Band 8A Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) is an autonomous practitioner providing high-quality care within the Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) and Emergency Department (ED). The post holder will assess, diagnose, treat and manage patients presenting with a range of urgent and emergency healthcare needs, including complex and undifferentiated conditions.

Working as part of the multidisciplinary team, the ACP will utilise advanced clinical knowledge and decision-making skills to undertake patient assessment, request and interpret investigations, prescribe where qualified, and develop effective management plans. The ACP will provide clinical leadership, support service development, and contribute to quality improvement, education, audit and research activities. Working in line with the Multi-professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice, the post holder will demonstrate expertise across the four pillars of advanced practice: clinical practice, leadership, education and research.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide autonomous assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients presenting with urgent and emergency healthcare needs, including complex and undifferentiated conditions.
• Request and interpret diagnostic investigations, including laboratory and radiological tests, and prescribe medications where appropriately qualified.
• Provide clinical leadership and specialist advice to multidisciplinary teams, promoting safe, evidence-based practice and high standards of patient care.
• Lead and support service developments, clinical pathway improvements and quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient outcomes and service effectiveness.
• Support the education and development of nursing, medical and allied health professional colleagues through teaching, supervision and mentorship.
• Participate in audit, research, service evaluation, incident investigations and other clinical governance activities to support continuous improvement.
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical records, ensuring compliance with professional, regulatory and Trust standards.
• Work collaboratively with internal and external partners to deliver integrated, patient-centred care, facilitate discharge planning and promote continuity of care across healthcare settings.
• Maintain professional competence through continuing professional development, appraisal and revalidation, demonstrating leadership across the four pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice: clinical practice, leadership, education and research.

Person specification:

• Able to prioritise
• Able to use own initiative
• Understand team working
• Able to adapt to changing situations
• Ability to think logically, to make decisions, cope with stress, and work with all levels of staff.

Education & Qualifications:

• 1st level registered nurse/midwife/AHP
• Successful completion of a PGDip in Advanced Practice at Masters/Level 7 programme
• APLS provider (for those ACP’s seeing children). EPLS for all other ACPs
• ALS provider
• Independent and supplementary prescribing qualification
• Teaching qualification
• Full MSc in Advanced Practice
• Life support instructor*, such as ALS, APLS, ETC, ATNCS

Skills and abilities:

• Strong clinical leadership skills and an effective role model
• High level of clinical acumen
• A portfolio of evidence demonstrating advanced across all four pillars (Leadership, Clinical, Education and Research).
• Evidence of commitment to developing the ACP service
• Evidence of service improvement and change