Job summary
- Main area
- LS H&F MINT
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term: 12 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-H&F-079-A
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- H and F Claybrook Road
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 per annum pro rata inclusive of 20% HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/02/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 04/03/2026
Employer heading
Band 8 Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Primary Care Mental Health
Band 8a
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) will be embedded within Hammersmith and Fulham Central Primary Care Network (PCN), working collaboratively across five General Practices and the Central MINT (Community Adulth) service to deliver integrated, person-centred care addressing both mental and physical health needs.
The role combines autonomous advanced clinical practice with leadership, education, research, and service development, in line with the NHS Long Term Plan and the Multi-Professional ACP Framework.
The ACP will function as a senior mental health liaison within primary care, undertaking specialist assessments, formulating diagnoses, and delivering evidence-based interventions. The post holder will play a key role in service transformation by embedding mental health expertise within GP practices, strengthening continuity of care, and supporting the development, delivery, and governance of psychologically informed interventions provided by trainees and students.
Main duties of the job
- To be responsibility for achieving defined targets and standards against the key performance and quality indicators.
- Be fully conversant with the relevant indicators, able to analyse performance trends, identifying risk and advising the service manager.
- Prepare accurate performance reports as required, formulate action plans to improve performance if necessary. Assist in the implementation of CIS providing clear leadership and taking action to ensure it is successful.
- To ensure that all risk is managed in the relevant frameworks. To develop, implement and maintain systems, processes and practice in risk management, including the management of Health and Safety.
- To ensure that all aspects of Safeguarding are adhered to and that policies and procedures are followed at all times.
- To be responsible that complaints are investigated fully, and are satisfactorily resolved ensuring a proactive approach is standard as part of the trust and local authority policies.
This role will include working with people from varied cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary; a passion for creating and enabling equality of access to services for all is vital.
Please see the attached Job Pack for full details about this role
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree/ diploma level with a relevant post- qualification or equivalent experience (Advance Clinical Practitioner Training) A qualification, or have undertaken a program of formal training in Clinical Supervision
- Any other relevant leadership or relationship management qualification
- Clinical/post graduate management qualification or equivalent level of experience and proven ability to perform at this level
Desirable criteria
- A professional qualification in a core profession and registration with the associated professional body e.g. RMN, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist - Degree/diploma level supplemented by specialist qualification, training, experience, courses relevant to the CAMHS
- Independent Non-Medical Prescriber Specialist Qualification in CBT, Family Therapy or other appropriate therapy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working with adults with mental health problems in a variety of community settings Experience in primary care, community mental health, or urgent care settings
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Experience of inter-agency working
- Experience of working with diverse communities
- Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance
- Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental health needs, working with people with personality disorder, co-morbidities and complex emotional needs
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with clients with a diagnosis of personality disorder
- Experience of the use of a variety of therapeutic tools
- Experience and skills in risk assessment and management
- Lived experience of mental health problems and involvement in coproduction.
- Experience of delivery therapy and treatment modalities and/or formally trained
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of leadership skills, experience of supervising staff and students. Ability to apply research to practice
- High level of problem solving and planning skills and relationship management
- A successful track record in making improvements in service delivery or operational effectiveness
- Currently engaged in an advanced level of practice and able to demonstrate a high degree of professional autonomy
- Good knowledge of Risk Assessment procedures
- Ability to understand complex assessments and develop comprehensive clinical formulations.
- Ability to reflect on personal experience. Demonstrates capacity and willingness to use clinical supervision
- Knowledge of evidence-based practice, clinical governance and related knowledge for research and audit.
- Good knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to relevant fields.
- Computer skills: advanced keyboard skills and ability to use software programmes including word processing and email.
- Can plan, organise, and prioritise own workload. Ability to work flexibly with autonomy.
- Well-developed skills in written and verbal communication.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- The ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Skills to make significant clinical decisions based on this knowledge.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to plan, analyses, manage and deliver on small scale projects, including understanding data and Electronic Patient Records
- Knowledge of the key drivers behind Primary Care and integrated working
- Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders
- Ability to present information clearly.
- An open and facilitative style of leadership which can be adapted when necessary to ensure delivery of objectives.
- Able to hold professionals and peers to account.
- Ability to consider differences and equalities both in therapy and professional relationships. This includes age, disability, culture and race, sexual orientation and religion/belief systems.
- An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and non-clinical risks.
Management skills
Essential criteria
- Good performance management skills combining clarity around expectations, direction and holding others to account.
- Ability to analyse and interpret performance and financial information, excellent numerical and presentational skills. Demonstrated leadership, supervisory experience, and advanced clinical decision-making skills
Approach/Values
Essential criteria
- Mobility to travel across sites
- Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust
- Can use constructive criticism and openly seeks to review and reflect on own style and presentation.
- Resilient and self-motivated with drive and vision that is able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas.
- Commitment to the aims and values of the NHS combined with high personal integrity.
- Empathy towards the needs of people using mental health and related services, and a vision of how services can make step changes for improvement.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of Human Rights in the delivery of this role
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to work with trauma and contain emotional impact through clinical supervision and team support systems.
- Ability to sustain concentration for sustained periods and where there are several simultaneous demands requiring in-depth mental attention combined with proactive engagement with a patient / group / multidisciplinary team.
- Capacity to monitor and assess own emotional psychological and physical conditions in order to increase clinical efficiency and reduce clinical and personal risk
- Ability to work flexibly with colleagues from a range of disciplines.
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ola Akinlolu
- Job title
- Service manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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