Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust; Park Central; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

Flexible working

Structured learning and development

Staff benefits and wellbeing

Job summary

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust is recruiting a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the Community Hospitals Team. This rotational post across five sites offers development towards autonomous clinical practice with advanced assessment, planning and management for sub-acute and rehabilitation patients, including stroke and palliative care.

The role is part-time (30 hours per week over three days) with on‑site duties.

Qualifications

• Post-registration experience in clinical areas
• Experience across pillars: Clinical Practice, Leadership, Education and Research
• Ability to work in a team with medical, nursing and therapy colleagues

Responsibilities

• Train on the job on wards to gain competence to autonomously assess patient needs
• Admit, assess, diagnose, request investigations and initiate treatments with independent prescribing where appropriate
• Coordinate safe discharge and support improvements to standards of care
• Undertake advanced clinical assessment and contribute to clinical governance and teaching
• Support flexible and collaborative service development across community hospitals

Skills

Clinical assessment

Advanced clinical practice

Leadership

Communication in English

Education

Nursing/ Allied Health registration

MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice (or enrolled)

Job description

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The closing date is 24 November 2026

This is a rare opportunity to join our Community Hospitals Team as a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner.

We are looking to recruit a compassionate and dynamic Trainee Advanced Practitioner to join our team of experienced APs working in a rotational post across 5 Community Hospitals. We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated clinician to help us develop this AP led servicedelivering medical care for patients from sub-acute care to general rehabilitation, and including specialist stroke services, palliative care and fractured neck of femur rehabilitation.

This diverse clinical case mix requires dedicated practitioners with comprehensive assessment and medical management skills to deliver safe effective care. We are building a team for the future and recognise the benefits of APs leading patient assessment, management and interventional therapies, supported by a team of GP's.

Applicants must read the attached guidance notes before submitting your application for full understanding of Trust requirements.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will train on the job on our wards to gain competence to autonomously to admit and assess individual patient needs, determine a differential diagnosis, request investigations, and initiate appropriate holistic, research-based treatments, within a patient centred clinical management plan, to include independent prescribing. They will be expected to exercise advanced clinical expertise, and high levels of decision making in clinical care, whilst working closely with Medical, Nursing and Therapy teams to ensure patients receive appropriate holistic care, and co-ordinate a safe discharge with minimal avoidable delays. Additional responsibilities will include monitoring and leading on improvements to standards of care through, supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence-based practice, facilitation of learning through teaching and supporting professional colleagues, and demonstrate enhanced professional leadership skills.

This is a part time position of 30 hours per week over 3 days.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer;

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

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Job responsibilities

Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on day to day basis.

Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.

Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients.

Work with a degree of professional autonomy appropriate to level of training and begin to make critical/complex decisions with the support of qualified advanced clinical practitioners and the medical team

Undertake advanced clinical assessment appropriate to level of training of patients who have complex and or chronic disease presentations, including screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness, making a differential diagnosis, prescribing treatments as an independent non-medical prescriber, initiating and reviewing treatment plans and discharging patients.

Work collaboratively and cooperatively with clinical colleagues to develop services and quality of care delivered by providing clinical knowledge and skills and undertaking advanced clinical practice with an appropriate level of supervision

Aim to improve patient outcomes through improving accessibility to services and improving quality, enabling safe and timely diagnostics, treatment and transfer where appropriate

Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model.

Work as an effective and responsible member of the team, supporting others and exploring mechanisms to develop new ways of working and improved clinical continuity.

Note As this is a training post the post holder must:

Have a range of post registration experience that spans across the four pillars of the Advanced Clinical Practitioner Role and include clinical experience within the area of speciality they are applying to;

Be willing to undertake and complete the MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice upon entry into the post and meet the Higher Education Institute entry requirements to achieve this;

Undertake a period of full or partial supervised practice that will support thecompletion of clinical competencies relevant to the trainee ACP role.

For full details of the duties and criteria please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse Level 1/Allied Health Professional/Paramedic/ Pharmacist
• Undertaking MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or have the experience and qualifications to undertake MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
• Evidence of a portfolio of knowledge, skills and professional development
• Mentorship or teaching qualification/work place assessor
• Qualifications in long term conditions
• Leadership course

Experience

• Demonstrable post graduate experience in more than one clinical area including that which applying to
• Be able to demonstrate some experience in each of the four pillars of the Advanced Clinical Practitioner role - Clinical Practice, Leadership, and Management, Education and Research
• Experience of working with people with long term illness and/or frailty/ older people
• Clinical experience of caring for people with cognitive impairment

Knowledge

• Extended and developing advanced clinical skills and knowledge base
• Understanding of relevant legislation and guidance relating to clinical area
• Understanding of professional and current issues in relevant clinical area
• Knowledge of clinical governance agenda

Additional Criteria

• Able to work flexibly
• Ability to influence and negotiate
• Able to meet the travel requirements of the role

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
• Clinical leadership skills
• High level problem solving skills
• Strong clinical assessment and clinical intervention skills
• Computer and keyboard skills at intermediate level or above

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.

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

£49,387 to £56,515 a yearpro rata per annum