Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Emergency Department in Grimsby

Join our established Emergency Medicine ACP team, delivering safe, high-quality, patient-centred care within a supportive multidisciplinary department.

What we are looking for

• A completed full MSc in Advanced Practice;
• A relevant professional registration;
• Significant clinical experience relevant to Emergency Medicine;
• A clinical portfolio evidencing the RCEM capabilities required for advanced practice in Emergency Medicine;
• Advanced assessment, clinical reasoning and autonomous decision-making skills within their scope of practice;
• Evidence of continuing professional development and maintained competence.

This is not a trainee post. The completed MSc and portfolio evidence of the required capabilities are essential for appointment.

Main duties of the job

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) in Emergency Care is a dynamic clinician who is responsible for delivering safe, evidence-based patient care across all the Emergency Care areas - covering both adult and paediatric patient groups. The ACP manages patients presenting with a variety of acute, complex, often undifferentiated conditions across all age groups. They balance clinical complexity while delivering timely, patient-centred care. The ACP applies comprehensive assessment, requests and interprets investigations, formulates differential diagnoses, initiates and evaluates treatment plans, prescribes independently, and coordinates referral, admission or discharge pathways. The ACP is expected to work within their sphere of competence, using advanced clinical reasoning, evidence-based practice and effective risk management to deliver safe, high-quality care across a broad range of ages, conditions and complexity. The ACP contributes to the delivery and development of high-quality services through leadership, education, quality improvement, research and clinical governance activities in line with local and national priorities.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over 1.3 billion. Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve. Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide. Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees. We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we will do our best to make it happen.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Professional Registration with either NMC or HCPC or GPhC.
• Possession of 1st degree in a clinical field e.g Nursing/paramedic/physiotherapy/pharmacist at a minimum 2:2 classification.
• Masters in Advanced Practice (MSc or MMedSci) or Masters level award relevant to specialty.
• Non-Medical Prescribing (V300).
• Advanced Resuscitation (ALS/EPALS/ATLS).

Knowledge training and experience

• Evidence of post registration continuing education/professional development.
• Significant experience of working as a registered practitioner in an Acute Care and within ED as an ACP.
• Demonstrable evidence of research and audit experience.
• Demonstrable evidence of service/quality improvement.
• Demonstrable evidence of risk assessment/management.

Communication and interpersonal skills

• Evidence of recent teaching, mentorship and supervision of staff.
• Demonstrable evidence of the development of protocols and guidelines.

Special attributes and other

• Demonstrable evidence of the national and local Advanced Practice agenda.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.