Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join their Rapid Diagnostic Centre. This role involves delivering high-quality patient assessments, making critical clinical decisions, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. The successful candidate will work autonomously, ensuring optimal patient care while supporting service development and maintaining clinical excellence. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to innovative healthcare solutions in a supportive environment, making a real difference in patient outcomes. If you are passionate about advancing your clinical practice, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Professional registration with NMC/AHP is essential.
• Advanced clinical skills in assessment and care planning.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality clinical care and make critical decisions.
• Lead service developments and contribute to clinical pathways.

Skills

Advanced Practice PGDip

ALS provider

Teaching Qualification

Leadership Qualification

Non-Medical Prescriber

Working towards MSc

Education

NMC/AHP registration

Job description

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Client:

North Middlesex University Hospital

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

28.04.2025

Expiry Date:

12.06.2025

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Job overview

Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) Rapid Diagnostic Centre (RDC) (Band 8a)

Contract - Fixed Term (1 year). Full-time 37.7 hours per week.

This post will be based at North Middlesex University Hospital (NMUH) to support the RDC team and our clinical lead in maintaining the standards required by the Cancer Alliance.

The post holder will be a key member of the RDC team and will work closely with the Clinical Lead and Service Manager.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) is relatively new. Working as part of the multidisciplinary team, they make an important contribution. The role encompasses undertaking assessment of patients attending our RDC (Rapid Diagnostic Centre) clinics using a range of different assessment and management methods, which may include physical examination, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, prescribing medicines (subject to holding a non-medical prescribing qualification), and advanced health needs to provide high-quality clinical assessment, intervention, and treatment for a wide variety of patients presenting to NMUH.

To work autonomously at an advanced clinical level in the direct delivery of high-quality care, making critical clinical decisions based on thorough clinical assessment and interpretation of diagnostic interventions and delivery of therapeutic interventions.

The post holder will demonstrate sound clinical decision-making and deliver expert care for a wide variety of patients presenting to the NMUH with undifferentiated diagnoses.

To work within the pillars of the Multi-professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England through collaboration with clinical teams to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery and development of service, policy, and procedures, and ensuring the maintenance of clinical excellence.

Working for our organisation

North Mid is part of the North Central London integrated care system – consisting of NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey. As with other ICSs, we are working increasingly closely with partners, and many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. While all organisations remain standalone statutory bodies, we have an ICS infrastructure for shared decision-making and approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Assessment and care planning to meet health and wellbeing needs

• Ensure that patients receive high-quality clinical care, including formulating a working medical diagnosis for patients sometimes presenting with undifferentiated urgent or emergency health care
• Ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests.
• Request initial laboratory and radiological tests as required
• Work competently as an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner, being aware of role boundaries, and referring patients appropriately to other healthcare professionals
• Making referrals to other healthcare providers
• Prescribing medicines/PGDs
• Ensure effective discharge planning and health promotion
• Monitor quality and continuity of patient care, ensuring standards are maintained
• Ensure accurate, contemporaneous, and comprehensive documentation
• Establish and maintain effective communication with nursing, medical, and paramedical colleagues to provide optimum patient care
• Communicate effectively with patients, relatives, and carers
• Ensure patients are informed and consent is obtained prior to treatment, investigation, and management
• Participate in nursing audits and implement improvements
• Provide expert nursing/medical advice and support to patients, families, and healthcare professionals following diagnosis
• Liaise with community, social services, paramedics, and voluntary organizations to develop services
• Coordinate with MDT and outside agencies for discharge/follow-up arrangements
• Gather patient feedback to improve services
• Implement infection prevention and control systems and relevant audits
• Identify vulnerable adults at risk of abuse

2. Managerial responsibilities:

• Contribute to review and development of clinical pathways
• Lead service developments
• Participate in recruitment and staff orientation
• Manage incidents of violence/aggression
• Address disciplinary situations appropriately
• Participate in management and development of the service
• Investigate adverse incidents
• Support operational and strategic development of the service
• Collaborate with other disciplines within the Trust and local areas
• Lead change initiatives
• Support managers and staff in practice improvements
• Ensure adverse incident reporting in line with policy
• Network with clinical nurse/AHP specialists to promote excellence
• Use information systems for audit and analysis
• Maintain records and reports as required
• Ensure accurate medical records and submit relevant data
• Evaluate service effectiveness and value
• Optimize resource use within budget
• Develop links within primary, secondary, and tertiary care

Person specification

Professional Body

• NMC/AHP registration

Skills

• Advanced Practice PGDip
• ALS provider
• Teaching Qualification
• Leadership Qualification
• Non-Medical Prescriber
• Working towards MSc

Trust Values

• Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications are received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit

NMUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of NMUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

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By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

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