Advanced Clinical Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our At‑Risk Mental State (ARMS) Service in North Kent. We are seeking a dynamic clinician who holds a recognised Advanced Clinical Practice qualification and is a fully qualified Independent Prescriber. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering high‑quality assessment, intervention, and clinical leadership within this specialist early intervention pathway

You will be an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, which comprises of Nurses, Doctors, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists and a range of non-registered health care roles. You will work within a defined scope of practice and to agreed clinical standards applied within the local setting.

The role will be multi factorial, including clinical assessment, formulation, non-medical prescribing and holistic treatments and will improve the quality of and access to health care provision and strengthen professional leadership, supporting the development and practice of junior clinicians.

The role will involve inter agency working.

The Role Will Be Structured Around Four Core Functions

• Expert practice with a minimum clinical focus of 70%
• Professional leadership and consultancy
• Education, training and development
• Practice and service development, audit and evaluation
• Carry out and coordinate comprehensive, systematic holistic assessments which take account of relevant mental, physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual, and environmental factors, in partnership with service user and others through interaction, observation and measurement.
• Work collaboratively with other disciplines, service user and their carers to formulate and agree a holistic person-centred care plan that addresses the needs identified through assessment.
• Deliver and evaluate safe, person centred care in partnership with the service user and their carers to support recovery.
• Act as a clinical leader supporting the development of best practice in line with trust policy and NICE guidance.
• Facilitate and review approved Quality Improvement initiatives within the care setting

We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.

Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.

Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.

We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Harriet Powolny-Tallent Job title: Service Manager Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: 07717513381

Stuart Harling

Service Manager

07917856212