Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Midlands Partnership University Nhs Foundation Trust; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to support Discharge to Assess (D2A) services at Haywood Community Hospital. You will lead advanced clinical assessment and care coordination for patients moving through D2A pathways, coordinating with medical teams and partners to promote safe, timely discharges.

This role requires autonomous practice, clinical decision-making and prescribing where appropriate, within the NMC/HCPC framework, and a commitment

Qualifications

• Experience of working within D2A Services.
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner.
• Approved MSc in Advanced clinical practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and care coordination for D2A pathway patients.
• Work with medical teams, therapists, nursing staff, social care and external partners to ensure seamless patient journeys.
• Perform and interpret diagnostic procedures and initiate appropriate investigations and treatments.

Skills

Autonomous practitioner

Education

MSc in Advanced clinical practice

Job description

Job summary

We are seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to support the delivery and development of Discharge to Assess (D2A) services across Haywood Community Hospital. The post holder will play a pivotal role in facilitating safe, timely discharges from acute and community settings, ensuring patients receive ongoing assessment and intervention in the most appropriate environment while promoting independence and reducing avoidable admissions.

Working as an autonomous practitioner within a multidisciplinary team, the ACP will provide advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and care coordination for patients transitioning through D2A pathways. The role will involve close collaboration with medical teams, therapists, nursing staff, social care colleagues, primary care, and external partner organisations to ensure seamless patient journeys and optimal outcomes.

Main duties of the job

• Exercise advanced clinical expertise, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care demonstrated through the HEE multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice in England.
• Work closely with medical, nursing and AHP staff in both primary and secondary care, to ensure patients receive appropriate investigation, intervention and treatment with minimal avoidable delays, whilst improving the quality of care.
• Work autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner encompassing the skills of advanced clinical assessment, initiating investigations, determine a differential diagnosis and initiating appropriate holistic, research-based treatment with the development of a personalised clinical management plan, including independent prescribing within their professional scope of practice.
• The post-holder will demonstrate safe, competent clinical decision making and expert care, demonstrating advanced clinical critical thinking to meet the needs of service users.

About us

Come and work with us at our award-winning NHS Trust, leading the way for trying new and better ways of working to help improve life for our local communities.

We have around 9,000 staff who provide physical and mental healthcare, support for people with learning disabilities, and adult social care across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Shropshire, and Telford & Wrekin. We also run regional and national services, including help for new parents (perinatal care), eating disorders, forensic services, sexual health, and support for people in prison with mental health, drug, or alcohol problems.

We offer great career development for both clinical and non-clinical roles, with ongoing training and support to help you learn and grow.

We are 'United in our Uniqueness' and committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels welcome and can be themselves, no matter their background or identity. We want our staff to feel supported and valued, and we aim to build a team that reflects the communities we serve. Together, we can make sure every voice is heard, and every difference is respected.

Please note, we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Please note: If you use Artificial Intelligence (AI) as part of your application, we encourage you to review the Trust's guidance on the use of AI within the recruitment process. Further information can be found on Join Us :: Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust or www.mpft.nhs.uk/joinus

Details

Date posted: 30 October 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8a

Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year Dependant on experience

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 301-RJ-26-8385204

Job responsibilities

• Work autonomously using their expertise and high level complex decision-making skills to inform high-quality clinical assessment, and evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses, intervention, and treatment plans where required.
• Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements, diagnoses, and treatment plans.
• Use specialist knowledge of investigations and treatment options to provide patients with necessary information to obtain informed consent before any clinical intervention is undertaken.
• Initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions which may include prescribing medicines, therapies, lifestyle advice and care in line with policies, guidelines, & pathways but where necessary seeks consensus from the wider clinical team to apply justifiable deviance from published guidelines and policies.
• Demonstrate sound clinical judgement including when working with complexity, risk or uncertainty and incomplete information showing awareness of own competence and scope of practice when treating a wide range of patient problems.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to care for patients in complex and/or urgent situations, demonstrating critical reflection on own practice, supporting colleagues to reflect and seeking advice as required.
• Have highly developed physical/procedural skills relevant to their role, which may include, Intermediate life support.
• Order and/or perform diagnostic/therapeutic procedures such as venepuncture, cannulation, ECG recording, which may include interpreting or providing formal report.
• Using specialist knowledge and experience within the specialty, provide advice and support to colleagues, acting as a resource to the wider clinical team.
• Manage contentious and challenging issues, seeking advice and guidance as required, to ensure very sensitive or complex information is communicated to patients and their family / carers in empathetic and appropriate manner, providing reassurance and support as appropriate with the person at the centre of care. This would typically include the delivering of difficult / unwelcome news related to diagnosis and / or treatment i.e. news of serious illness.
• Act as a clinical role model and advocate for developing high quality, compassionate care with privacy and dignity to ensure a person-centred approach to the delivery of care.
• Ensure that accurate contemporaneous documentation/records of care are completed in line with trust policies and professional codes of conduct.
• Ensure adherence to moving and handling policy and procedures when in contact with/manoeuvring patients.
• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of patients and upholding the professional standards detailed within the NMC/HCPC Codes, including revalidation standards.
• Work in partnership with patients, carers, lived experience colleagues and system partners to ensure the effective, person-centred delivery of D2A pathways, supporting timely discharge and continuity of care across organisational boundaries.
• Provide expert clinical decision-making and consultancy-level advice to multidisciplinary colleagues (including acute clinicians, GPs, therapists, nurses, community teams, and social care) on the management of complex and high-risk patients within D2A pathways.
• Undertake and interpret comprehensive assessments, using advanced clinical reasoning to determine appropriate onward care, including referral to diagnostics, community services, urgent response teams, or specialist services as required.
• Contribute to clinical debrief following clinical incidents.

Person Specification

Essential

• Experience of working within D2A Services
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner
• Approved MSc in Advanced clinical practice.

Desirable

• Demonstrate specialist level of expertise in D2A Services / Pathways
• Able to influence at all levels and produce work of publishable quality
• Post graduate Continuing Professional Development in specialist clinical field - D2A

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Haywood Community Hospital, High Lane, Burslem, ST6 7AG, United Kingdom

Contact: Operational Lead Discharge to Assess, John Smith, [e-mail], 01782673795