Clinical Specialist Practitioner

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Clinical Specialist Practitioner to join our West Norfolk Adult Community Mental Health Team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic, multidisciplinary service delivering high-quality, recovery-focused care to adults with complex mental health needs in the community.

The post holder will provide specialist clinical leadership, manage a complex caseload, and contribute to service development, supervision, and quality improvement within the team.

Main duties of the job

Deliver advanced mental health assessments, formulation, and evidence-based interventions for adults with complex and enduring mental health difficulties

Hold and manage a complex caseload, acting as Care Coordinator under the Care Programme Approach (CPA) where appropriate

Undertake comprehensive risk assessments and risk management, including safeguarding and crisis planning

Providespecialist clinical advice, consultation, and leadership within the multidisciplinary team

Support service delivery in line with NSFT policies, NICE guidance, and national standards

Contribute to service development, quality improvement, and audit activity

Provide clinical supervision, mentoring, and support to junior staff and students

Work collaboratively with primary care, social care, voluntary sector, and other partner agencies

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more
• Relocation packages.

Job responsibilities

If you are interested in developing your leadership skills whilst in a clinical role and would you like to work in well supported, dynamic, enthusiastic recovery focused community team we would love to hear from you!

Candidates will require extensive post qualification experience, particularly in community mental health and risk management. Individual competence and suitability will be explored within interview. It is vital that the successful candidate demonstrates values and behaviours reflective of those of our Trust and this is a focus of the interview process. Please see the Trust generic job description and the main duties summary.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

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Person Specification Qualifications

• Mental health nurse, occupational therapist, social worker or equivalent.
• Degree Level Qualification or studied at equivalent level
• Further education in developing clinical skills
• Further education in specialty area

Experience

• Extensive experience of practice within clinical area with proven track record in delivering high quality care
• Extensive experience in supervision and mentorship of others
• Experience of implementing evidence based practice and/or service improvement initiative

Knowledge

• Able to demonstrate sound clinical expertise and knowledge of mental health disorders and their treatments

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.

£47,810 to £54,710 a yeargross per annum