at post-graduate level in relevant subject ( e.g. Advanced psychosocial assessment and formulation, Enhancing the Care and Support of the Person with Dementia and their Carer) or equivalent clinical experience
• Post basic qualification in speciality Application Non-Medical Prescriber (V300)
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
• Current registration with the NMC or HCPC

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.