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.
Main duties of the job
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.
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration according to the field of practice
- Masters level qualification (Level 7) in advanced clinical practice or equivalent qualification
Experience
- Significant and in-depth post qualifying clinical experience
- Evidence of working effectively at a senior level in a multi-disciplinary health and social care setting
Skills
- Provide leadership by setting a clear direction in service planning and leading discussions on the requirements to meet a safe, innovative, modern and high-quality service
- Knowledge of various approaches to physical/mental health assessment
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
To be confirmed Haywood Hospital or Trust HQ, Stafford
The closing date is 02 July 2026
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