Advanced Clinical Practitioner

About The Role UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE + MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO EVERY LIFE We have an exciting opportunity for a part-time Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our Integrated Mental Health team with an element of shared care across the wider team at HMP Wakefield, a category A prison in Wakefield. The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Mental Health) will be a patient-facing, non-managerial role and play a pivotal role in delivering high quality, evidence based mental health care within the prison environment.

Exciting opportunity to develop in the prison, PPG pathway training and development offered, parking on site.

Hours Working 37.5 hours a week, either working 4x long days 8-6 or 8-4 Monday to Friday.

Salary This position is full time, you’ll receive an annual salary up to £66,792 per annum FTE - depending on experience.

How will we support you?

• Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course
• Competency framework
• Regional and national career development opportunities
• Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
• Support from the wider team

Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks. What you'll be doing

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, your responsibilities will vary. You will:

• Provide advanced assessment, formulation, diagnosis, and management of individuals presenting with a wide range of mental health conditions, including severe mental illness, personality disorder, trauma related needs, complex dual diagnoses.
• You will promote best practice, clinical supervision, and a culture of reflection and learning, by pro-actively leading and motivating the team. You will support and work alongside clinical leads and team members to deliver training sessions to healthcare and prison staff on mental health, risk, trauma, behaviour management.
• You will participate in internal and external inspections, reviews and professional meetings which will drive quality improvement and contribute to service transformation projects within the mental health pathway
• Work alongside the clinical lead to contribute to service development, provide clinical leadership across pathways, and support the delivery of trauma informed, person centred, and safe care.

If you are interested in career development, we have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and experience, which include both internal and external options for development and learning.

It doesn’t stop there … we also offer:

• Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
• Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
• 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it

What we'll look for in you

The Health in Justice team at Practice Plus Group makes a real difference across over 53 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We’re the UK’s leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 patients in secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their background.

Practice Plus Group’s purpose is to Unlock your best work life and we stand by our core values:

• we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated
• we act with integrity
• we embrace diversity
• we strive to do things better together

We are looking for caring, compassionate but also driven professionals who can help us drive our vision for a fair and inclusive healthcare access to all.

Qualifications required:

• Registered Nurse – Mental Health, with current NMC registration. We will consider applicants from other professional disciplines who can demonstrate experience of working with patients with complex MH conditions

• Independent/supplementary prescriber qualification

• MSc in Advanced Practice

• Experience of working within mental health services, ideally in secure mental health, crisis, acute, community settings and good knowledge of the MHA

• Understanding of risk management, self-harm prevention, suicide prevention, trauma-informed care

• Drive quality improvement, clinical audit, governance and contribute to service transformation projects

• Provide clinical supervision, mentorship, and support to Band 7 clinicians, RMNs, HCAs, and students.