Job summary
The Advanced Practitioner (AP) within the Adult Eating Disorder Service will provide inspirational specialist practice leadership within the team. Including conducting specialist assessments, providing advice and guidance within the team and outside of the service and ensure the implementation of psychological therapies and evidenced based interventions to service users, families and carers.
Working will be across the service in new pathways including new Intensive Community Support, Support and Stability and Early Intervention. We are also looking to introduce Sensory integration modules into treatment skills modules.
This post is central to the delivery of clinically based therapeutic intervention, support, education, and training working as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will develop and embed evidence based clinical practice within the team.
Main duties of the job
The AP is a clinical specialist in adult mental health and is knowledgeable and skilled in working with groups and teams.
The post holder will promote an effective ethos across the service and work closely with the leadership team to support and implement changes to practice and contribute to ongoing service development.
The post holder will liaise with other organisations and professionals, promoting communication and good practice, contributing to outcome measures and auditing, and provide supervision to other staff in the team.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- To ensure that a therapeutic milieu is maintained by supporting the clinical team and the therapeutic structure
- To take a lead role in ensuring that a high standard of multi-disciplinary care planning is in place and to be accountable for the clinical contribution to the process. To ensure that the clinical team provide accurate and high-quality patient records
- To maintain personal and professional development by providing direct clinical work to individuals and their families with appropriate evidence-based intervention e.g. CBT, DBT, Motivational interviewing, solution focused therapy, providing groups and activities in line with the recovery model
- To participate in research and audit in the clinical field
- To encourage and develop service user and carer involvement
- To support the Directorate with the investigation process and learning lessons from serious incidents and complaints
- To undertake any other duties which may reasonably be required by the Service manager
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- To ensure that a therapeutic milieu is maintained by supporting the clinical team and the therapeutic structure
- To take a lead role in ensuring that a high standard of multi-disciplinary care planning is in place and to be accountable for the clinical contribution to the process. To ensure that the clinical team provide accurate and high-quality patient records
- To maintain personal and professional development by providing direct clinical work to individuals and their families with appropriate evidence-based intervention e.g. CBT, DBT, Motivational interviewing, solution focused therapy, providing groups and activities in line with the recovery model
- To participate in research and audit in the clinical field
- To encourage and develop service user and carer involvement
- To support the Directorate with the investigation process and learning lessons from serious incidents and complaints
- To undertake any other duties which may reasonably be required by the Service manager
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or extensive clinical experience.
- Professional qualifications in Mental Health Nursing, OT or Social Work.
- Completion of Mentorship/Coaching Course or intention to complete
- Evidence of Continuous professional development
Desirable
- Leadership qualification
- Qualification in evidence based psychological therapy relevant to eating disorders
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working alongside people with complex eating disorders
- Experience of supervising staff, clinically
- Extensive experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care pathway
- Extensive experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Extensive experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
- Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and nonstatutory teams and agencies
- Extensive experience of working within the CPA process
- Extensive understanding of clinical governance
Desirable
- Experience of leading clinical staff or teams in practice improvement
- Lived experience of mental health issues
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Advanced Clinical Skills in the delivery of psychological therapies, assessment, planning and delivery of therapeutic intervention
- Provision of specialist clinical advice in relation to care delivery
- Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Excellent ability to develop effective professional relationships with others, (individuals and groups)
- Excellent ability to develop good therapeutic relationships Able to establish and maintain communication with individuals, families, carers and groups about difficult or complex matters
- Strong ability to innovate and implement change
- The ability to multitask and mental adaptation to different unpredictable situations
- Advanced specialist knowledge of clinical assessment, intervention and practice models relevant to the client group
- Knowledge of NICE guidance and other National guidance relevant to delivery of care and safe clinical practice
- Knowledge of MH Act
- Excellent understanding of the relevant professional Code and its application in practice
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or extensive clinical experience.
- Professional qualifications in Mental Health Nursing, OT or Social Work.
- Completion of Mentorship/Coaching Course or intention to complete
- Evidence of Continuous professional development
Desirable
- Leadership qualification
- Qualification in evidence based psychological therapy relevant to eating disorders
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working alongside people with complex eating disorders
- Experience of supervising staff, clinically
- Extensive experience of providing a range of clinical interventions to people in the designated care pathway
- Extensive experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Extensive experience of conducting clinical assessments including risk assessments
- Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and nonstatutory teams and agencies
- Extensive experience of working within the CPA process
- Extensive understanding of clinical governance
Desirable
- Experience of leading clinical staff or teams in practice improvement
- Lived experience of mental health issues
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Advanced Clinical Skills in the delivery of psychological therapies, assessment, planning and delivery of therapeutic intervention
- Provision of specialist clinical advice in relation to care delivery
- Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Excellent ability to develop effective professional relationships with others, (individuals and groups)
- Excellent ability to develop good therapeutic relationships Able to establish and maintain communication with individuals, families, carers and groups about difficult or complex matters
- Strong ability to innovate and implement change
- The ability to multitask and mental adaptation to different unpredictable situations
- Advanced specialist knowledge of clinical assessment, intervention and practice models relevant to the client group
- Knowledge of NICE guidance and other National guidance relevant to delivery of care and safe clinical practice
- Knowledge of MH Act
- Excellent understanding of the relevant professional Code and its application in practice
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
