Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Transformationunitgm; Burton-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, providing leadership and clinical care within the emergency department at Queen's Hospital. The role offers an opportunity to lead a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality care and supporting workforce transformation in an inclusive environment.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Car schemes

Qualifications

• Significant experience in emergency medicine or acute care.
• Teaching or supervising others in a clinical setting.
• Ability to implement quality improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support the ACP team in the Emergency Department.
• Ensure delivery of safe and effective patient care.
• Develop and integrate the ACP workforce across the trust.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Workforce Transformation

Patient Care

Education

MSc in Advanced Practice

Professional registration with GPhC, HCPC or NMC

Job description

Employer University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Queens Hospital Burton Town Burton upon Trent Salary £62,215 - £72,293 pro rata pa Salary period Yearly Closing 17/06/2025 23:59 Interview date 01/07/2025

Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Band 8b

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

With over 13,000 members of staff you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day! Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity.

As a Trust we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.

The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it’s important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.

Armed Forces and Disability Confident guaranteed interview scheme

To further support the pledges in the Armed Forces Covenant and to make a positive contribution to support ex-armed forces personnel (veterans) make the transition to civilian life, the Trust has introduced a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for veterans who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification, to help them overcome barriers to find civilian employment. The scheme will operate for all external recruitment.

The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer and committed to both employing and retaining people with disabilities. This commitment is to guarantee an interview for any candidate that has disclosed a disability under the Equality Act 2010 and who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.

If you require support/adjustments with your application please contact the recruitment team on 01332 788466

Join us and help make a real difference to our Trust.

Here’s more about the role and what we’re looking for;

Job overview

To provide divisional representation and leadership for Advanced Clinical Practitioners working within UHDB within the Emergency Department at Queen's Hospital Burton. The post holder will be accountable to the Associate Director for Advanced Practice, supporting them within the division in development and leadership of Advanced Clinical Practice.

This is offering an opportunity in both Acute Medicine and Emergency Medicine.

Main duties of the job

Establish credible working relationships at divisional level and work alongside the Trust divisional leadership teams to guide and support workforce transformation, contributing to the development and integration of the ACP workforce.

Provide clinical leadership and support across the multidisciplinary team, to ensure the delivery of safe and effective care to all patients within UHDB.

To provide supervision, guidance and motivation to the ACP team for whom they have divisional responsibility and facilitate service development within the division.

To support the Associate Director of Advanced Practice in strategic development of the ACP service across UHDB.

To provide consistent high-quality care for patients accessing UHDB services

Closing date of applications: 17 June 2025

Interview date: 1 July 2025

Working for our organisation

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and Person Specification. To apply please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB – this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account.

• Professional registration with the GPhC, HCPC or NMC
• MSc in Advanced Practice or equivalent experience
• Teaching, supervision or coaching certificate

Knowledge and Skills

• Leads the planning and delivery of teaching and education of others
• Committed to own continuous professional development

Experience

• Significant experience at an advanced level of practice within emergency medicine, acute medicine or acute frailty
• Plans and implements quality improvement initiatives
• Leading and managing a team

Other requirements

• Ability to work variety of unsocial hours to meet the service needs

Our Trust aims to provide the highest quality care to patients within Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire and we want the very best people to work with us.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

If we receive a high number of applications for this position we reserve the right to withdraw the post before the closing date, therefore it is advisable that you apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

At UHDB , we offer different ways to work flexibly to each and every one of our colleagues, many of whom already work flexibly at all sites of the Trust.

For our roles we are open to discussing the possibility of part-time/ reduced hours/ compressed hours/ flexible start and finish times/ fixed/flexible shifts/annualised hours/ term time hours/ hybrid working – working partly in the trust/partly at home.

Why don’t you talk to us at interview about the flexibility you would like to explore and what it means to you, and we will discuss what’s possible for the job and team, and the opportunities we might be able to create together.

We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to work with you to look at all the available options.

Most of our posts are subject to a DBS check, however having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from obtaining a position. Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

All correspondence relating to your application will be sent to you via our trac.system account. Please ensure that you regularly check your emails; this includes junk/spam, as your security settings may not recognise the sender.

Anyone from outside of the UK (excluding from the Republic of Ireland) will need permission from UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) to work in the UK and may also need entry clearance before travelling here.

UKVI is responsible for managing migration. To obtain a visa or entry clearance, you will need to meet certain requirements and demonstrate you have the right the work in the UK via:

• the points-based immigration system
• the EU settlement scheme
• eVisa

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

If we receive a high number of applications for this position we reserve the right to withdraw the post before the closing date, therefore it is advisable that you apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment. Please ensure that you had read the Job Description and Person Spec and that you meet the criteria before applying.

Name Andy Cole Job title Associate Director of Advanced Clinical Practice Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01332 788466