Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Wythenshawe; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in England is seeking a skilled Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join their Urgent and Emergency Care Clinical Division. This integral role involves providing expert clinical leadership, managing emergency presentations, and mentoring a growing team of ACPs and Emergency Nurse Practitioners. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in clinical practice and a passion for improving patient care and service innovation. Competitive salary offered.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse Midwife or AHP required.
• Experience leading and managing teams is essential.
• Understanding of life support interventions at expert level needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical delivery of care across ED and UTCs.
• Provide high-level assessment and treatment for emergency presentations.
• Collaborate with clinical and operational leaders for service innovation.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Excellence

Patient-centered care

Education

Master's Degree in relevant specialty

Non-Medical Prescriber

Job description

Overview

Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) Urgent and Emergency Care Clinical Division WTWA. The closing date is 22 September 2025.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a skilled and passionate Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join the Urgent and Emergency Care Clinical Division WTWA. This senior clinical role is integral to the ongoing transformation of urgent and emergency services, providing expert clinical leadership and supporting high standards of care delivery across our Adult and Paediatric Emergency Department (ED) and Urgent Treatment Centers (UTC). As a Lead ACP, you will work autonomously at an advanced clinical level, managing patients across the full spectrum of undifferentiated emergency presentations. You will also provide visible clinical leadership, mentoring and developing a growing team of ACPs, Trainee ACPs and Emergency Nurse Practitioners (EP), ensuring excellence in clinical practice, education, and service innovation. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated ACP to influence strategic service development, enhance patient experience, and support safe, effective urgent care pathways.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the clinical delivery of care within the Urgent and Emergency Care, across the Adult and Paediatric ED and UTCs.
• Provide high-level assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and discharge planning for a broad range of emergency presentations.
• Lead the supervision, development, and appraisal of ACPs and Trainee ACPs and ENPs supporting workforce growth and clinical excellence.
• Collaborate with senior clinical, operational, and education leaders to drive quality improvement and service innovation.
• Contribute to governance activities, including audit, incident review, and clinical effectiveness initiatives.
• Champion an open honest culture of compassionate, patient-centered care in line with Trust values.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of over £3bn and operates at a scale beyond many NHS Trusts. We are creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is extraordinary.

We have created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness and driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We’re also embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. To be well prepared to apply, please read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides details about the Trust, our benefits and how we care for you as you care for others. It also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse Midwife or AHP
• Registration with either the NMC or HCPC
• Non-Medical Prescriber
• Master's Degree - evidencing all 4 pillars of advanced practice in relevant specialty/subject

Experience

• Experience of leading and managing teams/individuals
• Experience of audit/service improvement projects
• Experience of leading or implementing research in the clinical environment
• Experience of using/embedding evidence-based practice
• Leadership training
• Journal publication and conference presentation experience

Knowledge

• Understanding of the professional code of conduct and the duties of the ACP
• Understanding of life support interventions and treatments at expert level
• Advanced Life Support
• Safeguarding adults and children
• Knowledge of common conditions leading to critical illness

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.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

£64,455 to £74,896 a year, per annum, pro rata