Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Acp) - Pc24 - Face To Face Only

Nems Community Benefit Services Ltd; Mansfield; Vor Ort; GBP 55.000 - 75.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

NEMS Community Benefit Services Ltd is recruiting an Advanced Clinical Practitioner for our Kings Mill Hospital, Mansfield, focusing on face‑to‑face urgent care service delivery across the PC24 model. You will assess, treat, and discharge patients with undifferentiated urgent care presentations, and reference local pathways for safe escalation.

The role requires substantial clinical experience, NMC/HCPC registration and the ability to supervise trainees, drive service improvement, and maintain

Qualifikationen

• Registered clinician with autonomous assessment and management of urgent care presentations.
• Experience leading and supervising other clinicians or students.
• Prescribing or using local medicines mechanisms within scope where qualified.

Aufgaben

• Provide autonomous clinical care across face‑to‑face urgent care services.
• Assess, diagnose, treat, refer and discharge patients with undifferentiated urgent care presentations.
• Utilise investigations (blood tests, ECGs, imaging) within local policy.
• Ensure safe handover to ED, GP and community services as required.
• Lead on teaching, supervision and quality improvement within the team.

Kenntnisse

Autonomous decision making

Urgent care consultations

Clinical supervision

Ausbildung

NMC/HCPC registration

Masters in Advanced Clinical Practice

Independent prescribing qualification

Tools

Adastra

SystmOne

EMIS

Nervecentre

Jobbeschreibung

Job summary

NEMS Community Benefit Services Ltd

Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) - PC24 - Face To Face Only

The closing date is 25 October 2026

Job responsibilities

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will provide autonomous clinical care for our Kings Mill Hospital - PC24 location. The role is designed to focus on face‑to‑face consultations, supporting patients across Integrated Urgent Care Services, urgent treatment centres and other agreed service models.

The post holder will be an experienced registered clinician, able to assess, diagnose, treat, refer and discharge patients with undifferentiated urgent care presentations. They will work within their professional registration, agreed scope of practice, NEMS policies and local clinical pathways.

Face‑to‑face work will include assessment and management of patients presenting to NEMS urgent treatment services. The post holder will be expected to recognise serious illness, clinical deterioration, safeguarding concerns, mental health risk and presentations requiring escalation or transfer to another service.

They will also support clinical supervision, learning, audit, incident review and service improvement, ensuring that care remains safe, effective, patient centred and financially sustainable.

Clinical Practice and Service Delivery

Work as an autonomous Advanced Clinical Practitioner across NEMS urgent care services, focusing on face‑to‑face consultations.

• Assess, examine, diagnose, treat and safely discharge or refer patients with undifferentiated urgent care presentations.
• Make safe decisions around admission, transfer, referral, follow‑up and safety‑netting, working within professional competence and agreed local pathways.
• Recognise and act on serious illness, clinical deterioration, safeguarding concerns, mental health risk and presentations that require escalation to another service.
• Request and interpret appropriate investigations, including blood tests, urine tests, ECGs and imaging, in line with local policy, competence and relevant regulations.
• Prescribe, review and advise on medicines where qualified to do so, or use agreed local medicines mechanisms within scope.
• Maintain clear, accurate and timely clinical records, including assessment findings, clinical reasoning, advice given, decisions made and onward plans.

Face‑To‑Face Urgent Care

• Undertake face‑to‑face consultations across NEMS urgent care services, including assessment of minor illness, minor injury and other appropriate urgent care presentations.
• Carry out clinical procedures where trained, competent and required for patient care.
• Provide safe clinical handover to ED, specialties, GPs, community services or other colleagues where ongoing care is required.
• Support patient flow, streaming and redirection decisions where this forms part of the service model.

Clinical Leadership and Team Working

• Act as a senior clinical presence on shift, supporting colleagues and contributing to the safe running of the service.
• Provide advice, supervision and support to trainee ACPs, UCPs, nurses, AHPs, UCAs and non‑registered staff.
• Support induction, training, clinical supervision and competency development across the wider team.
• Escalate clinical or operational concerns early, particularly where patient safety, staffing, flow or professional practice may be affected.
• Address unsafe practice or poor behaviour in a professional and proportionate way, escalating concerns where required.

Governance, Quality and Service Improvement

• Contribute to a culture where incidents, complaints, audit, feedback and day‑to‑day operational learning are used to improve care.
• Take part in incident reviews, significant event analysis, complaint responses and shared learning activity where required.
• Support audit, quality improvement and service evaluation work across NEMS urgent care services.
• Contribute to the development and review of clinical guidelines, SOPs, pathways and local standards, ensuring they are practical, evidence‑based and relevant to the way services are delivered.
• Use available data, feedback and clinical experience to support improvements in patient flow, clinical quality, productivity and patient experience.

Education and Professional Development

• Maintain professional registration, mandatory training, clinical supervision, CPD and revalidation requirements.
• Maintain an up‑to‑date portfolio showing competence, scope of practice, reflective learning and prescribing practice where applicable.
• Share learning with colleagues through teaching, case discussion, supervision, peer review and practical shift‑based support.
• Support students, trainees and developing practitioners in a safe and constructive way, recognising their competence and learning needs.

Professional Responsibilities

• Work within relevant NMC, HCPC or equivalent code of conduct, NEMS policies and agreed scope of practice.
• Communicate clearly with patients, carers and colleagues, particularly where information is complex, sensitive or distressing.
• Involve patients in decisions about their care and ensure that consent, capacity and best‑interest issues are considered and documented appropriately.
• Maintain confidentiality and information governance standards at all times.
• Work flexibly across NEMS sites and services where reasonably required, in line with service need, competence and contractual arrangements.
• Undertake any other reasonable duties requested by a manager, where these are appropriate to the role, grade and competence of the post holder.
• Act in a manner that reflects and promotes the values of NEMS.

Person Specification

Values

• Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual, is non‑judgemental
• Motivated to be genuinely kind and caring
• Helps and co‑operates with colleagues
• Pro‑active and takes responsibility
• Willing to learn, open to change
• Motivated to make a difference

Knowledge

• NMC, HCPC or equivalent professional standards
• Medico‑legal aspects of advanced practice
• Assessment and management of urgent care presentations, including recognition of red flags and clinical deterioration
• Safeguarding adults and children
• Mental capacity, consent and mental health risk
• Confidentiality and information governance
• Clinical governance, audit, incident learning and quality improvement

Desirable Knowledge

• Knowledge of NEMS services, local urgent care pathways and system partners
• National standards relevant to urgent care, out‑of‑hours and clinical assessment services

Experience

• Experience of working clinically in a primary, community, urgent care, emergency care or out‑of‑hospital setting
• Experience of autonomous assessment and management of undifferentiated patients
• Experience of face‑to‑face urgent care consultations
• Experience of supervising, supporting or teaching other clinical staff or students

Desirable Experience

• Experience working in Urgent Treatment Centres, GP Out‑of‑Hours, Clinical Assessment Services or Emergency Departments
• Experience of acting as shift lead, clinical co‑ordinator or senior clinician on duty

Qualifications

• Current professional registration with NMC, HCPC or equivalent professional body
• Evidence of working at an advanced level of clinical practice
• Masters level qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice, or equivalent evidence of advanced practice capability
• Independent non‑medical prescribing qualification, or willingness to complete where required for the role
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable Qualifications

• Minor illness or minor injury qualification
• IR(ME)R / imaging requesting training where relevant
• ILS, ALS or equivalent urgent care training

Skills & Abilities

• Able to make safe, autonomous clinical decisions and recognise when to seek advice or escalate
• Explains complex situations in ways that are accessible to patients, carers and colleagues
• Maintains clear, accurate and timely clinical records
• Able to work under pressure and manage competing clinical priorities
• Able to work collaboratively with teams across professional and organisational boundaries
• Flexible and adaptable to changing service needs
• Commitment to patient centred care and safe service delivery

Desirable Skills & Abilities

• Competent in the use of Adastra, SystmOne, EMIS, Nervecentre or other relevant clinical systems
• Able to contribute to audit, service improvement and pathway development

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.

Employer details

Employer name: NEMS Community Benefit Services Ltd

Address: Kings Mill Hospital, Mansfield, SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD, Nottinghamshire, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom

Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact: Recruitment, Recruitment Team, [e-mail]