Consultant Nurse and NMP Lead for Physical/Mental Health Services

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is unique in combining physical and mental health, learning disability, community and adult social care services in a single Trust across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent and Shropshire supporting the provision of a truly integrated care framework across health and social care services. As Consultant Nurse, you will provide clinical and professional leadership to enable the delivery of the Trust Medicines Optimisation strategy and work effectively across all four pillars of consultant practice (expert clinical practice, leadership, education and research). The post holder will be an autonomous clinical practitioner leading on the provision of expert practice in medicines optimisation ensuring better value and improved patient outcomes. The post holder will lead on developing and delivering multi-disciplinary advanced clinical practice and research, prescribing competence, quality, and safety supporting multiple professional disciplines across the organisation. In conjunction with the Trust Medicines Safety officer, you will lead on embedding the principles of medicines safety and medicines optimisation into clinical practice and contribute to policy developments to support safe practice. MPFT Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Directorate are looking for a dynamic, forward thinking Clinical Leader.

As a senior member of the clinical team, you will be expected to represent the Trust and participate in relevant local, regional and national sector wide forums related to non-medical prescribing and medicines optimisation. You will provide expert advice, clinical supervision and training to the non-medical prescribing workforce and partner organisations and have an opportunity to contribute to research and development projects within the service. This role will be extremely rewarding, and requires a motivated, dynamic individual who is experienced in working at an operational level with a range of stakeholders and a track record for service development and delivering to agreed targets. The successful candidate will be provided with the support of a well-established team, opportunities to develop and embed their careers, and to make a difference to patients' lives. You will be a qualified nurse registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council with excellent leadership and communication skills and have previous experience in education, training, quality improvement and policy development. The postholder is expected to deliver clinical care for at least 25% of their job plan with remaining time dedicated to leadership, education and training, quality improvement and research.