Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Mental Health)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical assessment, triage and management

Act as an autonomous clinician, ensuring clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence.

Provide face-to-face and telephone consultations for patients presenting with a wide range of mental health presentations, including undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions.

Take a comprehensive history and undertake mental health assessment, including risk assessment and safeguarding considerations.

Use expert knowledge and clinical judgement to identify potential diagnoses and agree a management plan with the patient.

Provide mental health triage, prioritising and directing patients to the right care at the right time, including urgent escalation where indicated.

Refer patients for investigations and or appropriate specialist services where appropriate.

Make a diagnosis where appropriate and independently decide on and carry out treatment, including prescribing medicines where qualified.

Ensure continuity of care including follow-up consultations and planned reviews.

Assess and evaluate with patients the effectiveness of treatment and care provided, and make changes as needed.

Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies, promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self-care.

Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs and coordinate care with the wider MDT.

Antipsychotic medication reviews

Undertake antipsychotic medication reviews and monitoring in line with local enhanced service requirements and practice protocols.

Work with the Care Co-ordinator and wider team to ensure recalls, monitoring and follow- up are completed safely and in a timely way.

Quality improvement, QOF and pathway development

Work with the Quality Improvement Team to improve mental health pathways, templates, coding accuracy, registers and recall processes.

Support delivery and evidence of mental health targets including QOF, using good clinical record keeping and data discipline.

Participate in audit and service evaluation activity and contribute to shared learning across the practice.

Identify and escalate themes, risks and quality issues and contribute to practical improvements across HRH sites.

Administrative and professional responsibilities

Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the Practice Team.

Ensure accurate, timely and legible notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients computer record.

Ensure accurate completion of all necessary documentation associated with patient care.

Attend and participate in practice meetings.

Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes.

Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct.

Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.

Maintain continued education by attendance at courses and study days as appropriate for professional development.

Develop and maintain a Personal Learning Plan.

Undertake other duties appropriate to the grade of the post

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Full and unrestricted NMC UK or HCPC registration.
• MSc in Advanced Practice or equivalent or working towards.
• Independent prescribing qualification.
• Evidence of continuing professional development and up-to-date clinical knowledge relevant to the role.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Two years proven record of working autonomously as a Nurse Paramedic Practitioner with patients presenting with a wide range of mental health issues including undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.
• Experience in mental health triage and prioritisation, with safe clinical decision-making.
• Ability to work effectively within a small organisation and multi-disciplinary team.
• Working across professional and organisational boundaries.
• Understanding of clinical governance and quality improvement, including audit and standard setting.
• Excellent analytical and reflective skills.
• Excellent prioritisation and organisational skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Demonstrates leadership skills as well as the ability to be a good team member.
• Responsive, resilient and able to adapt to change and work in challenging environments.
• Able to work confidently and accurately with data and information to support service delivery.
• Commitment to equal opportunity and diversity.
• Ability to work under pressure and prioritise workload using clear systems and strategies.
• Proactive and able to use initiative to complete tasks and projects.
• Maintains confidentiality at all times and responds appropriately to requests for assistance

Desirable

• Knowledge of EMIS
• Previous experience in General 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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Hastings & Rother Healthcare

Address

Hastings Old Town Surgery

Rock-a-nore Road

Hastings

East Sussex

TN34 3DW

Employer's website

https://hastingsandrother.healthcare/ (Opens in a new tab)