Trainee / Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Wye Valley; Hereford; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Wye Valley NHS Trust Herefordshire is seeking a Trainee / Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the Urgent Community Response and Virtual Wards teams. The role covers home-based assessment and management of patients with complex conditions, aiming to prevent hospital admissions.

Working patterns span 8am–8pm across 7 days with opportunities across frailty wards and community hospitals. Applicants should hold NMC/HCPC registration and pursue MSc Advanced Practice; independent prescribing is

Qualifications

• Office-agnostic professional registration and advanced practice competencies.
• Postgraduate qualification requirements for ACP/advanced clinical roles.
• Ability to complete or undertake MSc via apprenticeship pathway.

Responsibilities

• Practice as highly specialist clinician for complex health conditions at home.
• Offer holistic assessment and treatment to maximise wellbeing and reduce hospital visits.
• Work to full scope of practice to achieve optimal outcomes.
• Support CPD and competencies relevant to the field.
• Provide clinical triage and assessment support for Urgent Community Response and Virtual Wards.

Skills

Community care

Clinical planning

Organisational skills

Specialist practice

Education

NMC/HCPC registration

Masters in Advanced Clinical Practice / Health Assessment

MSc Advanced Practice

Independent Prescriber

Teaching / Assessment & mentoring qualification

Job description

Trainee / Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Band 6 - 8a (Indicative)

Main area IC Grade Band 6 - 8a (Indicative) Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week Job ref 229-IC-8315054

Site Nelson House, Hereford Town Herefordshire Salary Band 6-8a Dependant on experience and Level 7 study on ACP MSc. Closing 25/10/2026 23:59

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Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an ACP to join our team in beautiful Herefordshire.

We are looking for an ACP to work mainly within our Urgent Community Response (UCR) team with frequent work on our Virtual Wards and Complex Long Term Conditions services. There may also be the opportunity to work flexibly across our frailty wards in our community hospitals too.

In our community teams, we support people in their own homes (including residential care) bringing healthcare they need to them, offering holistic assessment /interventions, working closely with the wider community teams to ensure the person in our care has a smooth journey through our services, receiving the high quality health care that we all want for ourselves and our families.

Working patterns will be between 8am and 8pm over 7 days per week. You will be responsible for managing patients in their own homes to help avoid hospital admission.

The role will primarily be working in our UCR/ Virtual Wards teams but there will be need to cover the Complex Long Term Conditions ACP service and some opportunity to work with our Community Hospitals also.

Band 6-8a dependant on experience (preference for candidate who already holds MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice and has experience in the field. (Consideration will be given for the right candidate with extensive experience relevant to our speciality, to complete the MSc via an apprentice/training pathway within our team).

Main duties of the job

To practice as highly specialist clinician for patients with complex health conditions and/or at risk of imminent hospital admission. To offer holistic assessment and treatment for patients in their own home (whenever appropriate) to maximise health and wellbeing and minimise reliance on in-patient services and primary care physicians.

You will use your core skills to work to the full scope of our practice to ensure the most effective treatment and possible outcomes possible.

There will be ongoing support for CPD and acquiring competencies relevant to the field.

We support the daily function of the Urgent Community Response and Virtual Wards services, offering clinical support on triage of referrals and clinical assessments to our colleagues as required.

We work closely as a team to ensure the multiple facets of our role can be undertaken with a supportive and flexible dynamic and to maintain highly specialist clinical knowledge and skills.

Our dynamic team strive for excellence in all areas of work across the 4 pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice, sharing an ethos of lifelong learning, holistic patient care, team working and professionalism.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

• Degree Level education, NMC or HCPC registered
• Masters diploma in Advanced Clinical Practice/Health Assessment or equivalent post-graduate study Level 7*
• MSc Advanced Practice/ willingness to complete MSc Advanced Practice*
• Independent Prescriber* (or PGD qualification for Professions without prescribing within professional competencies)
• Teaching/ Assessment and mentoring qualification

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Demonstrable clinical skills in Community working
• Advanced knowledge of the range of presentations, diagnoses & current management options within the speciality area
• Evidence of planning & organisational skills
• Completion/ working towards/willingness to complete speciality portfolio (where required and if indicated nationally).

Experience

• Significant relevant post-registration experience within the speciality
• Competent in the planning and managing of complete clinical episodes of care for all patients; working autonomously
• Experience of teaching at informal and formal level.
• Able to role model and lead whilst working independently and within a team.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.