Job summary
- Main area
- Advanced clinical practitioner
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: Although the service runs 7 days a week, the post holder will not be required to work weekends or nights
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 411-COM-26-7860487
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Catkin Building
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Practitioner Crisis Care, HBT & IST
Band 8a
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
- Right to work: We actively promote diversity and inclusion. This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the Health and Care route. We recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit Health and Care Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK
Advanced Clinical Practitioner – Crisis Care Service to join the Crisis care Team.
Band 8a - permanent, full time hours
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our Home Based Treatment and Intensive Support Teams.
The post-holder will:
- provide leadership in relation to clinical operational issues in respect of the Crisis Care, Home Based Treatment and Intensive Support Teams, and will demonstrate substantial clinical leadership, innovation and independence in a professional context and have the ability to problem solve.
- provide highly specialised mental health assessment and short term therapeutic interventions for children and young people experiencing mental health crisis.
- have clinical responsibility for complex therapeutic and risk management work with children and young people who are at risk of needing care away from their homes or local community.
- offer advice and consultation to other professionals across a range of agencies including: primary care, social care, and education.
- provide supervision to team members.
- be responsible for the care planning of interventions and have oversight of the delivery of the care plans by junior staff.
Working for our organisation
In April 2020, the Crisis Care team moved rapidly to a 24hr service to provide support for Children, Young People and families experiencing Mental Health Crisis in Sefton and Liverpool.
The Crisis Care Team operates 24 hours per day, seven days per week and comprises of Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, Nursing, Social Workers, Keyworkers and Assistant Psychologists to provide 24hr urgent response and assessment to children and young people who are experiencing mental health crisis, as well support to parents/carers, and consultation to other professionals involved in their care.
The Home Based Treatment and Intensive Support Team are new services, co-located with our Crisis Care Team. We offer home based support to children, young people and their families throughout Liverpool and Sefton. The main base for this post will be Alder Hey, but the post-holder will work throughout the Liverpool and Sefton footprint. These services operate 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week.
Please note: The successful candidates will be required to work Monday to Friday; weekend and nights are not required in this post.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, please take a look at the job description and person specification attachments.
- The post holders must be able to demonstrate a positive attitude which encompasses our Trust Values of excellence, innovation, openness, respect and together.
- If you are enthusiastic and confident with a friendly and outgoing manner, and a focus on providing the best possible service to patients we would like to hear from you.
Person specification
Qualifications, Experience and Training
Essential criteria
- Qualified in core profession (nursing, OT, SW, Psychologist) with appropriate registration
- Intermediate or diploma level in a recognised therapeutic modality.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Evidence of substantial post qualification competence, incorporating significant experience working within CAMHS at a senior level
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of providing consultation/teaching/ training
- Experience of working with children and young people with ASD and/or LD - and their families and carers
- Experience of clinical supervision
- Experience of leading on developing, delivering and evaluating evidence based clinical care packages.
- MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice.
- V300 – Non-Medical Prescribing Course (or will undertake)
Desirable criteria
- Relevant post graduate qualification in Mental Health related field
- Experience of providing services across traditional services.
- Experience of managing and/or leading on service developments.
- Experience of managing staff.
- Project Management experience
- Effectively managing policy implementation and demonstrable service development work
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Assertively engage young people, families and carers.
- To demonstrate a non- discriminatory attitude regarding race, gender and disability issues.
- Demonstrate commitment to user participation
- Demonstrate a positive attitude.
- Demonstrates skills to contribute to modernisation across a range of diverse services
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to motivate and enthuse colleagues
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to respond effectively to multiple priorities
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates the ability to make sound judgments and generate new ideas in complex situations.
- Able to work autonomously
- Committed to continuing professional development
- Accountable for own professional actions
- Works within professional ethics and Trust policies
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
- Vivienne Crosbie
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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