Employer Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site North Manchester Hospital
Town Manchester
Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly
Closing 23/09/2025 23:59
Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Band 8a
Overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our General Surgery ACP team. MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice is essential. The vacant role is to work within our Surgical Ambulatory care unit (SACU). Our unit is staffed by ACPs, and Junior Doctors, with support from our Surgical Consultants. We accept referrals to the unit from ED, GPs. The unit is open 8am-4pm, 7 days a week. This is an opportunity for a nurse or allied health professional to join our General Surgery Team at North Manchester General Hospital as an Advanced Clinical practitioner (ACP). We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, experienced, highly motivated and dynamic ACP with a passion for Surgery to join our team of ACPs, Doctors and Consultants. For further information or to arrange an informal chat or visit please contact Ruth Despard, Interim lead Nurse OMFS and General Surgery—ruth.despard@mft.nhs.uk or Lisa Kirk, Assistant directorate manager General Surgery—lisa.kirk@mft.nhs.uk
Main duties of the job
Clinical Practice
* Ability to undertake thorough patient history
* Have a wide knowledge base of common medical presentations
* Competence in clinical examinations
* Have a thorough understanding of relevant diagnostics
* Knowledge of investigation interpretation, such as blood, x rays and ECGs
* Complete the Non medical Prescribing (NMP) module and complete a formulary, as agreed by the NMP trust lead and Pharmacy
* Keep up to date with best clinical practice, and prescribe treatments in line with that and trust guidance
* Prepare accurate and concise reports both verbally and written
Leadership and Management
* Assist with the management of Trainee ACPs within General Surgery
* Support junior clinicians to plan and manage episodes of patient care
* Act as a role model for Junior clinicians
* Practice as an autonomous professional in a self-directed manner, with confidence, authority and expertise
Education and Development
* Educated to Masters level with MSc in Advanced Practice
* Complete NMP as above
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of over £3bn. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. We bring together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, championing collaborative working & transformation, and encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate, offering a scale of opportunity that is extraordinary. We maintain a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness, and drive research and innovation through Hive, our Electronic Patient Record system launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We’re embarking on our Green Plan to make healthcare more sustainable. At MFT, we foster inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protect health and wellbeing, and shape the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, see the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the “Supporting Documents” heading. Read the Candidate Essentials Guide with the Job Description and Person Specification for details about the Trust, benefits, and how we care for you as you care for others. This document provides critical information before you submit an application.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply. If you have any special requirements to help your application, email resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to Masters Level in Advanced Practice
* Teaching Qualification
* Non-medical Prescriber
* Speciality Qualification
Experience
* Portfolio of evidence showing achievements in practice/speciality
* Significant evidence of delivering teaching programmes to staff groups
* Evidence of presentations at local, regional, national level
* Comprehensive or relevant post qualifying experience
* Experience in General Surgery
Knowledge
* External to the organisation in order to support development of individuals and practice
* Ensure mentorship training is updated annually
* Ensure clinical environment is conducive to supporting the education and learning of all staff and students
* Provide educational and training opportunities to pre-registration nursing students to ensure placements satisfy the relevant elements of their learning agreement
* Provide an environment that encourages client-centred involvement and develops and delivers specific and relevant specialist teaching programmes for all disciplines and grades of staff, clients and carers within the Trust
* Review and evaluate all teaching programmes and lead on the development of new programmes when a need is identified
* Identify own development needs in line with service requirements
* Develop and distribute educational leaflets for staff and patients
* Ensure personal, peer support and clinical supervision needs are met
* Act as mentor/preceptor and resource person for all nursing and support staff
* Provide clinical supervision and ensure clients are facilitated to ask for help, advice and education
* Contribute to clinical governance outcomes
* On completion of appropriate training carry out non-medical prescribing with governance and annual audit of prescribing practices
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barred Service.
Name Ruth Despard
Job title Interim Lead Nurse OMFS and General Surgery
Email ruth.despard@mft.nhs.uk
Telephone 07970646276
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