Band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Birmingham is seeking a clinician to lead the Urgent Community Response team. The role requires advanced clinical expertise, the ability to work autonomously, and strong leadership skills. The clinician will provide specialized care and manage referrals, ensuring effective care delivery in the community. Applicants should have experience in urgent care and a passion for integrated community health services.

Qualifications

• Advanced clinical expertise and leadership in urgent care.
• Ability to work autonomously and make clinical decisions.
• Experience in multidisciplinary team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced clinical care and expertise in patient management.
• Lead team meetings and safety huddles.
• Triage and manage referrals appropriately.

Job description

Overview

The Urgent Community Response (UCR) team is a multi-disciplinary team that provides a two-hour urgent response to patients in their own home that are experiencing a crisis. The UCR team works closely with the Care Co-ordination centre and the Virtual Wards to avoid unnecessary hospital admission.

The post holder will provide advanced clinical expertise and leadership to the Urgent Community Response team, Care Coordination Centre (CCC), Virtual Wards, Early Intervention Model and Community Nursing Teams. They will be required to support new ways of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient focused service, and will ensure the safe treatment, referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.

The ACP will autonomously provide highly specialised, evidence-based care within the community as part of the integrated health and social care community team and will demonstrate advanced clinical knowledge and skills in assessment, management and treatment across a range of acute and chronic presentations.

Responsibilities

• 1.Work in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council/Allied Health Professional (AHP) Code of Professional Conduct. The postholder will be responsible for providing advanced clinical care and expertise in care delivery including judgement, discretion and decision making to patients as per individual scope of practice and through the advanced clinical competency framework.
• 2.Provide clinical leadership and expertise (in both telephone triage and managing referrals through the Care Co-ordination Centre).
• 3.Receive and triage referrals via a variety of sources, including direct patient referral.
• 4.Participate and lead team safety huddles, patient reviews and multidisciplinary team meetings.
• 5.Act as a first contact, exercising a high degree of professional autonomy and critical judgment in providing expert advanced clinical assessment, individualised patient care, examination, investigation/diagnostic procedures and diagnosis of patients with undiagnosed and undifferentiated needs.
• Appropriately treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate onward referral or discharge of patients at the end of the care episode. Make direct referrals as appropriate for medical assessment and diagnostic procedures.

Be Part of Our Team

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people\'s homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

Key Relationships

To establish effective working relation with the following:

• · Staff within the professionalgroup
• · Clinical TeamLeaders
• · ServiceManagers
• · Heads of Service/GeneralManagers
• · Clinical and DivisionalDirectors
• · GP›s
• · Local Authoritypartners
• · Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies
• · Care Home Managers
• · Social Care

This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Nov 2025