Bank Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

HCRG Care Group; Marlborough; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wagestream pay feature

Free well-being service 24/7/365

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Bank Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work across BSW localities, providing autonomous ACP services in Community Hospital inpatient settings. You will perform high-level assessments, coordinate investigations, and support discharge planning while leading a multidisciplinary team.

The role requires post‑registration experience at Band 7/8a level, an independent prescriber qualification, and a postgraduate nursing specialty.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with advanced practice registration.
• Band 7 or 8a level experience in community/acute nursing.
• Registered Independent Non Medical Prescriber.
• Leadership qualification or training.

Responsibilities

• Deliver autonomous Advanced Clinical Practitioner services in community inpatient settings.
• Conduct high-level assessments, diagnose, initiate treatments and coordinate investigations.
• Provide professional leadership to nurses and multidisciplinary teams.
• Support safe discharge and maintain information governance.
• Drive quality improvement through audits and learning.

Skills

Leadership

Budget management

Clinical supervision

Audit & research

Independent prescriber

Education

NMC registration (Advanced Practice)

Postgraduate Nursing qualification (Community/Acute)

Job description

As an Bank Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team working across our BSW (Bath, Bristol Swindon & Wiltshire) localities.

£32.15 an hour.

• Self-booking and access to all bank shifts! Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
• Request a Duty – Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
• HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream – which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
• Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
• Opportunities to work in different areas and various different services to gain new knowledge and experience
• Access to our Strive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
• Free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
• Free statutory and mandatory training, as well as access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills and in-house opportunities continuing your professional development
• Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
• Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job introduction

We have an exciting opportunity to join our teamworking across our BSW (Bath, Bristol Swindon & Wiltshire) localities. l as a Bank Advanced Clinical Practitioner, set within the tranquil woodlands of Wiltshire. We’re seeking an ACP who is passionate about delivering exceptional care and making a genuine difference to patients within our Community Hospitals Inpatient setting.

Main Responsibilities

• Deliver an autonomous Advanced Clinical Practitioner service in Community Hospital inpatient settings aligned with national and organisational standards.
• Conduct high‑level assessments to diagnose, initiate treatments, arrange investigations, and coordinate care with minimal delay.
• Ensure patient‑centred decision‑making, respecting patient preferences for current and future care.
• Agree roles, actions and expected outcomes with patients, carers and professionals, referring appropriately.
• Demonstrate positive leadership, specialist clinical knowledge and adherence to NMC professional standards.
• Proactively manage clinical, performance, and staffing issues.
• Avoid unnecessary patient transfers to secondary acute care where appropriate.
• Provide professional leadership to nurses and multidisciplinary team members, including social care staff.
• Work with the patient’s Community Team Key Worker to support safe discharge.
• Monitor care delivery to ensure it remains patient‑centred.
• Ensure effective resource use, support budget management, and attend review meetings with the Team Leader.
• Re‑prioritise throughout the day and respond promptly to staff issues, complaints, safeguarding concerns and incidents, ensuring investigation and shared learning.
• Use patient feedback, incident learning and complaints to improve pathways and patient experience.
• Support and implement changes aligned with national and organisational guidance (e.g., NICE, NSF).
• Maintain responsibility for Information Governance, health, safety and security compliance.
• Oversee clinical audits, ensuring recommendations are implemented into everyday practice.
• Build effective relationships with internal teams such as specialist nurses, community nursing, therapies and primary care.
• Promote a learning environment that supports skill‑sharing and development across all disciplines.
• Ensure staff complete mandatory training and take part in annual appraisals.
• Ensure participation in clinical supervision, peer review, mid‑year and annual appraisals to support competency and revalidation.
• Implement work‑based learning to develop a skilled, forward‑thinking and motivated nursing service.
• Identify and advise on audit, research and innovation topics; ensure findings are shared and acted upon.
• Monitor clinical and managerial performance against targets, contributing to risk assessments and required reports.
• Organise and oversee professional, business, clinical and quality meetings aligned with national and local priorities.
• Provide patients, families and carers with tailored information and health advice, including early warning signs and beneficial lifestyle changes.
• Provide cover for peer ACPs as needed.

The Ideal Candidate

• Registered Nurse, current registration with the NMCMSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or Advanced Nurse Practitioner
• Currently working at Band 7 or 8a level.
• Relevant post graduate Community Nursing/Acute Nursing speciality qualification/ training
• Registered Independent Non Medical Prescriber
• Leadership qualification/ training
• Experience
• Minimum of 5 years post registration experience, including at least 2 years working in a supervisory / managerial capacity at minimum band 6 level within a community/acute nursing setting
• Evidence of enhanced clinical practice at Masters level in relevant speciality
• Experience of effective budget and resource management
• Initiating research and / or audit and implementing changes / improvements in practice
• Experience of initiating, managing and evaluating change
• Experience of giving presentations to a wide audience
• Knowledge
• In depth knowledge and understanding of current health and social care policy, legislation, ethical practice, Clinical Governance and CQC requirements
• High levels of understanding of nursing body requirements including The NMC Code, revalidation, nursing standards, peer review and clinical supervision
• Good knowledge of national guidelines e.g. NICE and NSF’s
• Knowledge of research and current evidence-based practice
• High levels of knowledge, understanding and experience of multi-disciplinary working and inter-professional practice
• Skills
• Demonstrable experience of working across organisational boundaries and teams
• Demonstrates ability to think at a strategic level
• Experience of transformational leadership
• Able to plan, organise and re-prioritise own work under pressure
• Demonstrates initiative and good interpersonal skills
• Excellent analytical and reflection skills
• Able to influence, negotiate and motivate others
• Able to write and present complex case reports business cases
• Advanced keyboard, IT skills including the use of emails
• Additional requirements:
• Enthusiastic, assertive and self motivated
• Flexible and able to respond to changing priorities
• Reliable, respectful and approachable
• Car driver and able to travel across DGSS
• Desirable
• Management qualification
• Post Registration Teaching Qualification
• Experience of presentations outside of own organisation
• Experience of teaching on higher educational award courses

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.