Enhanced Clinical Practitioner

An exciting band 7 opportunity has arisen in the Older Peoples services for interested individuals to work as Advanced Clinical Practitioners. This is an opportunity to be part of dynamic multi-disciplinary teams that assess all referrals for old age adults with mental health needs and resident in the service's local area.

The post requires an individual who is visionary, innovative, assertive, autonomous, thrives under pressure, compassionate and can bring their experience and expertise to this senior role within our Older People Community Team, ensuring that they can provide a responsive and co-ordinated Enhanced clinical Service and train in Advanced Clinical Practice, meeting the four pillars of clinical practice, providing training and development, participating in QI projects and research and acting as a compassionate leader.

You will be part of the Older Peoples Community Mental Health Team and expected to work closely with the services within the Older People Care Service Line, the Community Service Line, Primary Care, the Local Authority and with family and carers in a collaborative and professional manner. In return, you will have the opportunity to be supported to develop further your clinical knowledge and skills and if you wish to achieve further promotion within the organization this is something that we are keen to develop and nurture., As the Enhanced Clinical Practitioner, you will be part of a community patient led service and work with older adults of age 75, and above, who have a functional mental health condition and with older adults who primarily have a diagnosis of Dementia.

These new roles will be introduced into our 3 boroughs to improve the community systems that are already in place, providing additional senior support and capacity to assess, provide brief interventions, and review patients within 24-48 hrs when they are escalating towards a mental health crisis. In essence, this role will act as a senior liaison nurse for Older People community services and for patients who need to be seen quickly but safely outside of other crisis services such as A&E, Crisis Care etc.

The initial assessment will determine the crisis response needed, and this will be carried out by the Band 7 ECP. It is hoped that the addition of this new role will free up the time from other community staff in our community teams to carry out their scheduled clinical appointments rather than needing to respond to patient crisis escalations at short notice.

You will be responsible for the monitoring and assessing patients whose mental health is deteriorating, or behaviour is escalating in the community with your team and using various IT systems, you will work closely with the service's Senior Management Team to ensure the services delivered are of high quality and meet nationally agreed targets and local KPIs.

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'.

This is a great time to join us. 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.

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 ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.