Band 8a Advance Nurse Practitioner (ACP) Full or Part Trained

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Solihull is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to deliver patient-centred care and lead clinical governance. The role involves comprehensive assessments, diagnosis, and treatment within a supportive team. Candidates should have strong leadership skills and advanced clinical expertise. This position offers a dynamic work environment with a focus on enhancing patient outcomes.

Benefits

Inclusive workplace culture

Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in advanced clinical practice.
• Ability to manage a caseload of patients autonomously.
• Strong leadership and governance skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality, patient-centred care.
• Conduct clinical assessments, diagnosis, and treatment.
• Lead service development and quality initiatives.

Skills

Advanced clinical assessment

Patient care

Decision-making skills

Leadership

Education

Relevant clinical qualifications

Job description

Overview

The post holder will demonstrate advanced expertise within the Urgent Community Response (UCR) Service, providing advice, education, and support to staff, patients, families, and carers. The UCR team delivers rapid holistic assessments and interventions within two hours of referral, supporting individuals at risk of hospital admission to remain safely at home, recover, and re-engage with their daily lives.

Professional Role

Working as an autonomous Advanced Clinical Practitioner, the post holder will provide high-quality, patient-centred care, including advanced assessment, clinical examination, diagnosis, and treatment, within an agreed scope of practice. This role will ensure safe management, referral, and discharge of patients with undifferentiated or undiagnosed presentations, while promoting efficiency and patient-focused service delivery.

Leadership and Governance

The post holder will take a leadership role in developing clinical practice and standards of care within the service, including the creation and implementation of policies, protocols, and guidelines in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues. They will also be expected to comply with all aspects of ACP governance standards and procedures.

Professional Time Allocation

This role will consist of a 90% clinical component and 10% dedicated to professional development activities, including appraisal, clinical audit, teaching, research, and self-directed learning.

Main duties of the job

• Clinical: Work autonomously as an advanced practitioner within the specialty, managing a caseload of patients delivering individualised direct patient care with educational support and clinical supervision as identified within the ACP governance standard and procedure document
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of their broadened level of responsibility and autonomy and limits of own competence and professional scope of practice.
• Direct responsibility for assessment, examination, investigation and diagnosis of patients within their area of work.
• Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning to appropriately treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.
• Work in a variety of areas as job plan requires including in multidisciplinary clinics, participate in ward rounds, patient reviews and multidisciplinary team meetings
• Lead and actively participate in service/ departmental projects, quality initiatives and statutory accreditation processes. This will include the setting and monitoring of clinical standards of care.
• Demonstrate effective leadership skills, supporting the senior management team (Nurse Consultant/ Lead ACP/ Matron/ Clinical Director) in service development and lead as delegated on the implementation of any of these changes.

Equality and Diversity

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.