Advanced Practitioner

Healthier South Wirral; England; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner to lead innovative care initiatives. In this role, you'll manage patient care through acute clinics, home visits, and care home ward rounds, delivering high-quality, person-centred healthcare across diverse settings. The position offers autonomy and the chance to impact community health positively. Ideal candidates have significant clinical experience, are passionate about patient care, and thrive in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Advanced Nurse Practitioner OR HCPC Registered Paramedic.
• Experience managing acute illness presentations.
• Proficient in clinical governance within primary care.

Responsibilities

• Running acute care clinics with autonomy.
• Providing responsive home visits to patients.
• Leading proactive care home ward rounds.

Skills

Excellent communication

Clinical assessment

Team collaboration

Autonomous management

Education

Degree-diploma level in Paramedicine or equivalent experience

Job description

Are you an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner looking for a role that offers true variety, autonomy, and the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in patients' lives? Come and be part of a dynamic, supportive, and innovative PCN that truly values your expertise. At HSW PCN, we're not just ticking boxes we're transforming care across our community. As an ACP, you'll be empowered to lead from the front in a role that spans acute clinics, home visits, and care home ward rounds. This is your opportunity to make a real difference to some of the most vulnerable people in our community, while working in a forward‑thinking environment that respects your clinical judgment and supports your growth.

Job summary

What You'll Be Doing:

• Running acute care clinics with autonomy, supported by a team who values your input
• Providing responsive home visits, allowing patients to receive quality care where they feel safest
• Leading proactive care home ward rounds, improving outcomes and quality of life for residents
• Working alongside a multidisciplinary team that includes GPs, pharmacists, social prescribers, and mental health professionals
• Driving innovation in care delivery with the support of a PCN that invests in its people and infrastructure

We're offering a chance to be part of something bigger: transforming primary care from the ground up.

The role requires availability on a rota basis to work within our Enhanced Access service, this will include occasional Saturday work.

Main duties of the job

The Advanced Practitioner will play a vital role in delivering care across various settings, including acute clinics, home visits, and care home ward rounds. They will also contribute to person‑specific models of care, such as frailty pathways.

This role requires the autonomous management of patients with unplanned or urgent healthcare needs and demands significant experience in managing both long‑term conditions and complex cases.

The practitioner will be instrumental in ensuring the delivery of consistent, high‑quality, person‑centred care. Responsibilities include assessing individual patient needs, formulating diagnoses, and initiating appropriate, evidence‑based interventions. A key component of the role is developing personalised, holistic management plans tailored to each patient’s unique circumstances.

About us

Healthier South Wirral consists of 5 GP practices: Eastham Group Practice, Sunlight Group Practice, The Orchard Surgery, Civic Medical Centre, and Spital Surgery.

We focus on delivering proactive, personalised, and integrated care, with services spanning acute clinics, home visits, care home ward rounds, mental health support, and prevention programmes.

What Makes Us Stand Out

• Multi-disciplinary team including GPs, ACPs, paramedics, pharmacists, care coordinators, social prescribers & mental health staff
• Strong focus on preventative care, including innovative work on cardiovascular disease and health inequalities
• Community outreach and clinics delivered closer to patients' homes
• Collaborative leadership and a culture of continuous improvement

We're proud to be a patient‑centred, inclusive PCN that empowers clinicians to work at the top of their licence with the flexibility, support, and autonomy to make a real difference.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Communication

Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients and their families are fully informed and consent to treatment.

Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.

Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication.

Maintain effective communication within the practice environment and with external stakeholders.

Act as an advocate for patients and colleagues.

Ensure awareness of sources of support and guidance for patients, relatives and work colleagues, for example the complaints department etc. and provide information in an acceptable format, recognising any difficulties and referring where appropriate.

Motivate staff to achieve personal and departmental targets and standards.

To work as part of a wider team to ensure that the care of people living with Frailty is based on relevant best practice guidance including, NSFs and NICE guidance and ICB policies.

Analytical Tasks

Use technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information.

Review and process data using accurate SNOMED codes in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes.

Manage information searches using the internet and local library databases.

Understand responsibility of self and others to the practice and primary care trust regarding the Freedom of Information Act.

Present clinical data and information to the MDT team to agree patient pathway.

Physical Skills

Able to travel across sites and South Wirral footprint.

Work is physically challenging and will include physical examination of patients, lifting and handling of patients and equipment.

Undertake a range of diagnostics including ECG and phlebotomy and near‑patient testing as appropriate.

Keyboard skills; knowledge of electronic care records and mobile working, databases, spreadsheet, email, word processing, presentation, email, Internet, Intranet and clinical software systems.

Responsibility for Patient Care

Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the HCPC.

Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.

Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.

Deliver care according to NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence‑based care.

Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.

Initiate and participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities.

Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required.

In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.

Evaluate patients' response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.

Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation.

Contribute to the appraisal of the performance of the team, providing feedback as appropriate.

Understand and apply legal issues that support the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, and be aware of statutory child/vulnerable patients health procedures and local guidance.

Clinical Practice Specific

Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and develop person‑centred and holistic plans of clinical care accordingly.

Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate interventions—treatments—for patients with complex needs seeking advice as appropriate.

Prescribe and review medication within personal ability for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence‑based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice.

Work with patients in order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments.

Provide information and advice on prescribed or over‑the‑counter medication on medication regimens, side‑effects and interactions.

Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care and working with our multiple stakeholders to ensure best patient care, ensuring patients receive the right care at the right time.

Support patients and their families to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self‑care.

Assess, identify and refer patients presenting with mental health needs in accordance with the NSF for Mental Health.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Advanced Nurse Practitioner OR HCPC Registered Paramedic
• Educated to degree‑diploma level in Paramedicine or equivalent experience
• Driving Licence

Desirable

• Non‑Medical prescribing

Experience

Essential

• Accountability of own roles and other roles in primary care setting
• Highly developed knowledge of illness and injury presentation
• Clinical governance in primary care setting
• Experience of working with frail and elderly people
• Local and National health policy
• Experience of managing acute illness presentations
• Up to date Professional Development portfolio

Desirable

• Minimum 2 years post‑registration experience in clinical practice

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Healthier South Wirral

Address

Eastham Group Practice

47 Bridle Road

Bromborough

Wirral

Merseyside

CH62 6EE

Employer's website

https://healthiersouthwirralpcn.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)