Job summary
Fixed Term: 2 Years | Full-Time: 37.5 hours per weekLocation: Springfield Hospital
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.
Main duties of the job
About the Role: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.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical care and key responsibilities
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 persons 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
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical care and key responsibilities
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 persons 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
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- To be a qualified Healthcare Professional
- To be a qualified independent prescriber
- To hold current professional registration with respective professional body
- To hold a PGDip in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent credentialed programme
- Portfolio of evidence for advance clinical practice consolidation
- Evidence of continuing professional development in MHLDA/neurodiversity
Desirable
- MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
- Evidence of education/training in specialist area (i.e. therapies, interventions, service-specialism)
- Post graduate certificate in education
- Completed Oliver McGowen Part 2 training. (this will be essential once training more widely available)
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of leading the delivery of care for a diverse population
- Experience working within healthcare services at an advanced level of practice
- Advanced level understanding of specialist-specific disorders and their corresponding evidence-based interventions including LD and neurodiversity
- Contemporary knowledge of relevant legislation and healthcare policies
- Applied understanding of issues relating to confidentiality and mental capacity
- Applied knowledge of safeguarding, inclusion and equality
- Experience of leading research/quality improvement initiatives, developing and evaluating new ways of working
- Experience of working in working age adult community/inpatient mental health services
Desirable
- Experience of writing for publication and/or presenting to professionals and the public
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- To be a qualified Healthcare Professional
- To be a qualified independent prescriber
- To hold current professional registration with respective professional body
- To hold a PGDip in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent credentialed programme
- Portfolio of evidence for advance clinical practice consolidation
- Evidence of continuing professional development in MHLDA/neurodiversity
Desirable
- MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
- Evidence of education/training in specialist area (i.e. therapies, interventions, service-specialism)
- Post graduate certificate in education
- Completed Oliver McGowen Part 2 training. (this will be essential once training more widely available)
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of leading the delivery of care for a diverse population
- Experience working within healthcare services at an advanced level of practice
- Advanced level understanding of specialist-specific disorders and their corresponding evidence-based interventions including LD and neurodiversity
- Contemporary knowledge of relevant legislation and healthcare policies
- Applied understanding of issues relating to confidentiality and mental capacity
- Applied knowledge of safeguarding, inclusion and equality
- Experience of leading research/quality improvement initiatives, developing and evaluating new ways of working
- Experience of working in working age adult community/inpatient mental health services
Desirable
- Experience of writing for publication and/or presenting to professionals and the public
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
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).
