Advanced Clinical Practitioner Acute & Community role
Band 8a - 37.5 hours per week
NMC & AHP professional registrants can apply.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Division of Intermediate Tier Services, rated OUTSTANDING by the CQC, we are seeking an advanced clinical Practitioners to join the Extensive Care service, predominately to work within our Acute Urgent crisis response service this is a blend of Community and Acute hospital work.
Extensive Care is an Umbrella term as the service has a number of sub services within it.
These are, an intermediate bed base within the Stamford Unit, this is a 96 bedded Unit over 3 floors. This is a blended approach to care with Therapy GP and an ACP workforce. We are also very proud to have are Urgent Crisis response team that work across our Neighbourhoods and support our Award-winning Digital Health Service, Virtual wards, along with having very strong ties to our intermediate urgent care team, this is a truly integrated team consisting of Nursing, Therapy and Adult social care. The Extensivist service is well established over 5 years, and sees patient in the community who have multiple hospital attendances, along with long term conditions and complex health needs. We are really excited to be developing our acute frailty service and Community frailty service
Urgent Crisis response is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner led service based in the community. The team provide urgent health care to patients in their homes who are experiencing an acute illness, to avoid an unnecessary admission to hospital.
Working within the Urgent Crisis Response team you will be part of developing and shaping the future of the two - hour response service within Tameside and Glossop.
The post holder will be an autonomous Advanced clinical practitioner who will be expected to take an active role in the response, stabilisation and making safe element of acute care pathways by delivery of advanced assessment, management, and treatment of patients over 18 years of age within the urgent crisis response service.
The successful postholder will have community experience and demonstrate specialist clinical skills and knowledge in advanced clinical assessment. The Advanced clinical practitioner will offer clinical expertise, guidance, and management plans, clinical decision making, and discharge planning to acutely unwell patients. Develop differential diagnosis and work in collaboration with primary care, community services and acute trust and the wider multidisciplinary team to agree what services need to be put in place; what clinical and medical support will be needed to manage and mitigate risk to ensure a safe and supportive care in their usual place of residence.
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children.Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+& Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focuses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
This advert closes on Thursday 21 Aug 2025
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