Acute Advanced Clinical Practitioner | Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust; Bolton; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in Bolton is seeking a motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner. This full-time role involves assessing and treating adult patients, requiring non-medical prescribing skills and advanced clinical knowledge. Successful applicants will be part of a dynamic team within Acute Medicine to improve patient care. They will also engage in educational programs and research while managing their caseload under supervision. This challenging position offers a supportive environment to enhance patient-centered services.

Qualifications

• Experience working in an adult acute or urgent care division.
• Willingness and aptitude to learn and develop advanced clinical skills.
• Ability to manage a caseload under minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose, treat, and decide to admit or discharge adult patients.
• Manage own caseload in response to unpredictable work patterns.
• Provide advanced clinical skills and knowledge to medical and nursing staff.

Skills

Non-medical prescribing

Advanced clinical skills

Leadership

Research skills

Patient care improvement

Job description

We are looking for a motivated health care professional to join our expanding team of Advanced Clinical Practitioners in Acute Medicine at the Royal Bolton Hospital. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to work alongside a well-established and highly skilled team of eleven Advanced Clinical Practitioners and two trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners who provide a seven day service to the Acute Assessment unit and rotate across all areas of Acute Medicine. This is a busy and dynamic team who excel in delivering high quality patient‑centred care.

This is a full‑time post (37.5hrs/week) with a salary at 8a. Please note that non‑medical prescribing is a requirement for this post.

The successful applicant will ideally have experience of working within an adult acute or urgent care division, and possess knowledge and a range of skills that cover all aspects of Acute Medicine. They will need to show a willingness and aptitude to learn and develop. They will need to be self‑motivated with a desire to improve patient care through application of advanced clinical skills and knowledge, as well as leadership, education and research skills.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated provider of acute, intermediate and community health care serving the population of Bolton. This provides us with an opportunity for our services to work closely with our partners in primary care and the local authority to ensure a seamless service for our patients.

Here at Bolton our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure our patients receive the highest quality of Care and are guided by our trust Values. We are proud that our Trust is a centre of excellence for maternity, neonatal and care for children, and that it has been rated as Good by the Quality Care Commission (CQC). This is in recognition of the patient experience and quality of care that our staff provide to patients. It is also supported by our Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Framework for Professional Practice.

The Acute Adult Care Division is one of four Clinical Divisions in the Trust that includes Emergency Care, Complex Medicine and Specialist Medicine. The Division contains the busiest single site Emergency Department in Greater Manchester and has inpatient wards providing acute medicine, complex and specialist medicine services. It provides a range of specialist out‑patient and community services and is committed to providing excellent clinical performance and patient care.

Key Responsibilities

• The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will assess, diagnose, treat and make the decision to admit or discharge adult patients, safely ensuring appropriate advice, health education and referral to appropriate services or other members of the MDT under minimal supervision from the Acute Medicine consultant medical team.
• Be able to manage their own caseload in response to unpredictable patterns of work.
• Act as a clinical expert in patient care, able to make high level clinical decisions, informed by advanced diagnostic, assessment and treatment skills.
• Facilitates ‘expert’ inter‑professional care for the ill patient and their dependants by direction, supervision and example; and maintenance of all records.
• Able to provide advanced clinical skills and knowledge to medical and nursing staff within the acute medicine and urgent care division.
• Initiates, undertakes and evaluates research and audit.
• Develops and deliver educational programmes for staff locally and will work with Advanced Clinical Practitioners locally/nationally to develop advanced nursing practice.
• Ordering and interpreting radiological imaging is an integral part of the role.
• This is a designated non‑medical prescribing position.
• It is anticipated that 80% of the time will be spent in the clinical area with 20% non‑clinical time relating to the other three pillars of advanced practice.

This advert closes on Sunday 21 Dec 2025.