Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) - Paulton in Bishop Sutton

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team in our Hospital at Home service based in either Swindon or BaNES localities, providing acute hospital-level care to patients across the locality.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join the HCRG Care Group Inpatient Unit team. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a supportive multidisciplinary environment, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across our community inpatient services. Based at Paulton Memorial Hospital, you will provide advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management for patients requiring inpatient care. Working autonomously within your scope of practice, you will play a key role in supporting patient recovery and facilitating safe, effective care.

Main Responsibilities:

• Provide advanced clinical care to patients within our community inpatient rehabilitation services, primarily based at Paulton Memorial Hospital, with occasional cross-cover support at St Martins Hospital.
• Assess newly admitted patients, formulate diagnoses and management plans, request and interpret investigations, and deliver high-quality, patient-centred care that supports rehabilitation and recovery.
• Manage complex clinical presentations and respond to acute health concerns that arise during a patient's inpatient stay.
• Work closely with Consultant Geriatricians, specialist doctors, nursing teams, and therapists, contributing to ward rounds, multidisciplinary team meetings, and decision-making to ensure safe, effective, and coordinated care.
• Play a key role in discharge planning, referring patients to specialist services when appropriate and ensuring effective communication with GPs, relatives, and carers regarding significant changes in a patient's condition.
• Complete accurate discharge summaries, including medication information, treatment recommendations, and ongoing care plans to support a smooth transition back into the community.
• Uphold the highest standards of clinical practice while contributing to clinical audit, quality improvement initiatives, and service development projects.
• Maintain professional development through mandatory training, appraisal, and revalidation activities.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Registered with the NMC or HCPC.
• Accredited Advanced Clinical Practice qualification.
• Significant experience in frailty, elderly care, community services or acute care interfaces.
• Proven experience managing complex clinical caseloads and working autonomously at an advanced level.
• Demonstrable leadership and supervision experience within multidisciplinary teams.
• Clean driving licence, car driver, access to a vehicle for daily use.
• Advanced Clinical Practice Digital Badge.
• Experience working in Hospital at Home, Virtual Ward or Urgent Care services.

About the Company:

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.