Group Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) Lead
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Group Advanced Clinical Practice Lead
Band 8b
Main area
Advanced Clinical Practice
Grade
Band 8b
Contract
12 months (Fixed Term)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
287-CEF-201-25
Department name
LUH - 1 General Staffing (AFC posts)
Site
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£64,455 - £74,896 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/09/2025 23:59
Job Overview
Are you a dynamic and visionary advanced clinical practitioner looking for a unique leadership opportunity to shape the future of advanced practice across a major NHS Group?
We are excited to invite applications for a Group Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) Lead to join our senior team on a fixed-term basis. This role will provide strategic and operational leadership for the development, implementation, and sustainability of a high-quality multi-professional advanced clinical practice workforce across our partner organisations. This post will initially serve Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust (LUHFT) and Liverpool Women's Hospital (LWH).
The ideal candidate will be a qualified ACP with a strong clinical background across professional groups, experienced in senior clinical leadership and workforce transformation. A deep understanding of ACP education, regulatory frameworks, and clinical governance is essential, alongside excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills. Flexibility to work across multiple sites and at a system level is required.
Main duties of the job
As the Group Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) Lead, you will provide expert leadership and strategic oversight for advanced clinical practice across the Group. You will support the Group Chief Nurse and key stakeholders in delivering an innovative and aligned ACP workforce strategy.
Leading the ACP Steering Group, you will represent the Group at local, regional, and national levels. You will drive workforce transformation by collaborating with senior leadership teams to develop the ACP workforce across medical, AHP, nursing, and midwifery professions.
Ensuring compliance with national policies and frameworks, including HEE's Multi-professional Framework and the NHS People Plan, you will oversee education, governance, competency assessment, and professional development for trainee and established ACPs. Your role will also focus on recruiting, developing, and retaining a skilled and compassionate ACP workforce to meet evolving healthcare needs.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Work as a senior clinical leader responsible for leading the development and implementation of advanced practice education and advanced practice roles across the Group, in line with NMC guidance
Work closely with the corporate management team, site Directors of Nursing and Midwifery divisional directors to ensure an ACP/ANP and AMP workforce that meets service needs.
Proactively influence local, regional, and national priorities related to advanced clinical practice.
* Establish credible working relationships at all levels and work alongside the senior leadership teams to guide and support divisional leadership teams in workforce transformation.
* Lead Advanced Clinical Practice Steering Group and represent the Group's advanced level practice at a local, regional, and national level
Work flexibly across all internal and external sites as required.
Ensure alignment with key advanced practice national policies, frameworks, and guidance from regulatory, professional, and advisory bodies.
Lead the initiation, development and effective implementation of guidance, clinical governance, competency assessment and continuing education for both trainee and
trained ACPs.
Lead the development and integration of the Group's ACP workforce that meets the organisation's vision and the objectives of the NHS People Plan (2020)
Ensure progressive improvement in the recruitment, education, and retention of the ACP workforce across the Group.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Professional registration with NMC or HCPC
* First clinical degree in relevant discipline
* MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
* Evidence of recent continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
* Leadership qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experienced ACP with expert knowledge on advanced practice
* Demonstrable experience working as a practicing ACP in an acute hospital setting
* Evidence of teaching, mentoring and supervision of staff
* Project/change management experience
* Experience of writing policies/protocols
* Evidence of developing new roles
* Record of successful change management
* Experience of report writing
Desirable criteria
* Demonstrable experience of staff management
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
* Understanding of clinical governance and risk management
* Knowledge of workforce planning, recruitment and retention
* Knowledge of key NHS policies and their impact on clinical practice
* Aware of current advance practice priorities
* Extensive insight into the advanced practice agenda at local, regional and national level
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Posts advertised to 'internal staff' are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months' of their 18^th birthday.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).
From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.
All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.
As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
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Applicant requirements
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 Barring Service.
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