Enhanced Clinical Practitioner

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.

We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' however we aim to be 'outstanding'.

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".

When you join us, you'll be part of something special - an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.

As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Older Peoples services. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team that assess all referrals for old age adults with mental health needs and resident in the service's local area.

You will be part of the Wandsworth OP Functional RST 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.

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 Wandsworth Older People Community Team, ensuring that they can provide a responsive and co‑ordinated Enhanced Clinical Service, providing training and development, participating in QI projects and research, and acting as a compassionate leader.

The Enhanced Clinical Practitioner is a semi-autonomous multi-professional clinical leadership role. The post holder should demonstrate extensive older adult practice-based experience aligned to the four pillars of advanced practice (Clinical Practice, Leadership, Education and Research). The Enhanced Practitioner aims to ensure the service operates in a safe, effective and efficient manner, promoting a whole system approach to mental health. The post-holder will support strategic leadership in relation to service improvement and quality evaluation.

The post holder should help to foster a culture that encourages and enables individuals and carers to have an active role in identifying, planning and meeting individual needs.

The post holder will develop their skills and knowledge to deliver, and lead on the delivery of, high quality safe and contemporary care, ensuring consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence; including promoting population health, improving personal outcomes, contributing towards service evaluation, while leading and developing research and quality improvement initiatives. The post holder will support patients and carers presenting with complex needs, aiming to develop their resilience and relapse prevention…