Advanced Clinical Practitioner | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is hiring an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the Physical Healthcare Team at Guild Lodge, providing expert assessment and management of physical health conditions within a secure inpatient setting.

The post requires an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice, a first degree in a registered health profession and a non-medical prescribing qualification, with at least five years post-qualification experience and strong leadership and teaching

Qualifications

• Must have MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice and a first degree in a registered health profession.
• Non-medical prescribing qualification required.
• Minimum five years post-qualification clinical experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment and management of physical health conditions.
• Respond to acute physical health concerns within scope.
• Support long-term conditions management and preventative care.
• Undertake advanced clinical assessment and diagnostic decision-making.
• Prescribe and review medications as a non-medical prescriber.
• Offer expert clinical advice to ward teams.

Skills

Advanced clinical assessment

Clinical leadership

Decision-making

Teaching and service improvement

Education

MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice

First degree in a registered health profession

Non-medical prescribing qualification

Job description

Advanced Clinical Practitioner | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the Physical Healthcare Team at Guild Lodge.

Guild Lodge provides medium secure, low secure and step-down inpatient care for people with complex mental health needs. The service supports individuals who may have significant physical health inequalities alongside severe mental illness, making timely, coordinated and high-quality physical healthcare an essential part of their treatment and recovery.

This is a key clinical leadership role within the continuing development of an integrated physical healthcare service. The successful candidate will help strengthen the service’s response to acute physical health concerns while also supporting preventative care, long-term condition management and the reduction of health inequalities.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will exercise advanced clinical judgement and autonomous decision-making to assess, diagnose, investigate and manage people presenting with complex physical and mental health needs. You will develop evidence-based care plans, undertake physical examinations, request and interpret appropriate investigations, prescribe within your professional scope and respond promptly to changes in a patient’s condition.

The role will include:

• Providing specialist assessment and management of physical health conditions.
• Responding to acute physical health concerns within an agreed scope of practice.
• Supporting the management of long-term conditions and preventative healthcare.
• Undertaking advanced clinical assessment, examination, formulation and diagnostic decision-making.
• Requesting and interpreting appropriate clinical investigations.
• Prescribing and reviewing medication as a qualified Non-Medical prescriber.
• Providing expert clinical advice to ward teams and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Supporting the development of clear referral, escalation and clinical governance arrangements.
• Delivering clinical supervision, education and training.
• Leading audit, service evaluation, research and evidence-based improvement.
• Contributing to the development of clinical pathways, guidelines and protocols

Applicants must be registered healthcare professionals with an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice, a first degree in a registered health profession and a non-medical prescribing qualification. You will require a minimum of five years' post-qualification experience, strong clinical assessment and leadership skills, and significant experience of risk assessment, clinical decision-making, teaching and evidence-based service improvement. Experience of physical healthcare, primary care, acute assessment or working with people who have complex mental health needs would be particularly valuable.

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here:Keeping our workforce well

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.

This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Nov 2026