Qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner – General Surgery

Leeds Teaching Hospitals Nhs Trust; Ledston; Sur place; GBP 58 000 - 65 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the Emergency Surgery team at St James's University Hospital. You will assess and manage patients with acute surgical needs, formulate decisions, and deliver safe, personalised care within a dynamic MDT.

You will lead on professional practice, support nursing and medical colleagues, and contribute to audit and research to improve patient flow and outcomes across the Surgical Division.

Qualifications

• Autonomous professional working within a self-directed framework.
• Responsible for a defined patient caseload with an accurate care plan.
• Initiate pharmacological intervention and employ non-medical prescribing within a multidisciplinary team.
• Use clinical judgment to manage complex care and share learning to improve services.

Responsabilités

• Assess and manage patients with acute surgical presentations.
• Formulate clinical decisions and provide safe, personalised care.
• Lead and influence nursing, medical and surgical colleagues.
• Contribute to audit, research and quality improvement initiatives.
• Support patient flow and service delivery across the Surgical Division.
• Engage in ongoing education and mentorship within the team.

Connaissances

Autonomous practice

Caseload management

Non-medical prescribing

Clinical decision-making

Cross-boundary collaboration

Research awareness

Quality improvement

Audit and reflection

Formation

MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice

Description du poste

Job reference: 002462
Salary: Band 8a - £57,528-£64,750
Closing date: 13/11/2026
Department: Medical Staff - General Surgery SJH
Location: St James's University Hospital
Employment type: Permanent
Division: Abdominal Medicine and Surgery CSU
Hours Per Week: 37.5

Job Summary

This Advanced Clinical Practitioner role sits within the Leeds Institute of Emergency Surgery at St James's Hospital, part of Leeds Teaching Hospitals, one of the largest acute Trusts in the UK. You will be at the forefront of emergency surgical care, assessing and managing patients with acute presentations, formulating clinical decisions, and delivering safe, personalised care. Working as part of a dynamic, multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in patient flow and service delivery across the Surgical Division, while also contributing to audit, research, and quality improvement initiatives that shape and enhance our services.

We are looking for a motivated ACP with a completed MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice and a strong background in surgical care, who is confident, organised, and able to work autonomously within a fast-paced environment. You will bring excellent clinical reasoning, leadership, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to support and influence nursing, medical, and surgical colleagues. In return, you'll gain the opportunity to develop within a progressive, supportive team that values innovation, continuous learning, and high standards of patient care.

Why you should join our Team

Joining the Emergency General Surgery (EGS) team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals offers the opportunity to work within a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment that sits at the heart of acute surgical care. Our team manages a diverse range of urgent and complex surgical presentations, providing Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) with continuous opportunities to develop and apply advanced decision-making, procedural skills, and leadership in patient care. You'll be part of a supportive multidisciplinary team that values open communication, shared learning, and professional growth, with strong links to surgical, medical, and diagnostic services across the Trust.

What makes our team special is its balance of high clinical standards and genuine team spirit. We foster a culture where ACPs are respected as key decision-makers, encouraged to expand their scope of practice, and supported through ongoing education and mentorship. The work is challenging but rewarding, with a clear impact on patient outcomes and flow through the hospital. If you're looking for a role where you can make a real difference, continue to grow, and be part of a motivated and forward-thinking team, EGS at Leeds Teaching Hospitals is an excellent place to build your career.

What you will bring to the role

• Practice as an autonomous professional in a self-directed manner, with confidence, authority and expertise, undertaking comprehensive range of clinical procedures.
• Have direct responsibility for patient caseload, ensuring all patients have an accurate plan of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporate the issues and recommendations made.
• Initiate pharmacological intervention, using non-medical prescribing and working within the multidisciplinary team.
• Use professional judgement in managing complex and unpredictable care events and capture the learning from these experiences to improve patient care and service delivery.
• Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries and proactively develop and sustain new partnerships and networks to influence and improve health, outcomes and healthcare delivery systems.
• Develop practice appropriate to patient and service need through understanding the implications of new emergency research, technology, health inequalities and professional trends and developments.
• Be involved proactively in developing strategies and undertaking activities that monitor and improve the quality of healthcare and the effectiveness of their own and others’ practice.
• Continually evaluate and audit own practice and that of others at individual and systems levels, selecting and applying valid and reliable approaches and methods which are appropriate to needs and context, and acting on the findings.

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our Trust values

The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.

We are….

• Responsible
• Open and Honest
• One Team
• Kind

Our Trust priorities

Our purpose:

Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time

Our priorities:

• People
• Improvement and Innovation
• Partnerships
• Outcomes

Sponsorship Eligibility

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.