International Nurses Day - A week in the life of a mental health advanced practitioner

To celebrate International Nurses Day 2023, we sat down with our mental health advanced practitioners to learn what a typical week is like for them.

Day 1

Starting the week, you will be hot-desking out of Peterborough ambulance station. As the mental health specialist nurse, part of your role is to present mental health specific evidence and to support and develop future service provisions with the Integrated Care System (ICS) and other local mental health providers.

You will also be expected to co-present with ICS partners at national NHS England and Improvement mental health group to generate and share ideas to support winter resilience planning!

Day 2

Another day, another hot desk! Today is King's Lynn ambulance station. Today you need to arrange and chair multi-agency professional meetings for the purpose of reflection and learning when outcomes have not met the service or users’ expectations.

Part of your day will be spent co-producing and delivering reports, specifically to support staff development within the field of mental health to support career progression.

Day 3

Today you would be based at Norwich emergency operations centre (EOC). The start of the day will be spent delivering specific mental health education sessions to staff of different roles across operations and the control room via Microsoft teams.            

Later, you will be helping to co-design and co-produce surveys and engagement sessions, with people who have mental health lived experience. This includes producing training sessions specifically to address feedback from the “you said, we did” surveys.

Day 4

Day 4 is spent working out of local mental health trusts and well-being hubs, to design and support implementation of pathways for crews to use. These are designed to support people accessing the right care in the right environment. You will be expected to support joint working with NHS 111 option 2 healthcare professional (HCP) and agree handover tools for crews to follow.

You will also be supporting crews with mental health advice whilst on scene and offer clinical supervision for crews within joint mental health roles.

Day 5

The final day is spent working at the hot-desk at Melbourn Trust HQ.  You will have an active role within EEAST’s specialist mental health service development planning, with businesses and local partnership teams.

Does this role sound like it could be for you? We are hiring mental health practitioners now!

Visit the 'our vacancies' section of our website to apply today.