Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The post holder is required to deliver an advanced level of clinical practice within adult mental health. Working within the local and nationally agreed frameworks the Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP), will exercise independent judgment to assess, investigate, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate the clinical care and management of patients within their care. The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will work with the multi-disciplinary team providing leadership, sharing knowledge, and engaging in research and promoting evidence-based practice.

The ACP's reporting lines will be via the specified divisional leadership structure. They will work alongside and support the education and development of trainee APs and the wider MDT within the specified Division/service line. The ACP will have key working relationships with all members of the nursing, medical and multidisciplinary teams, trust management teams and wider partners.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.