Advanced Clinical Practitioner, MSDEC

NHS; Redditch; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Redditch is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner for the MSDEC service. This role involves expert clinical assessment, leadership, and managing a diverse patient population. Candidates must have a nursing degree, Masters in Advanced Practice, and experience in urgent care settings. The position requires excellent communication skills, the ability to work autonomously, and a commitment to continuous medical education. Flexible working options are available.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Professional development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Nursing degree or equivalent qualification.
• Masters in Advanced Practice (MSc) and competence in managing acute illness.
• Experience as a fully trained ACP in Urgent Care/Acute Medicine/ED.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical assessment and treatment.
• Lead and influence clinical practice across the Trust.
• Support the growth of leadership capacity within the department.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Team collaboration

Communication

Management experience

Critical thinking

Education

Nursing degree or equivalent

Masters in Advanced Practice

Non-Medical Prescribing

Job description

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Advanced Clinical Practitioner, MSDEC

The closing date is 11 January 2026

Medical Same Day Emergency Care (MSDEC) enables early senior clinical decision-making, streamlining patient assessment and treatment through direct access and referral pathways. By maximizing opportunities to complete care on the same day, MSDEC helps ensure patients receive timely, appropriate support often preventing unnecessary attendance to other urgent and emergency care services such as A&E.

At The Alexandra Hospital, we provide care for all medically expected ambulant patients, with plans for significant expansion. As part of this growth, the ACP will be integral in assessing, diagnosing, and treating the full range of medically expected patients, including those who are less ambulant or more acutely unwell.

Main duties of the job

• Provide expert clinical assessment, decision-making, and treatment.
• Lead and influence clinical practice, supporting the development of knowledge, skills, and roles across the Trust.
• Act as an expert resource within Urgent Care, ensuring patients and staff feel safe, supported, and heard.
• Advocate for and uphold exceptional standards of safety, quality, dignity, and respect.
• Support the growth of leadership capacity within the department, guiding nurses and support staff to deliver exemplary care.

This is a highly autonomous position within a fast‑paced, ACP‑driven service. You will be expected to work independently and be confident in working across the urgent care floor when required.

About us

Our purpose is simple – putting patients first. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital‑based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised for providing good and outstanding patient‑centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our vision – working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move forward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation – this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex‑positive employer.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Nursing degree or equivalent qualification.
• Masters in Advanced Practice (MSc) and competence in managing acute illness (medical, surgical) and injury.
• Previous ALS / EPALS / APLS / ETC / ATLS provider with update in last 5 years, or evidence of recent learning and development around life support course objectives.
• Non‑Medical Prescribing (update required).
• Instructor status.
• Successful completion of Collegiate Credentialing status.
• Minor Illness Module / Minor Injury Module.

Personal Attributes

• Ability to work effectively as a team member.
• Enquiring, critical approach to work.
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies.
• Commitment to continuous medical education.
• Diplomatic and tactful.
• Flexible approach to work duties.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to work without supervision.
• Reliable and supportive to other colleagues.
• Ability to work antisocial hours.

Experience

• Clinical experience.
• Experience as a fully trained ACP working in an Urgent Care/Acute Medicine/ED.
• Ability to manage differentiated and undifferentiated presentations in all areas/streams in the Acute Medicine.
• Knowledge to request and interpret appropriate investigations within accepted policies and practice.
• Management & administrative experience.
• Experience in managing and developing other healthcare professionals.
• Experience in establishing or helping to develop a service through quality improvement.
• Teaching experience, coordination of teaching programmes / conferences for the development of trainee ACPs.
• Teaching of junior medical staff and/or involvement in medical training programmes.
• Experience as a clinical or educational supervisor of trainee ACPs.
• Research experience and ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems.
• Good knowledge of critical appraisal and ability to use literature and current research/guidelines to improve patient care.
• Evidence of involvement in quality improvement or audit projects that have made a direct contribution to the improvement of a service.
• Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates.
• Experience of involvement in research or quality improvement projects.

Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment

As part of the Trust’s aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Here you can declare if you wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme and this response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.

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.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust