Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a skilled and passionate Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join the Urgent and Emergency Care Clinical Division WTWA. This senior clinical role provides expert clinical leadership and supports high standards of care delivery across the Adult and Paediatric Emergency Department (ED) and Urgent Treatment Centers (UTC). As a Lead ACP, you will work autonomously at an advanced clinical level, managing patients across the full spectrum of undifferentiated emergency presentations. You will mentor and develop a growing team of ACPs, Trainee ACPs and Emergency Nurse Practitioners (ENPs), ensuring excellence in clinical practice, education, and service innovation. This is an excellent opportunity to influence strategic service development, enhance patient experience, and support safe, effective urgent care pathways.
Responsibilities
* Lead the clinical delivery of care within Urgent and Emergency Care across the Adult and Paediatric EDs and UTCs.
* Provide high‑level assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and discharge planning for a broad range of emergency presentations.
* Lead the supervision, development, and appraisal of ACPs, Trainee ACPs and ENPs to support workforce growth and clinical excellence.
* Collaborate with senior clinical, operational, and education leaders to drive quality improvement and service innovation.
* Contribute to governance activities, including audit, incident review, and clinical effectiveness initiatives.
* Champion an open, honest, compassionate, patient‑centred culture in line with Trust values.
About MFT
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of over £3bn and a scale that supports ambitious opportunities in healthcare. We bring together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, championing collaborative working and transformation. We encourage our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals and set standards that other Trusts strive to emulate. We benefit from a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness, and innovation through Hive, our Electronic Patient Record system launched in September 2022.
We are proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing infrastructure to enable high‑quality research programmes. We are also progressing our Green Plan to make healthcare more sustainable.
Diversity and inclusion
At MFT, we create a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, and protect your health and wellbeing as we shape the future of our organisation together. If you have special requirements to help you with your application, please email our resourcing team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you! This advert closes on Monday 22 Sep 2025.
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