Multi Professional Approved and Responsible Clinician (MPARC) inHastings inHastings PUBLISHED 21 NOV 2024
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Are you an ambitious and experienced Consultant Psychologist ready to take the next step in your career in an environment where you will be supported to grow & develop? A unique & exciting opportunity has arisen as part of our transformation of urgent and acute care. This new post is for a Multi Professional Approved Clinician within our mental health services in East Sussex.
Opportunity open to
either
Consultant Practitioner Psychologists who have achieved Approved Clinician status. Applicants will be already approved by the appropriate authority to act as an Approved Clinician in England for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended 20. You will be appointed at an 8D.
Or
Consultant Practitioner Psychologists who can commit to training to become an Approved Clinician
.
MPACs in dedicated training roles will receive full support to undertake the 18 month training & completion of the portfolio in readiness for submission to the local approvals panel. The MPAC in training roles are banded at 8b(practitioners already working at 8C will maintain their 8C grade & terms and conditions for the duration of their training). On completion of the programme & following successful approval the MPAC in training will progress to a band 8D Multi-Professional Approved and Responsible Clinician post.
The post holder will work into the inpatient & urgent care pathway in Hastings.
For more information on this role please see attached JD for Qualified & Trainee.
Qualified
Clinician:
Lead in a specialist field of clinical and professional practice: namely as a Consultant Psychologist / Responsible Clinician.To be responsible, in collaboration with operational management and multi-professional colleagues, for the development and implementation of this specialist field of practice/training/research, within locality and across the Trust. To carry out responsibilities as job planned within the service as a consultant practitioner psychologist and approved / responsible clinician.
Please refer to Qualified JD for more details
Trainee Clinician:
This is a 12 - 18 month Approved Clinician (AC) training post that forms part of the very senior clinical workforce. The post holder is expected to be at consultant level capability as defined by the HEE document. The postholder will develop the eight core competencies of an Approved Clinician (AC), accessing support from a variety of professional backgrounds, divisions and organisations. This broadening of the trainee's knowledge and clinical experience is vital towards submitting a successful portfolio of evidence to the regional MHA Approvals Panel. AC status must be achieved within 18 months of commencing in role.
Please refer to Trainee JD for more details
Qualified:
- Hold a specialist clinical caseload and maintain a very high / statutory degree of clinical responsibility for patients on caseload, while providing consultant level clinical services within a designated care group to a group of patients who may or may not be managed under the Mental Health Act 1983.
- Provide a very senior / overall clinical leadership function to MDT colleagues and others within a designated care group, for designated patients, as a Consultant Psychologist and in a statutory clinical lead role, as Responsible Clinician.
- Provide expert guidance, advice, consultation and supervision to own professional group and to MDT colleagues, and patient.
- Contribute and lead on organisational, policy and clinical service developments and utilise advanced skills in research, quality improvement, outcome measurement, audit, teaching, training and lecturing to support evidence-based practice and high standards of service delivery within the designated care group, completing research and quality improvement projects as required, and supporting others to do so.
Trainee:
Being accountable for their own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist care to patients with severe and enduring mental health conditions or learning disabilities; this may include psychiatric, physical and social co-morbidity and involve significantly challenging behaviours (with risk of physical aggression).
Planning individual patient care and where appropriate co-ordinating care within the MDT and external agencies.
Undertaking the role of Trainee Approved Clinician for an identified client group incorporating the eight clinical competencies below, as per Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) guidance:
1. A comprehensive understanding of the roles, legal responsibilities and key functions of the AC and RC.
2. An applied knowledge of the legal and policy framework. This includes mental health and all other relevant legislation, codes of practice, policy and guidance and relevant NICE guidance.
Please refer to JD for full details
Are you an ambitious and experienced Consultant Psychologist ready to take the next step in your career in an environment where you will be supported to grow & develop? A unique & exciting opportunity has arisen as part of our transformation of urgent and acute care. This new post is for a Multi Professional Approved Clinician within our mental health services in East Sussex.
Opportunity open to
either
Consultant Practitioner Psychologists who have achieved Approved Clinician status. Applicants will be already approved by the appropriate authority to act as an Approved Clinician in England for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended 20. You will be appointed at an 8D.
Or
Consultant Practitioner Psychologists who can commit to training to become an Approved Clinician
.
MPACs in dedicated training roles will receive full support to undertake the 18 month training & completion of the portfolio in readiness for submission to the local approvals panel. The MPAC in training roles are banded at 8b(practitioners already working at 8C will maintain their 8C grade & terms and conditions for the duration of their training). On completion of the programme & following successful approval the MPAC in training will progress to a band 8D Multi-Professional Approved and Responsible Clinician post.
The post holder will work into the inpatient & urgent care pathway in Hastings.
For more information on this role please see attached JD for Qualified & Trainee.
Qualified
Clinician:
Lead in a specialist field of clinical and professional practice: namely as a Consultant Psychologist / Responsible Clinician.To be responsible, in collaboration with operational management and multi-professional colleagues, for the development and implementation of this specialist field of practice/training/research, within locality and across the Trust. To carry out responsibilities as job planned within the service as a consultant practitioner psychologist and approved / responsible clinician.
Please refer to Qualified JD for more details
Trainee Clinician:
This is a 12 - 18 month Approved Clinician (AC) training post that forms part of the very senior clinical workforce. The post holder is expected to be at consultant level capability as defined by the HEE document. The postholder will develop the eight core competencies of an Approved Clinician (AC), accessing support from a variety of professional backgrounds, divisions and organisations. This broadening of the trainee's knowledge and clinical experience is vital towards submitting a successful portfolio of evidence to the regional MHA Approvals Panel. AC status must be achieved within 18 months of commencing in role.
Please refer to Trainee JD for more details
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Qualified:
- Hold a specialist clinical caseload and maintain a very high / statutory degree of clinical responsibility for patients on caseload, while providing consultant level clinical services within a designated care group to a group of patients who may or may not be managed under the Mental Health Act 1983.
- Provide a very senior / overall clinical leadership function to MDT colleagues and others within a designated care group, for designated patients, as a Consultant Psychologist and in a statutory clinical lead role, as Responsible Clinician.
- Provide expert guidance, advice, consultation and supervision to own professional group and to MDT colleagues, and patient.
- Contribute and lead on organisational, policy and clinical service developments and utilise advanced skills in research, quality improvement, outcome measurement, audit, teaching, training and lecturing to support evidence-based practice and high standards of service delivery within the designated care group, completing research and quality improvement projects as required, and supporting others to do so.
Trainee:
Being accountable for their own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist care to patients with severe and enduring mental health conditions or learning disabilities; this may include psychiatric, physical and social co-morbidity and involve significantly challenging behaviours (with risk of physical aggression).
Planning individual patient care and where appropriate co-ordinating care within the MDT and external agencies.
Undertaking the role of Trainee Approved Clinician for an identified client group incorporating the eight clinical competencies below, as per Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) guidance:
1. A comprehensive understanding of the roles, legal responsibilities and key functions of the AC and RC.
2. An applied knowledge of the legal and policy framework. This includes mental health and all other relevant legislation, codes of practice, policy and guidance and relevant NICE guidance.
Please refer to JD for full details
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