Enhanced Response Practitioner

This is a new model of working within our community service line, therefore our enhanced Response Practitioners will work as part of a group to establish this model of care and ensure its success within the borough. The Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner is a semi-autonomous multi-professional clinical leadership role. The post holder will undertake post-graduate training in Advanced Clinical Practice, while consolidating your advanced-level knowledge and skills within your scope of practice. You will gain a high-level of training and practice-based experience through the four pillars of advanced practice (Clinical Practice, Leadership, Education and Research) - receiving a minimum of 20% off-the-job learning.

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 be the Borough Lead for health inequalities and will develop expert knowledge of health inequalities and inclusion health to support the development, planning and delivery of the health inequalities programmes. In collaboration with key partners, the postholder will implement innovative health and wellbeing initiatives and lead the delivery of the Health and Wellbeing implementation plan for local people including our ambition to address health inequalities. The Health Inequality Lead's leadership will drive forward systematic and structural change to improve the health outcomes of the population of their borough to create meaningful improvements in health, wellbeing and equity.

The post holder is expected to place the well-being and safety of service-users/patients above all other considerations, with responsibility to recognise and work within the limits of your professional competence. It is the joint responsibility of the Post Holder, in collaboration with your CSL/Service Manager, Clinical Assessor and Academic Assessor to undertake the ongoing assessment of competence, ensuring this is monitored and recorded in your portfolio and in line with clinical governance and organisational policy. As a professional leader working within the South London Mental Health and Community Partnership, the post holder is required to encourage and foster collaborative and cross-organisational working.