Senior Advanced Practitioner (Band 8B)

Hcrg Care Group; Bath; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

My Reward Hub discounts

Wages as you earn

Wellbeing resources

Learning & development support

Innovation funding

Job summary

HCRG Care Group in Bath is seeking a Senior Advanced Practitioner (Band 8b) to join our team. The role offers access to exclusive rewards and benefits, including NHS Pension and Agenda for Change terms, career development, and flexible development opportunities.

The post focuses on autonomous clinical practice, leading complex decisions, and driving improvement across services with strong governance and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Qualifications

• Registered healthcare professional
• Significant autonomous advanced practice experience
• Leadership and service improvement experience
• Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours.

Responsibilities

• Deliver autonomous, expert clinical practice for complex frailty and long-term conditions.
• Lead complex clinical decision-making and multidisciplinary working.
• Support admission avoidance, rehabilitation and discharge planning.
• Provide professional leadership and visible expert practice within multidisciplinary teams.
• Lead quality improvement, service redesign and pathway development projects.
• Support governance, clinical effectiveness and implementation of evidence-based practice.
• Provide supervision, coaching and development for ACPs and trainees.
• Contribute to research, audit and innovation activity.

Skills

Leadership

Autonomous practice

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Clinical decision-making

Quality improvement

Governance & evidence-based practice

Education

MSc Advanced Clinical Practice

Independent Prescriber qualification

Job description

Job summary

As a Senior Advanced Practitioner (Band 8b) you will be part of our valued team in our Bath Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 8b AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing, from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care, backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

Main Responsibilities

• Deliver highly autonomous, expert clinical practice for patients with complex frailty and long-term conditions.
• Lead complex clinical decision-making and multidisciplinary working.
• Support admission avoidance, rehabilitation and discharge planning.
• Provide professional leadership and visible expert practice within multidisciplinary teams.
• Lead quality improvement, service redesign and pathway development projects.
• Support governance, clinical effectiveness and implementation of evidence-based practice.
• Provide supervision, coaching and development for ACPs and trainee practitioners.
• Contribute to research, audit and innovation activity.

Essential

• Registered healthcare professional
• MSc Advanced Clinical Practice, or equivalent
• Independent Prescriber qualification
• Significant autonomous advanced practice experience
• Leadership and service improvement experience
• Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours.

Desirable

• Experience of non-medical prescribing within a frailty, community or long-term conditions setting
• Teaching, mentorship or clinical supervision qualification (e.g. PGCert in Education or equivalent)
• Evidence of leading or contributing to audit, research or service improvement projects
• Experience of working across multi-agency or multidisciplinary community settings

Other requirements:

Willingness to work flexibly across Bath, Chippenham and Swindon.

Why join us?

• Brand-new Band 8b role
• Full-time and part-time opportunities
• Multiple locations across BSW
• Developmental support from experienced Consultant Practitioners and Advance Practice Lead
• Protected non-clinical development time

Working pattern:

Full-time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm.

Closing date:

09 November 2026

Contact:

Donna Little, [e-mail]. Recruitment Advisor: Louise Ledward on 07884 659608 or [e-mail]

HCRG Care Group is committed to equal opportunities and is a Disability Confident Committed company. Applicants will be subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.