Advanced Clinical Practitioner - UEC

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is recruiting an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join the Urgent and Emergency Care Services in Shrewsbury. The role provides advanced clinical care in a seven-day service, delivering safe alternatives to hospital admission through home visits and digital tools.

You will work within the multidisciplinary team, hold a MSc in Advanced Practice, and be registered with NMC/HCPC.

Qualifications

• MSc qualification in Advanced Practice.
• Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional with current NMC / HCPC registration.
• Relevant qualifications or demonstrable equivalent experience in speciality (Frailty, Care of the elderly/Geriatric’s, End of Life, ALS, minor injuries/illness)
• Evidence of recent CPD
• Teaching and Mentoring qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Deliver an advanced level of clinical practice autonomously in general medicine, Frailty, Respiratory, and Cardiology.
• Ensure high quality, person-centred care through advanced clinical judgements, investigations, diagnosis, prescribing, planning, implementing and evaluating care.
• Embrace the four pillars of clinical practice: leadership and management, education and research.

Skills

Autonomous practice

Clinical reasoning

Advanced clinical judgement

Education

MSc in Advanced Practice

NMC/HCPC registration

CPD evidenced

Teaching & mentoring qualification

Frailty/elderly care experience

Job description

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Main area Advanced Clinical Practitioner Grade NHS AfC Band 8a Contract Permanent: Bank also available Hours

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37.5 hours per week (Bank only also available) Job ref 825-8065097-OPS-A

Site Mount McKinley Town Shrewsbury Salary £57,528 - £64,750 per annum / pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 06/11/2026 23:59

We recognise that applicants may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to help build your application. However, all information provided must be an accurate reflection of your skills, knowledge, qualifications and experience. Candidates should be prepared to discuss and evidence the content of their application during the recruitment process.

We believe that compassionate care sits at the heart of everything we do. Every member of our team — clinical or non-clinical — plays a vital role in ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect at all times.

We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.

Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.

By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values — ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) Services which include Urgent Community Response (UCR), Virtual Ward (VW) and Integrated front door (IFD).

The post will form part of a seven-day service based within one of the Trust’s locality teams. The service provides patients who are experiencing an acute change in their health, a safe and effective alternative to hospital admission, supported by a mixture of face to face visits and digital technology.

We are looking for Advanced Clinical Practitioner's (ACP) who share our passion for providing excellent quality of care and can devise and support the delivery of a holistic and thorough treatment plan to service users in their own home. The post holders will have full access to the Multidisciplinary Team including consultant, GP, Pharmacist, Nurses, Therapists, and Health Care Support Workers.

Permanent and Bank opportunities are available.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is required to deliver an advanced level of clinical practice autonomously in the fields of general medicine, Frailty, Respiratory, and Cardiology for patients who are supported by the team as an alternative to hospital admission.

The role will ensure that consistent, high quality, person-centred care is provided daily through the application of advanced clinical judgments and critical thinking to assess, investigate, diagnose, prescribe, plan, implement and evaluate clinical care in line with the National Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice. Embracing the four pillars of clinical practice; leadership and management, education and research.

Working for our organisation

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

• MSc qualification in Advanced Practice
• Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional with current NMC / HCPC registration
• Relevant qualifications or demonstrable equivalent experience in speciality (Frailty, Care of the elderly/Geriatric’s, End of Life, ALS, minor injuries/illness)
• Evidence of recent CPD
• Teaching and Mentoring qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience

Experience

• Evidence of expert professional/clinical knowledge and experience within an acute and/or community setting
• Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner as an ACP, managing patients with undiagnosed clinical conditions, requiring investigations, interpretation of diagnostics, formulation and adjustment of management plans
• Evidence in involvement in supporting the development of programmes if care, protocols and clinical audit
• Evidence of relevant involvement in meeting the Trust clinical governance objective

Knowledge & Skills

• ACP underpinned by theory and experience.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• Ability to translate and integrate evidence-based research/guidelines into the development of pathways of care
• Ability to manage change and contain conflict ensuring resolution with positive outcomes, with the use of negotiation skills
• Computer literate and experience of working with clinical systems
• Excellent clinical reasoning/clinical decision- making
• Knowledge of NHS Community Services

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700 or the 'going rate' for the job you will be doing (whichever is higher). For a limited number of clinical posts ( listed here ), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher ). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.

Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.

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.