Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

HCRG Care Group; Bristol; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Discounts through My Reward Hub

Wage access as you earn

Wellbeing support and coaching

Learning and development through The L

Innovation funding and culture of good

CQC-rated excellence focus

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the Hospital at Home service, delivering acute hospital-level care across Wiltshire and neighbouring localities from a North Wiltshire base.

You will assess, diagnose and manage complex patients in home settings, provide clinical leadership within multidisciplinary teams, and help reduce hospital admissions while supporting safe discharges. NHS Pension and ongoing professional development available.

Qualifications

• Registered with the NMC or HCPC.
• Accredited Advanced Clinical Practice qualification.
• Non-medical prescriber qualification.
• Significant experience in frailty, elderly care, community services or acute care interfaces.
• Proven experience managing complex clinical caseloads and working autonomously at an advanced level.
• Demonstrable leadership and supervision experience within multidisciplinary teams.
• Clean driving licence and access to a vehicle for daily use.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a clinically autonomous service across Urgent Crisis Response, admission avoidance, frailty and Virtual Ward pathways.
• Assess, diagnose and manage patients with acute and complex needs, enabling safe discharge.
• Provide clinical leadership within the multidisciplinary team and role model best practice.

Skills

NMC/HCPC registration

Advanced Clinical Practice

Non-medical prescriber

Clinical autonomy

Leadership in MDT

Driving licence

Experience with frailty

Education

Accredited Advanced Clinical Practice qualification

Non-medical prescriber qualification

Job description

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you'll be part of our valued team in our Hospital at Home service based at in either Swindon, BaNES or Bristol localities, you will provide acute hospital-level care to patients across the locality.

• 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 every day 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 the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP), you will deliver a clinically autonomous service across Urgent Crisis Response, admission avoidance, frailty and Virtual Ward (Hospital at Home) pathways. Using advanced clinical expertise, you will assess, diagnose and manage patients with acute and complex needs, helping to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and support safe, timely discharge. You will apply advanced clinical reasoning to request and interpret investigations, initiate and review treatment plans, prescribe where appropriate, and monitor clinical and remote monitoring data to identify and respond to deterioration. Working collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team, you will develop and review personalised care plans that enable patients to receive high-quality acute care at home. You will provide clinical leadership and act as a senior decision-maker and role model, practising in line with the four pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice and NMC or HCPC standards. The role requires flexibility to travel across Wiltshire and contribute to a 7‑day service (07:00-22:00). While based in North Wiltshire, you may be required to work across other localities as the service evolves.

Essential

• Registered with the NMC or HCPC
• Accredited Advanced Clinical Practice qualification
• Non-medical prescriber qualification
• Significant experience in frailty, elderly care, community services or acute care interfaces
• Proven experience managing complex clinical caseloads and working autonomously at an advanced level
• Demonstrable leadership and supervision experience within multidisciplinary teams
• Clean driving licence, Car driver, access to a vehicle for daily use

Desirable

• Master's degree
• Advanced Clinical Practice Digital Badge
• Experience working in Hospital at Home, Virtual Ward or Urgent Care services

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Hospital at Home team as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) based at in either Swindon, BaNES or Bristol localities, you will provide acute hospital-level care to patients across the locality.. You will be delivering acute, hospital-level care to patients across BSW in the place they feel most comfortable: their own home.

Working at the forefront of modern healthcare, you will use your advanced clinical expertise to support patients who are either stepping up from community services or stepping down from an acute hospital setting. This innovative service bridges the gap between acute and community care, bringing together multidisciplinary expertise to deliver consistent, high-quality treatment across all pathways. Our Virtual Ward supports patients who would traditionally require hospital admission, instead enabling them to receive timely clinical review, remote monitoring, and holistic multidisciplinary care at home. This role offers the chance to make a real difference, reducing hospital stays while improving patient experience and outcomes. You will be part of a forward-thinking, compassionate team who share a passion for delivering safe, effective, and patient-centred care, while shaping the future of Hospital at Home services., We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here.

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.