Advanced Clinical Practitioner

NHS; Colchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

The East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join its dedicated team at the Urgent Treatment Centre in Colchester Hospital. This role emphasizes a balance of clinical practice, leadership, and ongoing professional development in a supportive environment. With opportunities to enhance skills in a collaborative setting, the successful candidate will deliver high-quality care while fulfilling a pivotal role in the patient treatment pathway.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

NHS discounts

Support for career development

Qualifications

• Completion of supervised practice in advanced clinical practice.
• Evidence of clinical work in an autonomous role.
• Evidence of mentoring and supervision of staff.

Responsibilities

• Work autonomously to assess, examine, and treat patients with undiagnosed conditions.
• Lead and support a team of practitioners in the Urgent Treatment Centre.
• Ensure maintenance of clinical excellence and high quality patient care.

Skills

Leadership skills

Presentation Skills

Computer skills

Education

Professional Registration with NMC or HCPC

MSc in Advanced Practice or equivalent

1st degree in a clinical field

Job description

Go back East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The closing date is 23 June 2025

We are looking for a qualified, experienced, enthusiastic and highly motivated ACP to complement our established team of Advanced Clinical Practitioners in the Urgent Treatment Centre, co-located in the Emergency department at Colchester Hospital. This exciting opportunity facilitates working within the four pillars of advanced practice: - education, clinical practice, leadership and research.

The Urgent Treatment Centre is open 0700-Midnight, 7 days a week, including weekends and Bank Holidays and the successful candidate will be required to work shifts covering these hours.

The post involves working as part of and leading an enthusiastic dedicated team, across all areas of the Urgent Treatment Centre, to ensure patients presenting with undifferentiated and un-diagnosed illnesses and injuries are at the forefront of service provision and receive prompt timely intervention.

The successful candidate will also be assigned a team of experienced and developing Practitioners to lead and to support their development.

Clinical and leadership support and supervision will be provided by the Clinical lead Nurse and GP.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge further, then we are keen to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

You will ideally be clinically experienced within the field of urgent unscheduled care. The post will require you to work as an autonomous practitioner to appropriately assess, examine, investigate and treat patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions at an advanced level.

You will collaborate with senior clinical leads, medical personnel and the wider MDT as appropriate to the patient's condition. The ACP is accountable for the total episode of care.

You will be part of the senior clinical team and will be required to cover the co-ordinator role and also navigation and Care at the Door directly at the Front Door.

You will contribute to service development. They will also provide appropriate leadership to their designated team. Ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence and support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement.

You will promote and facilitate evidence-based practice, clinical audit and research within the department.

The successful candidate will be motivated and engaged to provide a high standard of safe and quality care whilst providing a senior presence in the department. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted will be required to be interviewed and complete a presentation; details will be provided.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• oProfessional Registration with either NMC, or HCPC
• oNon-Medical Prescribing (v300) if appropriate to registered profession /role
• oPossession MSc in Advanced Practice or recognised equivalent by HEE Centre Advancing Practice
• oLeadership/management course
• oPossession of 1st degree in a clinical field e.g., Nursing, physiotherapy at a minimum 2:2 classification
• oEvidence of continuing education

Knowledge

• oDemonstrates a high degree of knowledge within specialty
• oDemonstrate an understanding of current developments in the relevant speciality
• oKnowledge of clinical governance and risk assessment/management
• oKnowledge of current NHS, professional and educational issues

Experience

• oCompleted or portfolio of supervised practice in advanced clinical practice, or equivalent.
• oEvidence of continued professional development
• oEvidence of clinical work in an autonomous role
• oEvidence of recent teaching, mentorship, and supervision of staff
• oEvidence of multi - professional working
• oEvidence of quality improvement methodology and audit experience
• oEvidence of involvement in change management

Skills

• oStrong leadership skills
• oPresentation Skills
• oComputer skills (i.e., for radiology, pathology, microbiology ordering as per Trust protocols, utilising patient systems)
• oAbility to develop protocols and guidelines
• oAbility to write reports for senior management
• oCar driver with valid UK and have access to a car for work purposes

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.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust