Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Fcms; Lancaster; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Cycle to Work Scheme

Career Development Opportunities

Attendance Bonus

Staff Benefit Scheme

Free Tea & Coffee

Eye Care Contributions

Job summary

FCMS in Morecambe is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work at the Morecambe Urgent Treatment Centre. The role involves autonomous clinical practice, triage, and supervision of the clinical team within urgent care settings.

Salary is £28.48–£31.73 per hour, with up to 130 hours per month. Evening/weekend work is required. Based at Morecambe UTC, full-time with flexible patterns; NHS Pension and other staff benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification as MSc ACP or Non-medical prescriber required.
• Ability to work autonomously in primary/urgent care settings with supervision.
• Experience in telephone triage and remote prescribing.
• Demonstrated teaching/mentorship and CPD portfolio development.
• Strong clinical leadership, communication and change management skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess, treat and advise patients, and refer when needed within scope.
• Supervise clinical team and support development of staff.
• Refer patients to other team members as appropriate and guide others.
• Ensure safe, effective practice within competence boundaries.

Skills

Independent practice

Telephone triage

Remote prescribing

Teaching & mentorship

CPD portfolio

Clinical leadership

Audit & feedback

Change management

Effective communication

Resource management

Multi‑agency collaboration

Risk assessment

IT literacy (Word, PowerPoint)

Education

MSc ACP / Non-medical prescriber

Tools

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Company: FCMS
Job ID: U0051-26-0058
Closing date: 30 October 2026
Job summary
Welcome to FCMS! Come and join our lively and vibrant team! Nestled in the lovely seaside town of Morecambe, we are an Urgent Care Centre with a highly skilled team, who deal with all ages, ranging from babies to the elderly. We are a high-performance team with complimentary 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!
Post: Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Pay: £28.48 - £31.73 per hour depending on experience
Hours: Up to 130 hours per month
Base: The post will be based at Morecambe Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC). The centre delivers urgent care services between 8am 8pm 7 days a week, 365 days per year across the UTC and GP Out of Hours. Evening and weekend work will be required as part of this post.
Please note that our roles are not being considered for sponsorship at this time
Main duties of the job

• 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 all 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
• To safely and competently undertake invasive and non-invasive procedures to establish a diagnosis
• Be able to independently undertake telephone triage
• To work within the parameters of current Non-medical prescribing legislation / guidelines.
• Monitor and lead improvements to standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, and evidence-based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and the provision of skilled professional leadership

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
• Career Development Opportunities
• Attendance Bonus
• Staff Benefit Scheme
• Free Tea & Coffee
• Eye Care Contributions

Details
Date posted: 15 October 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £28.48 to £31.73 an hour depending on experience
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: U0051-26-0058
Job location: Morecambe Urgent Treatment Centre, Hanover Street, Morecambe, Lancashire, LA4 5LY, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Knowledge, skills and experience required:

• Relevant professional qualification (MSc ACP / Non-medical prescriber).
• 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
• Up to date CPD Portfolio
• Demonstrate the ability to work in 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

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