Advanced nurse practitioner

We’re looking for a friendly, motivated, and passionate Band 7 Advanced Nurse Practitioner to come and join our well-established Adult Community Mental Health Team based in Skipton — a beautiful rural market town often known as the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales.

This is a really rewarding role, working across a wide and varied patch that includes both town and countryside communities. You’ll be supporting people with severe and enduring mental health needs through assessment, formulation, care planning, risk management, and prescribing.

What really makes this role special is the team you’ll be joining. We are a warm, welcoming, and highly experienced group who pride ourselves on supporting one another. There’s a strong sense of community here — both within the team and across the area we serve — and we work closely together to provide the best possible care.

We offer a supportive environment where your development genuinely matters, with opportunities to grow, learn, and progress in your career.

Above all, this role is about making a difference — walking alongside people during some of their most difficult times, while helping them build confidence, resilience, and move toward becoming the best version of themselves.

Closing date: 24th June 2026 at Midnight

Shortlisting: 25th June 2026

Interviews: Late June TBC at the Craven Centre

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out physical checks prior to prescribing, initiation and monitoring of medication, and also other medication where necessary, and work with other members of the team to manage and monitor complex presentations within Craven CMHT.
• Prescribe medication within NICE guidance, NMC guidance and local trust policies.
• Work in partnership with service users, families, and carers to achieve identified goals and support recovery and reintegration by adopting a fully holistic approach to needs.
• Work in a supported autonomous manner and plan and prioritise workload.
• Demonstrate effective networking skills to collaborate with a range of other services and external agencies.
• Actively participate in flexible formats of team supervision and support.
• Work as part of the leadership team, providing support and cover for the team leader when required.

Core Values

• We Care – We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference.
• We Listen – We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs.
• We Deliver – We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners.

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance work and home lives.
• Increase mileage rates for > 4500.
• Wide range of health and wellbeing support packages.
• Range of internal and external development and learning opportunities.
• Plus many more benefits.
• Support for the Armed Forces and a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Please note: The Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Zach Bayliss, Job title: Craven CMHT Team Leader, Email address: zacharias.bayliss@bdct.nhs.uk, Telephone number: 01274 221189