Mental Health Nurse Enhanced Clinical Practitioner Apprenticeship
INNOVATE ADHD LTD
London (EC2A 4EG)
Closes in 22 days (Wednesday 1 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 8 September 2025
Contents
Summary
Advance your career in mental health with our Enhanced Clinical Practitioner Apprenticeship, specialising in neurodiversity. This programme equips registered mental health nurses with advanced skills to assess, diagnose, and manage complex presentations, with a strong focus on ADHD, autism, and co-occurring conditions.
- Wage
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£30,162 a year
- Training course
- Enhanced clinical practitioner (level 6)
- Hours
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Flexible working hours; Hybrid.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 December 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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5
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Carry out advanced biopsychosocial assessments for patients, with a focus on ADHD, autism, and co-occurring mental health conditions.
- Develop and implement evidence-based care plans, including prescribing and monitoring medication (where qualified).
- Provide therapeutic interventions and support patients and families through shared decision-making.
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing clinical expertise in case discussions and service development.
- Supervise, mentor, and support junior colleagues and students in practice.
- Participate in research, audit, and quality improvement projects to improve mental health and neurodiversity services.
Where you'll work
1 Mark Square
London
EC2A 4EG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH
Training course
Enhanced clinical practitioner (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Conduct systematic literature searches to source evidence to inform enhanced clinical practice.
- Critically appraise evidence and use findings to plan and provide enhanced patient-centred clinical care.
- Provide enhanced clinical care in line with professional registration, code of conduct and defined scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for own decisions, actions and omissions.
- Select available tools, technologies and techniques needed to perform complex and holistic.
- Assimilate, synthesise and apply complex information to promote and advocate best interests of others, upholding the principles of safeguarding and evidence-based practice.
- Undertake holistic patient-centred assessments using available tools, technologies and techniques.
- Analyse the data arising from the assessment process to inform clinical decision-making.
- Identify, request and interpret specialist diagnostics within own scope of practice to inform the delivery and management of specialist care for patients and families.
- Develop, implement and evaluate an enhanced care management plan which may include interventions and referral to other members of the multidisciplinary team or other agencies.
- Prepare and support patients and families to manage their own health and care as independently as possible.
- Interpret, assimilate and draw conclusions using diverse sources of information and evidence to inform clinical reasoning.
- Direct others to sources of information and evidence, coaching and supporting them in applying information and evidence in complex clinical decision making.
- Provide leadership within scope of own role and positive role-modelling for others in the multidisciplinary team.
- Identify training and education needs of others in the workplace.
- Plan and facilitate the delivery of practice-based education, training and assessment activities.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of training and education activities.
- Use communication strategies suitable for a variety of situations including sensitive and distressing topics.
- Use strategies to manage conflict and challenge.
- Discuss complex information with patients, their families, the multi-disciplinary team and other agencies.
- Challenge ineffective systems and processes and support others to identify the need for change within their area of enhanced clinical practice.
- Contribute to quality improvement plans and strategies to support a culture of continuous quality improvement within area of enhanced clinical practice.
- Participate in quality improvement activities, such as audit, service evaluations and research projects within area of enhanced clinical practice.
- Reflect on own and others’ practice using clinical supervision processes.
- Identify and act on evidence of unexpected change or patient deterioration within own scope of practice.
- Manage self and others in unpredictable and complex environments, instigating clinical interventions where protocols may not be available.
- Identify and manage risk to patient safety and others in an unpredictable and complex environment.
- Counsel patients, family, carers and others to manage psychological well-being of self and others.
- Contribute to efficient resource management within the workplace.
- Plan, prioritise and deliver enhanced clinical care within a defined resource.
- Contribute to the drafting of business cases or project proposals.
- Provide mentorship, opportunity for peer-learning and constructive feedback to guide, support, motivate and develop others in the multidisciplinary team.
- Contribute to the appraisal of individuals in the multidisciplinary team.
- Conduct systematic literature searches to source evidence to inform enhanced clinical practice.
- Critically appraise evidence and use findings to plan and provide enhanced patient-centred clinical care.
- Provide enhanced clinical care in line with professional registration, code of conduct and defined scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for own decisions, actions and omissions.
- Select available tools, technologies and techniques needed to perform complex and holistic.
- Assimilate, synthesise and apply complex information to promote and advocate best interests of others, upholding the principles of safeguarding and evidence-based practice.
- Undertake holistic patient-centred assessments using available tools, technologies and techniques.
- Analyse the data arising from the assessment process to inform clinical decision-making.
- Identify, request and interpret specialist diagnostics within own scope of practice to inform the delivery and management of specialist care for patients and families.
- Develop, implement and evaluate an enhanced care management plan which may include interventions and referral to other members of the multidisciplinary team or other agencies.
- Prepare and support patients and families to manage their own health and care as independently as possible.
- Interpret, assimilate and draw conclusions using diverse sources of information and evidence to inform clinical reasoning.
- Direct others to sources of information and evidence, coaching and supporting them in applying information and evidence in complex clinical decision making.
- Provide leadership within scope of own role and positive role-modelling for others in the multidisciplinary team.
- Identify training and education needs of others in the workplace.
- Plan and facilitate the delivery of practice-based education, training and assessment activities.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of training and education activities.
- Use communication strategies suitable for a variety of situations including sensitive and distressing topics.
- Use strategies to manage conflict and challenge.
- Discuss complex information with patients, their families, the multi-disciplinary team and other agencies.
- Challenge ineffective systems and processes and support others to identify the need for change within their area of enhanced clinical practice.
- Contribute to quality improvement plans and strategies to support a culture of continuous quality improvement within area of enhanced clinical practice.
- Participate in quality improvement activities, such as audit, service evaluations and research projects within area of enhanced clinical practice.
- Reflect on own and others’ practice using clinical supervision processes.
- Identify and act on evidence of unexpected change or patient deterioration within own scope of practice.
- Manage self and others in unpredictable and complex environments, instigating clinical interventions where protocols may not be available.
- Identify and manage risk to patient safety and others in an unpredictable and complex environment.
- Counsel patients, family, carers and others to manage psychological well-being of self and others.
- Contribute to efficient resource management within the workplace.
- Plan, prioritise and deliver enhanced clinical care within a defined resource.
- Contribute to the drafting of business cases or project proposals.
- Provide mentorship, opportunity for peer-learning and constructive feedback to guide, support, motivate and develop others in the multidisciplinary team.
- Contribute to the appraisal of individuals in the multidisciplinary team.
Training schedule
Requirements
Essential qualifications
Other in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
Other requirements
Registered Mental Health Nurse or Adult Nurse with Mental Health Experience.
About this employer
INNOVATE ADHD LTD is a specialist mental health clinic dedicated to transforming ADHD care through innovation, compassion, and clinical excellence. We provide high-quality, patient-centred assessment and treatment services for individuals with ADHD, combining the latest evidence-based approaches with a personalised care pathway. Our experienced clinicians, all committed to improving outcomes and accessibility for neurodiverse individuals. As a forward-thinking organisation, we embrace technology, continuous learning, and inclusive practice. We are proud to support the next generation of mental health professionals through structured training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships designed to equip learners with real-world skills and meaningful career progression. https://innovateadhd.com
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Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
For your Mental Health Nurse Enhanced Clinical Practitioner Apprenticeship, the expected career progression typically looks like this:
Enhanced Practice Roles
After completing the apprenticeship, you will be recognised as a highly skilled practitioner able to work more autonomously in specialist mental health settings (e.g., neurodiversity clinics, acute wards, community teams).
Advanced Clinical Practice
Many apprentices move into Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) roles, often at Band 7/8a in the NHS, where they take on responsibilities such as complex caseload management, prescribing, clinical supervision, and service development.
Leadership & Specialist Posts
Opportunities include becoming a Clinical Lead, Nurse Consultant, or Specialist Practitioner in areas such as ADHD, autism, trauma, or crisis care.
Education & Training
With experience, you could progress into roles like Practice Educator, Lecturer in Nursing, or Clinical Supervisor, contributing to the training of the next generation of practitioners.
Further Academic Pathways
You may choose to progress into postgraduate study, such as a Master’s degree in Advanced Clinical Practice, Prescribing qualifications, or a Doctorate in Clinical Research or Nursing Practice.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
INNOVATE ADHD LTD
HR
HR-application@innovateadhd.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000340773.
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Closes in 22 days (Wednesday 1 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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