Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join their Emergency Care team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in advanced clinical practice, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage a diverse patient caseload. This position offers opportunities for professional growth and supportive training in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Significant post registration experience in a senior position.
• Direct supervision of junior staff and students.
• Evidence of managing acute presentations.

Responsibilities

• Assess, treat, and manage a diverse caseload of patients requires unscheduled care.
• Collaborate with Medical Staff and fellow ACPs.
• Provide clinical supervision and training.

Skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Broad & advanced knowledge of clinical pathophysiology

Proven management skills

IT literate

Clinical diagnostic skills

Education

MSc in advanced clinical practice

Registered with relevant healthcare professional body

Non-medical prescriber

Job description

Overview

Go back Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The closing date is 22 October 2025

Are you an autonomous practitioner with proven expertise across the four pillars of advanced practice--clinical care, education, leadership, and research? We're looking for a dynamic Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our Emergency Care team and make a real impact.

You'll assess, treat, and manage a diverse, undifferentiated caseload of patients requiring unscheduled care. Working alongside Medical Staff and fellow ACPs, you'll rotate through day and evening shifts to support our 24/7 clinical service. You'll also collaborate with our Emergency Nurse Practitioner (ENP) service, which operates 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, delivering care for minor injuries and illnesses.

You'll receive clinical supervision, teaching, and training primarily from the Emergency Department/Urgent and Emergency Care Division at Kings Mill Hospital. Rotations between Newark UCC and KMH ED sites will help maintain your skills and support your professional growth.

If you're ready to take your advanced practice to the next level in a fast-paced, supportive environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as \'outstanding\' for care and our King\'s Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

• Excellent oral and written communication skills and confidence to discuss patient management with other members of the MDT
• Broad & advanced knowledge of clinical pathophysiology
• Has a sound level of knowledge in relation to invasive and non invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
• Ability to take a full systematic focused history
• Ability to make a diagnosis based on interpretation of imaging and pathology results
• Has the knowledge to support safe clinical decision making in relation to discharge
• Proven management skills- effective organisational abilities, supervisory skills, leadership skills, change management skills. Clinical governance, current health service priorities. National and local nursing agenda
• IT literate
• Knowledge of more than one area of clinical practice - i.e surgery, medicine, orthopaedics, ITU
• Health and safety

Qualifications

• Registered with relevant healthcare professional body (NMC / HCPC / GPC etc)
• MSc in advanced clinical practice
• Meet the criteria as outlined by the relevant specialty college or faculty (where applicable)
• Evidence of on-going personal and professional development
• ALS provider
• Non-medical prescriber
• Relevant teaching qualification
• Evidence of research and audit
• Ability to perform basic interpretation of CT brain & Skeletal X-ray
• ALS Instructor

Experience

• Significant post registration experience, most recent of which should be in a senior position OR experience as defined by specialty college/faculty
• Direct supervision of junior staff
• Supervision of students
• Evidence of contribution to audit programmes within practice
• Evidence of managing complex patients in stressful and emotional situations where lifechanging events are being communicated and clinically managed
• Relevant teaching/supervising/mentoring experience
• Evidence of managing acute presentations
• Clinical diagnostic skills including the ability to interpret as a minimum CXR, and laboratory investigations
• Professional and patient focused, with a strong commitment to providing high quality care
• Project management

Contractual Requirements

• Ability to work flexibly within working hours of ward/department

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.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust