Advanced Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has come up for Advanced Practitioner position on a temporary 6-month basis in the Walworth Community mental health team. This will be to cover the current staff in post, who is taking off 6 months to pursue education training.
This is an opportunity for anyone interested to enhance their leadership skills and have a pivotal role leading a busy and dynamic team. The Advanced Practitioner will support the clinical team leader in providing clinical leadership and managerial oversight for the allocated CMHT. They will support transfers across the community mental health teams (CMHTs). This includes taking a lead in clinical decision making, supporting the referral pathway in an out of the CMHT, as well as deputizing for the team leader.

We are looking for dynamic and enthusiastic candidates, with strong leadership skills and a commitment to delivering high standards of care.

You will be expected to work with the service lead, team leader and team members.

You will also provide support to care coordinator's with complex cases using evidence based/client centered principles, as well as supervision and appraisal for staff in the team. You will oversee the referral pathway within locality CMHT, this includes: helping to ensure that the team consistently meet the Waiting Time Standards, having oversight of referrals coming into the team, and helping to ensure that clients are discharged from the service per agreed care plan. To develop and maintain good communication between the multidisciplinary team and other agencies, those referring to the team such as GPs, other community teams, ward services and home treatment teams.

To apply for this post you must be a registered Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.

Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.

Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes

Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars

Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites

NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Mental Health Nursing qualification , with professional registration NMC, Evidence of continuing professional development e.g. relevant training

Additional qualification /diploma – in related field e.g. Mental Health, leadership, coaching, mentorship, family work
Experience

Extensive post registration experience in adult mental health in a variety of Mental health setting

Experience of undertaking a leadership role

Experience of working with people experiencing severe and enduring mental illness

Experience of providing supervision in a clinical setting

Experience in managing safeguarding concerns and risk

Ability to analyse complex issues/problems, provide guidance and make decisions (A/I)

• Skills in mental health and risk assessments (A/I)
• Skills in crisis management (A/I)
• Ability to provide care that is sensitive to the needs of minority groups (A/I)
• Effectively manage a clinical caseload, complete outcomes

measures routinely, update clinical records in line with team, service
and Trust requirements

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (A/I)
• Skilled in the use of ICT, particularly

Microsoft Office

Knowledge of CPA, Community Care Act, Carers Act, Mental Health Act and other relevant legislation as application to practice

Knowledge of race and gender issues as they pertain to people with serious

mental health problems
Excellent knowledge & experience of assessment and risk assessment tools.