Advanced Clinical Practitioner - MH, Learning Disability & Autism
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 31 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £64,156 - £71,148 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAS |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 30 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, SW17 0YF |
| Cwmni: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7389479/294-MHCA-7389479-JB |
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A Vacancy at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
Are you a passionate and experienced healthcare professional ready to take the next step in your career? Join our dynamic team as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) and contribute to transforming the quality of care for individuals with mental health needs, learning disabilities, and autism in acute inpatient settings.
This exciting role is part of the Mental Health Learning Disability and Autism Inpatient Quality Transformation Programme (MHLDA IQTP), a national initiative dedicated to improving outcomes and experiences for service users and their families.
You will need to a Registered Advanced Clinical Practitioner with experience of working in Menta Health Services who has also developed or started to develop, their clinical expertise, to expand to learning disability, autism and/or neurodiversity.
As an ACP, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, person-centered care. This includes:
• Leading the implementation of advanced clinical practices across inpatient services.
• Supporting service users with complex needs, particularly those with learning disabilities and neurodiversity.
• Driving research, quality improvement initiatives, and innovative care approaches.
• Acting as a role model, supervisor, and mentor for less experienced staff within the MDT.
You will be working alongside a multidisciplinary team and fostering collaborative relationships within the Trust and beyond, ensuring inclusivity, resilience, and hope in care delivery.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are now opening. Springfield is close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
• Demonstrates the advanced skills and knowledge to undertake comprehensive person-centred history taking, assessment and formulation; considering biological, psychological, social, spiritual, learning disability and neurodiversity perspectives.
• Critically assesses and determine a person’s capacity to make choices and decisions.
• Uses expertise and decision-making skills to appraise complex, incomplete, ambiguous and conflicting information, synthesizing information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
• Critically applies care and treatment in line with national and local guidance; utilising evidence-based interventions within scope of practice, referring people to other professionals or services as the need requires.
• Demonstrates the ability to prioritise interventions in situations where there are multiple issues, changing priorities and/or safety concerns, especially in the presence of multi-morbidity, complexity and/or unpredictability, learning disability and neurodiversity.
• Demonstrates the critical use of evidence-based evaluation tools and/or outcome measures to assess the efficacy of interventions; collaboratively making appropriate care planning modifications with the person, carers and other relevant parties.
• Demonstrates an in-depth critical understanding of the principles of therapeutics, polypharmacy, de-prescribing, optimal prescribing, adverse and toxic medication effects and medication burden.
• Identifies and leads response, in a timely manner, to the condition and presentation of the person; in the presence of physical health acuity and/or mental health deterioration.
• Keep accurate, contemporaneous documentation and care plans, in line with clinical governance and organisational policy
• Demonstrate a deep and systematic knowledge and understanding of local care systems (including agencies outside of statutory care); collaborating with and referring to them independently and when required.
• Act as clinical lead on the delivery of specialist-specific interventions, working in collaboration with the person, their family and carers, as well as a range of professionals and agencies.
• Demonstrate support, respect and courtesy towards colleagues, working in a professional manner and with Trust values always in mind, respecting the boundaries of the relationship with the person, carers and staff.
• Challenges, where appropriate, professional and organisational boundaries, identify areas for skill/knowledge development and apply these to practice ensuring continuity and high standards of care.
• Exemplifies leadership, resilience and determination, manage situations that are unfamiliar, uncertain, complex or unpredictable and seeks to build confidence in others.
This advert closes on Monday 25 Aug 2025
Are you a passionate and experienced healthcare professional ready to take the next step in your career? Join our dynamic team as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) and contribute to transforming the quality of care for individuals with mental health needs, learning disabilities, and autism in acute inpatient settings.
This exciting role is part of the Mental Health Learning Disability and Autism Inpatient Quality Transformation Programme (MHLDA IQTP), a national initiative dedicated to improving outcomes and experiences for service users and their families.
You will need to a Registered Advanced Clinical Practitioner with experience of working in Menta Health Services who has also developed or started to develop, their clinical expertise, to expand to learning disability, autism and/or neurodiversity.
As an ACP, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, person-centered care. This includes:
• Leading the implementation of advanced clinical practices across inpatient services.
• Supporting service users with complex needs, particularly those with learning disabilities and neurodiversity.
• Driving research, quality improvement initiatives, and innovative care approaches.
• Acting as a role model, supervisor, and mentor for less experienced staff within the MDT.
You will be working alongside a multidisciplinary team and fostering collaborative relationships within the Trust and beyond, ensuring inclusivity, resilience, and hope in care delivery.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are now opening. Springfield is close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
• Demonstrates the advanced skills and knowledge to undertake comprehensive person-centred history taking, assessment and formulation; considering biological, psychological, social, spiritual, learning disability and neurodiversity perspectives.
• Critically assesses and determine a person’s capacity to make choices and decisions.
• Uses expertise and decision-making skills to appraise complex, incomplete, ambiguous and conflicting information, synthesizing information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
• Critically applies care and treatment in line with national and local guidance; utilising evidence-based interventions within scope of practice, referring people to other professionals or services as the need requires.
• Demonstrates the ability to prioritise interventions in situations where there are multiple issues, changing priorities and/or safety concerns, especially in the presence of multi-morbidity, complexity and/or unpredictability, learning disability and neurodiversity.
• Demonstrates the critical use of evidence-based evaluation tools and/or outcome measures to assess the efficacy of interventions; collaboratively making appropriate care planning modifications with the person, carers and other relevant parties.
• Demonstrates an in-depth critical understanding of the principles of therapeutics, polypharmacy, de-prescribing, optimal prescribing, adverse and toxic medication effects and medication burden.
• Identifies and leads response, in a timely manner, to the condition and presentation of the person; in the presence of physical health acuity and/or mental health deterioration.
• Keep accurate, contemporaneous documentation and care plans, in line with clinical governance and organisational policy
• Demonstrate a deep and systematic knowledge and understanding of local care systems (including agencies outside of statutory care); collaborating with and referring to them independently and when required.
• Act as clinical lead on the delivery of specialist-specific interventions, working in collaboration with the person, their family and carers, as well as a range of professionals and agencies.
• Demonstrate support, respect and courtesy towards colleagues, working in a professional manner and with Trust values always in mind, respecting the boundaries of the relationship with the person, carers and staff.
• Challenges, where appropriate, professional and organisational boundaries, identify areas for skill/knowledge development and apply these to practice ensuring continuity and high standards of care.
• Exemplifies leadership, resilience and determination, manage situations that are unfamiliar, uncertain, complex or unpredictable and seeks to build confidence in others.
This advert closes on Monday 25 Aug 2025