Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

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

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

My Reward Hub discounts

Wages on demand

Wellbeing support

Learning & development opportunities

Innovation funding

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our Inpatient Unit teams. The role delivers advanced clinical care within hospital-at-home/community inpatient services, collaborating with consultants, nursing and therapy staff to support rehabilitation and safe discharge planning.

You will assess patients, plan management, order investigations and participate in multidisciplinary rounds, audits, and service development.

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, Car driver, access to a vehicle for daily use.

Responsibilities

• Assess newly admitted patients, formulate diagnoses and management plans.
• Request and interpret investigations and deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.
• Contribute to discharge planning and communicate with GPs, relatives and carers about significant changes.
• Undertake clinical audits, quality improvement initiatives and service development projects.
• Maintain professional development through mandatory training, appraisal and revalidation activities.

Skills

Autonomous practice

Leadership

Frailty & elderly care

Education

NMC/HCPC registration

Tools

Driving licence

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 or BaNES 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, you will provide advanced clinical care to patients within our community inpatient rehabilitation services, primarily based at St Martins Hospital, with occasional cross-cover support at Paulton Memorial Hospital. You will assess newly admitted patients, formulate diagnoses and management plans, request and interpret investigations, and deliver high-quality, patient-centred care that supports rehabilitation and recovery.

Working autonomously within your scope of practice, you will manage complex clinical presentations and respond to acute health concerns that arise during a patient's inpatient stay. You will work closely with Consultant Geriatricians, specialist doctors, nursing teams, and therapists, contributing to ward rounds, multidisciplinary team meetings, and decision-making to ensure safe, effective, and coordinated care. You will play a key role in discharge planning, referring patients to specialist services when appropriate and ensuring effective communication with GPs, relatives, and carers regarding significant changes in a patient's condition. You will also complete accurate discharge summaries, including medication information, treatment recommendations, and ongoing care plans to support a smooth transition back into the community. In addition, you will uphold the highest standards of clinical practice while contributing to clinical audit, quality improvement initiatives, and service development projects. You will maintain your professional development through mandatory training, appraisal, and revalidation activities, joining a compassionate and forward-thinking team dedicated to achieving the best possible outcomes for patients in our local community.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join the HCRG Care Group Inpatient Unit team. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a supportive multidisciplinary environment, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across our community inpatient services.

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

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.