Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Same Day Emergency Care

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Newport; On-site; GBP 66,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing

Staff recognition

Cycle to Work

Car lease schemes

Season ticket loan

Onsite leisure facilities

Job summary

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is recruiting an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to support Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) at St Mary’s Hospital. This Band 8a permanent, full-time post offers diverse clinical responsibilities and opportunities to develop leadership and teaching skills.

You will work across emergency medicine with a focus on rapid assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and patient-centred care, with access to education, research and personal development time.

Qualifications

• BSc in Nursing or other relevant healthcare professions.
• MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice.
• Non-medical prescribing.
• Certificated speciality courses.
• Recognised teaching qualification.
• Registration with the appropriate healthcare governing body.
• Working towards advanced level credentialing.

Responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment for patients in SDEC.
• Empower patients with information and evidence-based care.
• Apply clinical reasoning to complex presentations and risk.
• Provide information from diverse sources for accurate diagnoses.
• Initiate and modify interventions including medicines and lifestyle advice.
• Collaborate with MDT and wider system to manage risk across settings.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers, including breaking difficult news.

Skills

AdvancedClinicalPractice

Autonomous practitioner

Emergency care

Clinical leadership

Research & audit

Teaching/education

NHS experience

Education

BSc Nursing or equivalent

MSc Advanced Clinical Practice

Non-medical prescribing

Certificated speciality courses

Teaching qualification

Governing body registration

Advanced credentialing

Job description

Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Same Day Emergency Care

Band 8a

Main area Same Day Emergency Care Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 290-MIC-2262

Site St Mary’s Hospital Town London Salary £66,274 - £73,496 pa inclusive Salary period Yearly Closing 01/10/2026 23:59

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Same day emergency care has become pivotal to delivering urgent and emergency care. It offers the opportunity to get involved in the delivery of new models of care, a range of presentations and exciting case mix in a controlled and supportive environment. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has two emergency medicine run SDEC units on the St Mary's and Charing Cross sites and is expanding the service on both sites to optimise patient pathways.

We are looking for energetic, enthusiastic practitioners with a minimum of 1 year experience in emergency or acute medicine who will contribute to this expansion and enhancement of the quality of care to patients. We work alongside acute medicine SDEC and collaborate closely with other specialties.

There are opportunities to develop improvement skills, research and education skills as well as access to the resources of Imperial College. Postholders have personal development time in addition to study leave and will be able to work in the Emergency Department on shifts if that is part of the personal development plan.

Main duties of the job

• Assess diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting to the Same Day Emergency Care services
• Empower patients to make informed choices and decisions by applying, sharing and explaining advanced specialist knowledge of research outcomes and evidence-based practice.
• Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations.
• Use and provide service‑related information from a range of sources to make appropriate, evidence‑based judgements and diagnoses.
• Initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions that may include prescribing medicines, therapies, life style advice and care.
• Exercise professional judgement to manage risk in complex and unpredictable events or cases. Provide support to the team to ensure the safety of patients, families and carers.
• Work collaboratively with the MDT and more widely across the healthcare system to develop, maintain and evaluate methods to manage risk and issues across a range of settings.
• Communicate effectively with diverse groups; patients, carers, relatives where the practitioner may need to breakdown and interpret highly complex information in order to provide reassurance and/or ensure understanding and motivate the individual to co-operate with their treatment plan. The practitioner may also need to break bad news in a sensitive, empathetic manner.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Environmental sustainability
Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people’s health and wellbeing and widines health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description.

Person specification

Education

• BSc in Nursing or other relevant healthcare professions
• MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
• Non-medical prescribing
• Certificated speciality courses
• Recognised teaching qualification
• Registration with the appropriate healthcare governing body
• Working towards advanced level credentialing

EXPERIENCE

• Experience of managing and running clinics
• Able to work as an autonomous practitioner
• Broad clinical experience relevant to the post
• Specialist skills and experience in the speciality
• Clinical leadership at a senior level in an acute setting including people, financial and change management
• Experience of managing investigations and resolving complaints
• Developed a network of clinical and academic contacts across the system
• Evidence of teaching experience
• Experience of running research and audit and implementing innovative practices
• Experience working at a senior level in Same Day Emergency Care/Urgent Care or the Emergency Department

Right to work

If you need sponsorship to work in the UK, please visit the Home Office website for information on sponsorship and visa status before you fill in your application form. Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on UK Visas and Immigration - GOV.UK

We operate a joint recruitment hub across the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative Group. As part of this, your application and personal data may be shared with partner trusts within the group for recruitment and workforce purposes, in line with general data protection regulation (GDPR).

Vacancy Closing Date

This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.