Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre in Winchester

We are excited to announce that the opening of our state-of-the-art Orthopaedic Centre in Winchester began in September 2025 with great success. This new facility is a testament to our Trust's ongoing commitment to enhancing healthcare services in the region and working collaboratively with orthopaedic services across Hampshire and Isle of Wight to serve patients across our communities.

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner role is designed to complement and enhance traditional medical roles, working collaboratively within the MDT which includes:

• Delivering an advanced level of practice within a field of elective orthopaedic surgery practice both independently and in partnership with the multidisciplinary team under the clinical supervision delegated by a consultant and/or Specialist Registrar.
• Using collaborative and independent judgement to assess, investigate, diagnose, plan, implement, manage, and evaluate the clinical care and management of elective orthopaedic patients.
• Taking initiative and responsibility for providing clinical leadership, supervision, and structured teaching for the MDT to facilitate ongoing training and education.
• Taking a lead on audit and research within the unit contributing to developing and evaluating policies and protocols incorporating current best evidence.
• Promoting good clinical governance and implementation of the organisational strategy and work within agreed trust/unit protocols and guidelines.

Main duties of the job include establishing and delivering a high-quality service using state-of-the-art models of care for patients undergoing elective joint replacement surgery by facilitating an ambulatory lower limb arthroplasty pathway. In addition to clinical supervision of the trainees, you will work with key stakeholders to develop clinical pathways, audit and governance structures, that will establish a culture of innovation, productivity and constant improvement amongst the wider multidisciplinary team.

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) will perform at an advanced level under the core capabilities across the four pillars of Advanced Practice (Health Education England Multi-Professional Framework 2017):

• Clinical Practice
• Leadership and Management
• Research
• Education

To deliver an advanced level of practice within a specialist field, acting as a role model. The ACP will practice both independently and in partnership with the multidisciplinary team under the clinical supervision delegated by a consultant and/or Specialist Registrar and/or under the guidance of the Lead ACP.

The post holder will use collaborative and independent judgement to assess, investigate, diagnose, plan, implement, manage, and evaluate the clinical care and management of the patients. They will be responsible for providing clinical leadership, supervision, and structured teaching for trainee ACPs and the wider multidisciplinary team to facilitate ongoing training and education.

Essential qualifications include being a registered healthcare professional on the relevant part of the NMC/HCPC Register, an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice, proven clinical leadership skills, and independent prescribing (V300). Recent experience in the relevant speciality (for example, Orthopaedics) and evidence of managerial responsibilities are also essential.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.