Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Ludlow

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our friendly and forward-thinking GP practice team. This is an exciting opportunity for a clinician who is passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centred care within primary care. The successful candidate will work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team, providing advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients presenting with a wide range of conditions.

Main duties of the job

• Provide expert clinical care, including history taking, physical examination, diagnosis, and management.
• Independently assess, diagnose, and manage acute and chronic conditions.
• Prescribe medications safely and effectively as an independent prescriber.
• Manage undifferentiated and complex patient presentations.
• Deliver health promotion and disease prevention advice.
• Work collaboratively with GPs, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals.
• Contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient records.

About us

We are a progressive and patient-focused GP practice committed to delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to our diverse population. Our multidisciplinary team includes GPs, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, and allied health professionals, all working collaboratively to provide safe, effective, and compassionate services. A strong emphasis is placed on clinical supervision and education within our practice. We foster a supportive learning environment where continuous professional development is actively encouraged. Regular clinical supervision sessions are embedded into our working culture, providing opportunities for reflection, case discussion, and shared learning to ensure the highest standards of care. We are actively involved in training and education, supporting students and clinicians at various stages of their careers. Whether through mentorship, formal teaching, or peer support, we are committed to developing confident, competent practitioners. Our team benefits from protected learning time, access to training resources, and opportunities to contribute to service improvement and innovation. We pride ourselves on maintaining a culture that values teamwork, open communication, and professional growth, ensuring both staff wellbeing and excellent patient outcomes remain at the heart of everything we do.

Job responsibilities

• Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment or make necessary referrals to other members of the PCN or practice team.
• Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to other community or voluntary services and to self-care.
• Be able to perform specialist health checks and reviews, perform and interpret ECGs; alongside other results as appropriate, perform investigatory procedures as required, undertake the collection of pathological specimens including intravenous blood samples, swabs, etc., perform investigatory procedures needed by patients and those requested by GPs and the wider PCN, perform a domiciliary (home) visit.
• Support the delivery of anticipatory care and end of life care plans and lead certain community services (e.g. monitoring blood pressure and diabetes risk of elderly patients living in sheltered housing).
• Provide an alternative model to urgent and same day home visits for the PCN and undertake clinical audits.
• Communicate at all levels across PCNs and other organisations, ensuring effective, patient-centered service.
• Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the multi-disciplinary team, attending and contributing to meetings as required and accepting referrals and referring to specialist services where appropriate.
• Prescribe, issue and review medications as appropriate following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways. This will be done in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice N.B relevant if possesses prescribing qualification only.
• Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment and or interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis, and patients with complex needs within the clinical and domiciliary setting.
• Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Take an active part in achievement of contractual markers.
• Implement and participate in vaccination programmes as appropriate.

Person Specification

• Advanced Clinical Practitioner able to operate at an advanced level of clinical practice Framework for Higher Education Qualification (FHEQ) Level 7 or Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCOF) Level 11.
• Disclosure and Barring Service Check. 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.