Advanced Clinical Practitioner
The closing date is 28 June 2026
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join an innovative and evolving community service delivering high-quality, person-centred care closer to home. This role is central to a programme of community redesign, focused on improving outcomes through proactive, integrated care.
Working autonomously within your scope of practice, you will assess, diagnose, treat, and manage patients with complex and often undifferentiated conditions. Using advanced clinical reasoning, you will support independence, reduce unnecessary hospital admissions, and promote positive health outcomes.
You will be a key member of a multidisciplinary team, working collaboratively with GPs, community nursing teams, geriatricians, allied health professionals, and wider partners to deliver coordinated, holistic care.
As a senior clinician, you will provide clinical leadership, support service development, and contribute to innovative pathways and quality improvement initiatives. You will help ensure care is safe, effective, and aligned with evidence‑based practice and national standards.
A strong focus on patient experience, safety, infection prevention, and continuous development is essential, alongside the ability to build trusting relationships with patients, carers, and colleagues.
This is an excellent opportunity to help shape the future of community healthcare within a transforming service.
Main duties of the job
- Assess, diagnose, instigate appropriate investigations, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis.
- Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly.
- Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate interventions/treatments for patients with complex needs.
- Proactively identify, diagnose, and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long‑term condition (as appropriate).
- Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug and non‑drug based treatment methods into a management plan.
- Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice.
- Work with patients in order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments. Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication regimes, side effects and interactions.
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self‑care.
- To demonstrate effective and compassionate communication and leadership skills to optimise your impact.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Professional Registration with either NMC, GPhC or HCPC
- MSc level education. Such as: MSc Advanced Practice
- Equivalent / other MSc mapped to the four pillars of advanced practice.
- Demonstrated competence at an advanced practice level through Royal College or HEE Credentialing
- Relevant role specific qualifications (i.e. Advanced Resuscitation - ALS/EPLS/ATLS or surgical skills qualification)
- Leadership/management course or validated portfolio evidence (if not part of MSc level qualification)
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Completed ACP training within relevant clinical field
- Non-Medical Prescribing if appropriate to registered profession / role.
Experience
- Significant experience of working as a registered practitioner in a provider organisation (e.g. acute sector, community provider, third sector, social care or primary care) and within a relevant specialty
- Evidence of recent teaching, mentorship and supervision of staff
- Evidence of recent audit and/or research experience
- Experience of multi professional working
- Evidence of involvement in change management and/or clinical service improvement
Knowledge
- Demonstrate an up to date and detailed knowledge of relevant guidelines and clinical practice in the speciality
Skills/ Abilities
- Evidence of theoretical and practical skills allowing autonomous patient management (i.e. patient assessment, diagnosis and management) related to clinical scope of practice
- Understand, encourage and support clinical supervision and mentorship both within and across professional roles
- Effective leadership skills relevant to role (i.e. demonstrated ability to provide clinical professional leadership)
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Educational skills such as identification of learning needs, delivery and evaluation, providing work based learning
Communications Skills
- Able to demonstrate a good standard of English language
- Ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders including to service users, clinicians, and senior leadership teams. This will require proven ability and leadership skills demonstrating motivational, visionary, diplomacy and negotiation skills
Planning & Organising Skills
- Ability to interpret and evaluate national and international guidelines and apply to local protocols and practice as appropriate
- Able to use high-level problem-solving and analytical skills and manage complexity
- Effective time-management and prioritisation skills
Physical Skills
- Works under own initiative with strong organisational skills and ability to achieve to deadlines
- Appropriate level of I.T literacy (i.e., for radiology, pathology, microbiology ordering as per Trust protocols, utilising patient systems)
Other
- Willingness to use technology to improve standards of care and support to our patients
- Access to transport and the ability to travel within the required geographical area
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.
