Advanced Clinical Practitioner

HCRG Care Group; Mildenhall; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension and AF C terms

My Reward Hub discounts

Access to wages as you earn them

Wellbeing support and career coaching

eLearning and professional development

Innovation funding and learning team

Good CQC ratings and safe culture

Free tea, coffee and milk at base

Job summary

Savernake Hospital, part of HCRG Care Group, is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to deliver autonomous ACP services within our Community Hospital Inpatient setting in Wiltshire. The role emphasizes patient-centred decision-making, leadership of nursing teams, and collaboration with multi-disciplinary colleagues to optimise discharge planning and pathway improvements.

Applicants should hold an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent, be NMC registered, and have significant

Qualifications

• NMC registered and actively practicing.
• MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent.
• Post graduate Community/Acute Nursing qualification.
• Registered Independent Non Medical Prescriber.

Responsibilities

• Provide autonomous ACP service within Community Hospital inpatient settings.
• Lead professional practice and supervise nursing/ multidisciplinary teams.
• Coordinate care with minimal delay and ensure patient-centred decisions.
• Drive audits, governance, and quality improvements.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Transformational leadership

Prioritisation under pressure

Interpersonal skills

Analytical and reflective skills

Influencing and negotiation

Reporting/ presenting complex cases

IT literacy and email usage

Education

MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice

Postgraduate Community Nursing/Acute Nursing qualification

Registered Independent Non Medical Prescriber

Leadership qualification/training

NMC registration and revalidation

Tools

IT skills

Job description

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will report to the Consultant Practitioner.

• Deliver an autonomous Advanced Clinical Practitioner service in Community Hospital inpatient settings aligned with national and organisational standards.
• Conduct high-level assessments to diagnose, initiate treatments, arrange investigations, and coordinate care with minimal delay.
• Ensure patient-centred decision-making, respecting patient preferences for current and future care.
• Agree roles, actions and expected outcomes with patients, carers and professionals, referring appropriately.
• Demonstrate positive leadership, specialist clinical knowledge and adherence to NMC professional standards.
• Proactively manage clinical, performance, and staffing issues.
• Avoid unnecessary patient transfers to secondary acute care where appropriate.
• Provide professional leadership to nurses and multidisciplinary team members, including social care staff.
• Work with the patient's Community Team Key Worker to support safe discharge.
• Monitor care delivery to ensure it remains patient-centred.
• Ensure effective resource use, support budget management, and attend review meetings with the Team Leader.
• Re-prioritise throughout the day and respond promptly to staff issues, complaints, safeguarding concerns and incidents, ensuring investigation and shared learning.
• Use patient feedback, incident learning and complaints to improve pathways and patient experience.
• Support and implement changes aligned with national and organisational guidance (e.g., NICE, NSF).
• Maintain responsibility for Information Governance, health, safety and security compliance.
• Oversee clinical audits, ensuring recommendations are implemented into everyday practice.
• Build effective relationships with internal teams such as specialist nurses, community nursing, therapies and primary care.
• Promote a learning environment that supports skill-sharing and development across all disciplines.
• Ensure staff complete mandatory training and take part in annual appraisals.
• Ensure participation in clinical supervision, peer review, mid-year and annual appraisals to support competency and revalidation.
• Implement work-based learning to develop a skilled, forward-thinking and motivated nursing service.
• Identify and advise on audit, research and innovation topics; ensure findings are shared and acted upon.
• Monitor clinical and managerial performance against targets, contributing to risk assessments and required reports.
• Organise and oversee professional, business, clinical and quality meetings aligned with national and local priorities.
• Provide patients, families and carers with tailored information and health advice, including early warning signs and beneficial lifestyle changes.
• Provide cover for peer ACPs as needed.
• Registered Nurse, current registration with the NMC
• MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or Advanced Nurse Practitioner
• Currently working at Band 7 or 8a level.
• Relevant post graduate Community Nursing/Acute Nursing speciality qualification/ training
• Registered Independent Non Medical Prescriber
• Leadership qualification/ training, Minimum of 5 years post registration experience, including at least 2 years working in a supervisory / managerial capacity at minimum band 6 level within a community/acute nursing setting
• Evidence of enhanced clinical practice at Masters level in relevant speciality
• Experience of effective budget and resource management
• Initiating research and / or audit and implementing changes / improvements in practice
• Experience of initiating, managing and evaluating change
• Experience of giving presentations to a wide audience

Knowledge

• In depth knowledge and understanding of current health and social care policy, legislation, ethical practice, Clinical Governance and CQC requirements
• High levels of understanding of nursing body requirements including The NMC Code, revalidation, nursing standards, peer review and clinical supervision
• Good knowledge of national guidelines e.g. NICE and NSF's
• Knowledge of research and current evidence-based practice
• High levels of knowledge, understanding and experience of multi-disciplinary working and inter-professional practice

Skills

• Demonstrable experience of working across organisational boundaries and teams
• Demonstrates ability to think at a strategic level
• Experience of transformational leadership
• Able to plan, organise and re-prioritise own work under pressure
• Demonstrates initiative and good interpersonal skills
• Excellent analytical and reflection skills
• Able to influence, negotiate and motivate others
• Able to write and present complex case reports business cases
• Advanced keyboard, IT skills including the use of emails

Additional requirements

• Enthusiastic, assertive and self motivated
• Flexible and able to respond to changing priorities
• Reliable, respectful and approachable
• Car driver and able to travel across DGSS

Desirable

• Management qualification
• Post Registration Teaching Qualification
• Experience of presentations outside of own organisation
• Experience of teaching on higher educational award courses

We're delighted to offer a wonderful opportunity for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team at Savernake Hospital, set within the tranquil woodlands of Wiltshire. We're seeking an ACP who is passionate about delivering exceptional care and making a genuine difference to patients within our Community Hospitals Inpatient setting.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

You will feel valued as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £57,528 - £64,750 (Band 8a AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location