Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Integrated Urgent Care Service

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health service provider located in the United Kingdom is looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to provide excellent patient-centered care. The role involves complex clinical decision-making and leadership in urgent care settings. Candidates should have significant experience, including independent prescribing and using clinical systems like SystmOne. Flexible working options available.

Qualifications

• Experience in chronic disease management.
• Significant post-registration experience in advanced clinical practice.
• Ability to work autonomously in an urgent care setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical advice and support to clinicians.
• Conduct independent assessments and manage service users.
• Lead quality improvement initiatives.

Skills

Professional registration

Assessment and diagnosis

Remote consultation

Communication skills

Education

MSc Advanced Practice

Registered independent prescriber

Tools

SystmOne

CLEO clinical systems

Job description

Go back Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Integrated Urgent Care Service

The closing date is 26 October 2025

The Advanced Practitioner will work as an autonomous practitioner using complex decision making skills. The post holders primary focus will be the provision of excellent patientcentred care, underpinned by the four pillars of clinical practice (competence and capability), leadership and management, education and research.

Care delivery will encompass the skills of telephone triage, remote assessment and face to face clinical assessment, examination, clinical diagnosis and the development and delivery of effective urgent treatment for patients attending with differentiated and undifferentiated individual circumstances and complex situations, undiagnosed primary/ urgent health care problems of full general practice patient needs including paediatrics, care of elderly and mental health.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide expert clinical advice, leadership and support to other clinicians ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical analysis and advanced decision-making skills.

The post holder will be accountable for the direct delivery of autonomous service user care using advanced clinical knowledge that is evidence based. They will undertake independent comprehensive assessment and management of service users to incorporate pharmacological considerations, making complex clinical decisions regarding service user management and clinical outcomes. They will lead as a driver for change, to monitor and improve standards through supervision, evidence-based practice, clinical audit, research and education. This is a designated non- medical prescribing post.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities

The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details of the role. If you would like an informal chat to discuss the role requirements please contact Gavin Harrison.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional registration with registered body e.g. NMC, HCPC, GPhC with significant post registration experience relevant to role
• MSc Advanced Practice with NHSE Digital Badge or evidence to support professional clinical knowledge that covers all 4 pillars (as above) of the Advanced Clinical Practice capabilities (including physical assessment and physiological reasoning qualifications at Masters level) and ability to undertake supported ePortfolio Route to gain NHSE Digital Badge
• Registered as an independent prescriber with the relevant registered body (NMC, HCPC, GPhC etc)
• Skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice, to include paediatrics and end of life care
• Experience in chronic disease
• Experience with SystmOne and/or CLEO clinical systems and PaCCS
• Experience in remote consultation

Experience

• Significant post registration (the multi-rofessional framework for advanced clinical practice in England suggests 5 years) experience where autonomous working at an advanced level has been acquired in the speciality area or a related area where advanced skills could be transferable.
• Experience working in Urgent/ Primary/ Acute care in a community setting
• Experience of working within multi professional settings with consolidated clinical practice and contributing to effective team working
• Experience of leading evidenced service / Quality improvement and innovation through service /practice development initiatives, audit or research.
• Experience of work using telephone triage

Knowledge

• Demonstrates good communication skills and articulate at all levels utilising appropriate media (written/verbal, electronic etc.)
• Information management skills including diagnostic and data interpretation, and record keeping
• Ability to recognise the effects of work pressures and respond accordingly
• Demonstrates a model of reflective practice
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner showing adaptability, reliability and flexibility
• Experience of working with unpredictable patients who are clinically unwell
• Ability to utilise IT systems to record patient care and engage with colleagues including Outlook and MS programmes

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.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Forest Hospital, Cirencester Hospital and Stroud Hospital

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearper annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time

Reference number

327-25-822

Job locations

Forest Hospital, Cirencester Hospital and Stroud Hospital