Advanced Clinical Practitioner

NHS; Borough of Rossendale; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization seeks an Advanced Clinical Practitioner Prescriber in the Rossendale area. Offering a competitive hourly rate of £28.48-£31.73 and a Golden Hello bonus of £2.5k. The role requires independent practice in a dynamic team delivering high-quality patient care. Candidates should possess a First Contact Practitioner qualification and have significant experience in unscheduled care. This is an excellent opportunity to join a vibrant team committed to continuous improvement and innovation in healthcare.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Cycle to Work Scheme

Attendance Bonus

Free Tea & Coffee

Eye Care Contributions

Qualifications

• Registered Practitioner (NMC/HCPC) with a First Contact Practitioner qualification.
• Minimum 5 years post-registration experience in an unscheduled care setting.
• Competent in telephone triage and autonomous practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard care for patients presenting with minor injuries.
• Assure clinical governance and leadership in the multi-disciplinary team.
• Undertake independent clinical assessments and treatment.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Excellent communication

Telephone triage

Teaching and mentorship

Leadership skills

Education

First Contact Practitioner qualification

Clinical experience within an unscheduled care setting

Registered Practitioner (NMC / HCPC)

Tools

Adastra

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Post: Advanced Clinical Practitioner Prescriber

Pay: £28.48- £31.73 per hour depending on experience

PLUS, a Golden Hello of £2.5k paid in two instalments over 6 months

(pro rata this applies to EXTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY)

Hours: To be discussed with the candidate.

Accountable to: Head of Service

Reports to: Lancashire Clinical Managers

Closing date: 1st February 2026

Base: The post will be based at Rossendale Minor Injuries Unit (RMIU). The RMIU aims to deliver services between 8am–8pm 7 days a week, 365 days per year. Evening and weekend work will be required as part of this post.

About: Come and join our lively and vibrant team! We are a high-performance team with complementary talents and skills, who consistently show high levels of innovation, focusing on the best quality of care for our patients. We pride ourselves on an open and honest culture and show dedication towards peer support, maximizing individual strength and personality, valuing new ideas to help strengthen and celebrate what a great service we offer! Come and be a part of our amazing team!

Main duties of the job

It will be the responsibility of the post holder to exercise clinical expertise, levels of judgment, discretion and decision making in clinical care, as demonstrated under agreed parameters. Provide a high standard of care for patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed minor injury needs. There are development opportunities with training and mentorship in order to extend clinical competencies for the right candidate.

About us

The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health and wellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure that patients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled with excellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremely effective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the ability to strategically visualise, develop, and implement award-winning services.

Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we have a core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of our patients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the service delivery and user experience due to their considerable experience and commitment to what they do.

Come and be a part of our amazing team!

We offer NHS Pension

Cycle to Work Scheme

Attendance Bonus

Free Tea & Coffee

Eye Care Contributions

Job responsibilities

The post holder will:

• Work with and champion the unit in conjunction with Senior Managerial colleagues
• Support the Management team and Clinical manager to ensure all service KPIs/Targets are met, and looking for improvement over and above the set commissioned targets
• Ensure mandatory training is kept up to date and receive suitable training/CPD for their ongoing development needs
• Practice autonomously, as an independent practitioner, participating in the care of and undertaking assessment, diagnosis, treatment/referral and discharge of patients presenting with minor injury and illness within agreed parameters
• Provide advanced clinical skills and advice demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of a client group whilst working autonomously
• Identify the need for and initiate and interpret relevant diagnostic investigations and results
• Safely and competently undertake invasive and non-invasive procedures to establish a diagnosis
• Be able to independently undertake telephone triage; weekends the RMIU clinicians are required to partake in the CAS (Clinical Assessment Service) telephone triage. Training will be provided
• Work within the parameters of current nurse prescribing legislation
• Monitor and lead improvements to standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence-based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and provision of skilled professional leadership
• Contribute to the Clinical Governance agenda within the service by leading audit and research as part of the multi-disciplinary team within the area of expertise
• Act in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct or other relevant professional body
• Provide professional and clinical advice within the multi-disciplinary team

Knowledge, skills and experience required:

• Experience of working independently as an unsupervised practitioner in the primary or urgent care setting.
• Experienced in undertaking telephone triage and remote prescribing
• Teaching and mentorship
• Demonstrate the ability to work in a highly demanding environment.
• Maintained development of clinical leadership skills
• Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills
• Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources
• Able to articulate personal development needs
• Implementation of audit/research recommendations and demonstrates ability and knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback to clinicians
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Evidence of significant involvement in change
• Competent in use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
• Awareness of impact of evidence-based practice within unscheduled care
• Ability to work collaboratively with an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources, maintaining and evaluating links to manage risk across organisation and setting
• Ability to identify risk assessment and act accordingly

Key results areas:

Clinical

The post holder will:

• Assess, treat, and advise patients presenting with health care needs.
• Provide supervision of the clinical team, assisting and developing their team and individuals
• When required ensure patients are referred on to other members of the primary health care team or secondary care as necessary and support and guide others as required.
• Ensure all practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries and scope of competence of individuals and to acknowledge limitations.
• Work at an advanced level of practice reflected under the 4 pillars of advanced practice of the HEE
• Perform investigatory procedures, including assessing patients with minor injuries, request, and review x-rays, treat minor injuries/implement expanded roles in practice
• In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the duties and responsibilities associated with an expert practitioner working within Unscheduled Primary Care.
• Develop and maintain clinical/nursing policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Ensure any patient information is up-to-date and produced in appropriate formats

Professional

The post holder will:

• Role model standards of care and behaviour through clinical practice.
• Act as a role model for standards of behaviour and professionalism, through commitment to the integration of policies and procedures within the role and workplace
• Analyse relevant local and national policy, within their area of expertise and advise on the impact for service, leading the implementation of changes and evaluation of processes
• Maintain professional registration and practice through CPD
• Maintain a professional portfolio to demonstrate competency in line with NMC competency framework or other professional body
• Prescribe medication in accordance with competency, professional guidelines and NICE/CKS guidelines.
• Maintain NMP competency and regularly review prescribing practice through CPD and reflective practice.
• Maintain personal standards of conduct and behaviour consistent within FCMS, NMC guidelines or other professional body
• Allocate, coordinate, monitor and assess own workload within an accepted time frame
• Ensure appropriate use of resources to meet service needs
• Recognise and act as an advocate for patients, carers, service, and the organisation
• Carry out annual review of best practice/national standards and implement recommended changes
• Promote workforce integrity (empower professional accountability within the clinical team, ensure accreditation process followed, complaints management, competency assessment, ensuring mandatory training requirements fulfilled, robust clinical induction)
• Maintain a sound knowledge of NHS policy and NICE guidance in relation to scheduled and unscheduled care

Our key expectations are:

Self‑awareness Living authentically

Adaptability – Being ready to adjust depending on the situation

Openness What you see is what you get

Positivity with a real sense of being able to strive for the impossible

Generosity of spirit – Everyday should be an opportunity to act with kindness

Ability to have fun Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself

Our Why: To nurture an environment of inspiration, innovation and disruption so that people in our world receive exceptional healthcare for this generation, and the next.

Values: Our organisational culture is very important to us, so it is vital that the successful candidate lives and breathes complimentary values and behaviours. Our behaviours should be in line with our values which form part of our Company DNA:

Fun: People rarely succeed unless they are having fun. Happiness is healthy!

Awesome: We aren’t here to be average, we’re here to be awesome!

Humble: We’re here to make a difference to the lives of others, NOT to see how important we can become

Brave: We challenge the norm. We have the courage to get the difficult jobs done

Oompf: We have natural oompf! It’s infectious!

Go‑getting: We are intuitive to changing needs and respond quickly which we do with energy, ideas, and positivity.

We encourage and welcome you to visit the unit to allow us to show you the facilities and demonstrate the flow of the service.

If this is something you would like to do, prior to application or following your application submission, then please email [e-mail] for a convenient date and time to be arranged.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Practitioner (NMC / HCPC)
• First Contact Practitioner / Advanced Practice qualification or RCN Credentialled practitioner with experience dealing with both children and adults.
• Clinical experience within an unscheduled care setting
• Recognised training in minor injury / illness, consultation, and examination skills
• IRMER / red dot xray interpretation course
• Practice assessor certificate

Experience

• Minimum 5 years post registration experience and a passion for working in an integrated urgent care system and working with partner organisations
• Experience of expert autonomous practice within an unscheduled care setting managing minor injuries of all ages
• Experience using clinical computer systems including Adastra
• Understanding of current Urgent Health care issues and initiatives
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, intense conditions and within time constraints
• Understanding and awareness of CQC compliance and essential standards of quality and safety
• Teaching experience/clinical supervision experience
• Experience of working within a community Urgent Care setting or ED or an appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, and strategies for improving prescribing practice
• Evidence of clinical competence in a wide range of relevant clinical skills, local anaesthesia infiltration, suturing, x-ray interpretation, fracture management

Training and Personal

• Willing / able to attend appropriate training
• Experience of training and development of staff
• Commitment to own personal development
• Must have a positive can‑do attitude
• Commitment to personal and professional development
• Willing to work unsociable hours
• Able to deal with difficult and sensitive situations with tact and diplomacy
• Committed to service development
• Adaptable to the changing needs of the service.
• Teaching Qualification

Teamwork, Management and Communication

• Commitment to working with multiple organisations to manage patient flows
• Commitment to multi-disciplinary team approach to care
• Excellent oral, aural, and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with difficult situations
• The ability to demonstrate an understanding of the current issues affecting Primary Care services
• Time management of work productivity
• Ability to challenge the norm and get the best out of team members
• Commitment to support, develop and manage change
• Evidence of good organisational and leadership skills
• Information governance understanding and awareness
• Evidence of leadership experience
• Evidence of project management

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.