Job summary
Employer heading
Mental Health Advanced Practitioner
Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual interested in working as an Advanced Practitioner in the Older Peoples and Adult Community mental health service in the Huntingdon area.
We are looking to recruit an experienced mental health practitioner to both provide care and treatment but also lead a group of experienced and developing mental health practitioners.
The St Ives / St Neots locality includes Huntingdon, with a mix of urban and rural villages. Patients are over age 65 in the main (some younger with a dementia diagnosis) and live mostly in domestic settings with some in care homes. The presentations include the spectrum of mental health disorders (anxiety, depression, psychosis) and/ or dementia. Many have physical co-morbidities, so patients have a number of issues that require a coordinated approach.
For discussion or further information relating to this role please contact Christine Robertson 07789941199
Main duties of the job
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
We are collocated with district nursing and physical rehabilitation colleagues as well as close working relationships with the mental health multi-disciplinary team that include psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and social workers.
You will require a solid understanding of secondary mental health requirements, coupled with an ability to guide and support clinicians as we endeavour to meet the needs of a diverse community.
You will have frequent peer support / joint working from other North area advanced practitioners.
This is a great opportunity to combine leadership and a clinical role. There are opportunities for personal development within the Trust and opportunities for career development – we would welcome applications from relevant professional backgrounds.
*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Education / Qualifiation
Essential criteria
- • Registered Mental Health Nurse or equivalent AHP or Social work qualification.
- • NMC or HCPC registered
- • Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- • Demonstrate continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- • Management qualification Enhanced clinical skills qualification in relevant field.
- • Route cause analysis training
- • Safeguarding lead
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Proven record of experience and achievement in mental health assessment, care of adults and/ or older people
- • health assessment, care of adults and/ or older people
- • Evidence of effective leadership management in multi-disciplinary teams
- • Demonstrate effective liaison with care providers, voluntary and statutory partners
- • Knowledge of common mental health conditions effecting adults and older people
Desirable criteria
- • Budget management
- • Managing across sites
- • Have lived experience of mental health challenges.
- • Experience of people management
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
- • Experience of clinical supervision and leadership
- • Excellent communication skills both verbal and in writing.
- • Able to demonstrate a clear understanding of partnership working.
- • Demonstrates an understanding of health, social care and wider role of stakeholders.
- • Demonstrates an understanding of audit methodology.
- • Demonstrates ability to analyse and take action on performance and quality data.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- • Accepts responsibility and professional accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others.
- • Recognises the limits of own authority within the role.
- • Seeks and uses professional leads/ knowledge base and in partnership
- • Support staff appropriately.
- • Understands and adheres to the principles of confidentiality.
- • Standard keyboard skills and ability to communicate through IT using packages such as Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.
- • Able to utilise electronic patient records systm one.
- • HR systems and processes
Physical Requirements
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrates empathy for and awareness of concerns of others.
- • Listens to and understands directly and indirectly expressed feelings.
- • Encourages others to express themselves openly.
- • Manages strong emotions and responds constructively to the source of problems.
- • Shows respect for others’ feelings, views and circumstances.
- • In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check and takes constructive action and calms others down.
- • Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress. Can recognise when to use them and does so.
- • Shows a well-informed appreciation of the challenges of working with the diverse needs of this group
Others
Essential criteria
- • Positive approach to older people
- • Recognise people’s right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect.
- • Willingness to embrace service model and new ways of working.
- • Ability to travel across the county – sometimes at short notice, and regularly within catchment area
- • Satisfactory Criminal Records Disclosure
- • Flexibility to work over seven days per week, to support the delivery of a 24-hr service if the need arises.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Christine Robertson
- Job title
- North Mental Health Area Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07789941199
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