Multi Professional Approved Clinician MPACNHS

Job summary

Approved Clinician & Multi-Professional Approved Clinician MPAC

Band 8C Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation Services Livewell Southwest

Hours: 30 hours per week 0.8 WTE, flexible working arrangements will be considered.

Are you ready to shape the future of mental health services while delivering transformational, person-centred care?

This is an exciting opportunity for an Approved Clinician to work within The Cove, a rehabilitation and recovery in-patient service with individuals with complex and severe mental illness. We are looking for an Approved Clinician to provide clinical leadership for the 6 step-down beds within the unit. The size of the service enables highly personalised care, strong therapeutic relationships and meaningful multidisciplinary team working.

This is more than a clinical role. This is a unique opportunity to shape a newly developing service, lead at consultant level, and make a lasting impact on the lives of people with complex mental health needs.

If you are looking for an innovative role, with flexible working conditions within one of the countries most beautiful counties, we would love to hear from you.

Applications are welcomed from Approved Clinicians from all eligible professional backgrounds. This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.

For role enquiries: [email protected] or [email protected]

This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.

Main duties of the job

The Role Lead, Decide, Transform

As an Approved Clinician you will hold a pivotal leadership position across the recovery inpatient pathway, with responsibility that goes far beyond individual caseload management.

You will

Provide Exercise Consultant-Level Clinical Authority

Act as Responsible Clinician (RC) for patients detained under the Mental Health Act

Hold full accountability for complex, high-risk clinical decisions and outcomes

Lead on assessment, formulation, and delivery of highly specialised interventions

Provide expert evidence at tribunals, courts, and statutory hearings

Lead Recovery Focused Care

Clinically lead care within male step-down beds at The Cove

Promote trauma informed, person centred & evidence-based practice

Support patients to achieve meaningful recovery goals and increased independence

Work collaboratively with families, carers and partner agencies

Facilitate successful discharge planning and community reintegration

Work across the Mental health System

Develop strong partnerships with Community Mental Health Teams

Maintain effective links with acute inpatient services

Collaborate with housing providers, social care and voluntary sector partners

Support seamless care pathways and effective patient flow

Contribute to pathway development across inpatient and community services

All staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.

Please note that we may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline.

Job description

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Provide strategic professional leadership across teams and services.

Lead workforce development strategy.

Design and deliver specialist education and training.

Create a high-performance, psychologically safe culture aligned with organisational values.

Promote the workplace as a learning environment, promoting learning opportunities for all staff and encourage enquiry both within and external to the team/organisation.

Influence senior stakeholders including Executive Directors and system partners.

Contribute to a safe working environment for both the person, carer and staff.

Organise meetings/groups to support clinical work and CPD.

Practice autonomously, demonstrating a self-directed approach to the delivery of high quality, safe and effective care within the context of a multi-disciplinary team.

The post holder will ensure that personal practice and the practice of those s/he supervises adheres to relevant Codes of Conduct, legislation and policies and procedures.

Work with the Executive Directors and Clinical Director to deliver the clinical standards, clinical quality objectives and priorities, in partnership promoting a service model which is clinically led and operationally supported.

Contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.

Contribute to service line financial planning and resource allocation decisions.

Lead on identifying efficiency, productivity and value-based care opportunities. As a senior leader in the service, we expect you to contribute to maintaining the financial viability of the service including where necessary looking at efficiencies and income generation.

Ensure that the service delivers evidence-based practice interventions within budget, and to have joint responsibility with professional and managerial peers to maintain a healthy budget on a consistent basis.

Have a personal duty of care to ensure all equipment is used safely and effectively, following manufacturers instructions, immediately reporting any defects in accordance with local procedures. To be mindful to the overall environment reporting appropriately all health and safety concerns.

In the absence of suitable materials to develop resources such as information leaflets, pathways, self-help booklets, assessment forms, clinical tools and guidelines to support such service practice development.

Provide strategic oversight of clinical governance, quality and safety across the service.

Lead serious incident reviews and organisational learning.

Liaise with MHA office to ensure all paperwork related to a patients detention under the MHA (1983) is up to date, correct and reflects their current legal status.

Engage in CPD in line with requirements for AC/RC role and Professional registration.

Actively participate in development activities including appraisal, clinical supervision and peer review of own practice.

Practice effective time management to respond to competing priorities, balancing a clinical caseload and other responsibilities such as team education, service development and research.

Provide clinical leadership to ensure effective MDT based practice leading to sustainable, safe and effective service delivery.

Responsible for documenting plans of care and for ensuring that plans remain current and ensuring high standards of record keeping.

Seek support and advice from senior clinicians in respect of issues or challenges with individual patients.

Ensure compliance with regulatory standards (CQC, NICE) at service and system level.

Exercise full Responsible Clinician duties with authority over complex, high-risk and high-profile cases.

Lead on reducing admissions, improving flow and developing alternatives to inpatient care.

Drive patient-centred innovation and co-production approaches.

Demonstrate the eight core competencies of an Approved Clinician and exercise the role of Responsible Clinician adhering to the MHA and MHA Code of Practice.

Making highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options, taking into consideration both theoretical and therapeutic models, and factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.

Contributing to decisions about admission to other services through the completion of pre-admission assessments. This includes reducing the risk of admission through crisis care offers, responding to risk proactively to reduce hospital attendance and reviewing clinical risk formulation to manage patients safely in the community.

Provide expert testimony at tribunals and courts as a senior authoritative voice.

Provision of statutory reports as and when required.

Exercise all responsibilities in statutory decision making in regard to patient care.

Identify patients that may require Mental Health Act Assessment and coordinate assessments.

Provide advanced specialist and highly expert advice, guidance and consultation contributing directly to clients diagnosis, formulation, and intervention plan.

Assess health care needs, based on highly developed skills and knowledge.

Plan and coordinate the physical healthcare needs of patients.

Plan, develop and manage specialist packages of care, using PCF.

Draw on a diverse range of knowledge in making decisions to determine evidence-based therapeutic interventions.

Provide highly specialist advanced practice level contribution to risk assessment, risk management and the development of multidisciplinary treatment plans and take responsibility for ensuring necessary documentation is completed as a means to improve health, safety and improve practice.

Use professional judgement in managing highly complex and unpredictable care events and capture the learning from these experiences.

Lead formal MDT reviews for patients and lead/contribute when necessary to multi-disciplinary and agency meetings.

Support service users to make informed choices about their plan of care.

Ensure that health promotion and prevention activities factor in an individuals plan of care.

Identify, minimise and report risks of danger, harm or abuse.

Responsible for ensuring the delivery of high standards of care through employing appropriate clinical governance frameworks.

Share information relating to assessment and care plans with clients, carers and families in a responsive, empathic manner.

Ensure a safety culture which assures adherence to organisations values.

Providing an evidence-based treatment pathway for Adults of Working Age.

Ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the diverse communities which make up the clients of this service.

Ensuring an equitable service which meets patients needs and develop additional treatment packages within the treatment strategy to meet those needs.

Where decisions need to be made about psychotropic medication outside the competency of the post holder, this should be referred to a medical Approved Clinician (AC) who will assume responsibility for that decision in collaboration with the Responsible Clinician (RC) or to another appropriately competent prescriber.

Support the Medical Director, senior managers and directorate manager on information to assure that learning arises from patient feedback, compliments, complaints, concerns and untoward incidents.

Responsibility for implementation of policy and/or service developments.

Lead major service transformation programmes across recovery services.

Shape and implement Trust and system-wide strategy aligned with NHS priorities.

Influence Integrated Care System (ICS), commissioners and regional partners.

Develop new models of care and pathways beyond the organisation.

Contributing to the development and implementation of evidence-based protocols, documentation processes, standards, policies and clinical guidelines.

Use expert knowledge to inform and develop treatment protocols.

As a Consultant level senior staff, the post holder will contribute to organisational strategies and policies and implement the organisational systems.

Undertake research and development activities within the recovery services and MPAC role.

Regularly undertakes audit activities.

Where possible, clinical practice is based upon research evidence and disseminated to other staff.

Evaluate information and make appropriate judgements regarding its appropriateness for integration into practice.

Post holder to provide advice, consultation and assessment across the organisation.

Continually evaluate/audit ones own practice and that of others.

Review decisions made concerning seclusion and long-term segregation of those detained in hospital, reconciling inter and intra professional differences of opinion, judgements on complex clinical issues.

Promote and provide evidence of assurance of a learning environment culture, which can evidence implementation of national and local recommendations.

Promote and engage in a positive, open and transparent culture, to support and enable the delivery of Livewell Southwest Strategic Objectives. This will include coaching as a senior clinician.

Provide a strategic response and contribution to the development of procedures, monitor compliance, and provide service line assurance that clinical standards are being met in mental health practice. This will include advising on remedial action should standards not be being achieved consistently.

Contribute to the development, delivery and evaluation of the strategic objectives, to ensure that services are patient-centred and accessible.

Ensure that any complaints and significant events are investigated in full, preparing detailed reports with action plans in liaison with Patient Safety Team, Directorate Managers or Heads of Service.

About us

Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.

As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values, kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve.

We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.

We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.

Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.