Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) - Swindon in Cheltenham

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will 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.

This exciting opportunity requires delivering acute, hospital-level care to patients. The service bridges the gap between acute and community care, providing hospital-level care at home. The role demands clinical autonomy across Urgent Crisis Response and admission avoidance pathways. Using advanced clinical expertise, you will assess, diagnose and manage patients with acute and complex needs, working towards reducing unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting effective discharge. You will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to develop personalised care plans.

Providing clinical leadership as a decision-maker and role model, you will follow Advanced Clinical Practice and NMC or HCPC standards. The position requires flexibility to travel across Wiltshire and contribute to a 7-day service. NMC or HCPC registration, non-medical prescriber qualification, and experience managing complex clinical caseloads are essential qualifications.

About us: HCRG Care Group, established in 2006, is one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. The organisation collaborates with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services focusing on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. Delivering adult and children community health services, primary care services, including urgent care, sexual health, and dermatology, the group transforms adult social care and wellbeing services.

We support communities across England, directly helping over half a million people annually, adhering to our core values: care, think, and do. Committed to equal opportunities, we welcome diverse applicants. Safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults is paramount, with procedures in place for safer recruitment, including disclosing criminal records and vetting checks.

Main Responsibilities: As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP), you will deliver a clinically autonomous service across Urgent Crisis Response, admission avoidance, frailty and Virtual Ward (Hospital at Home) pathways. Using advanced clinical expertise, you will assess, diagnose and manage patients with acute and complex needs, helping to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and support safe, timely discharge. You will apply advanced clinical reasoning to request and interpret investigations, initiate and review treatment plans, prescribe where appropriate, and monitor clinical and remote monitoring data to identify and respond to deterioration.

You will provide clinical leadership and act as a senior decision-maker and role model, practising in line with the four pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice and NMC or HCPC standards. The role requires flexibility to travel across Wiltshire and contribute to a 7-day service (07:00-22:00). While based in North Wiltshire, you may be required to work across other localities as the service evolves.

The Ideal Candidate: Essential qualifications include being registered with the NMC or HCPC, having an accredited Advanced Clinical Practice qualification, a non-medical prescriber 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, and demonstrable leadership and supervision experience within multidisciplinary teams. A clean driving licence and access to a vehicle for daily use are also required.

Desirable qualifications include a Master's degree, Advanced Clinical Practice Digital Badge, and experience working in Hospital at Home, Virtual Ward or Urgent Care services.

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

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. Everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.