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Job Overview

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) is a highly skilled, autonomous clinician who plays a pivotal role in delivering expert, person-centred care across professional boundaries. This cutting-edge role integrates traditional medical responsibilities with advanced clinical practice, acting as a role model of excellence in holistic, evidence-based care delivery.

Operating at an advanced level of practice, the ACP independently assesses, diagnoses, treats, and manages a wide range of acute and chronic conditions. The post holder utilises advanced clinical reasoning and critical thinking to make safe and effective decisions, working within established local and national clinical guidelines and protocols.

In addition to direct patient care, the ACP is instrumental in service development and quality improvement. They contribute significantly to the leadership, education, and development of the wider multi-professional team—including nursing, midwifery, AHPs, and medical colleagues—while demonstrating competence across the Four Pillars of Advanced Practice: Clinical Practice, Leadership and Management, Education, and Research.

This role offers an opportunity to shape and advance interprofessional clinical practice while ensuring the highest standards of patient outcomes.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be a team player who is flexible and adaptable to the needs of the people who access our services.

You will be expected to work across all four Advanced Practice Pillars.

Clinically working independently at an advanced level in the direct delivery of high-quality care making critical clinical decisions based on varied skills and assessment techniques.

Provide clinical leadership and support across the entire inpatient MDT

Supporting colleagues to achieve training and development requirements. Ensuring that you are maintaining your own portfolio of learning in accordance with the national multi-professional framework for Advanced Practice.

Ensure consistent high-quality care through audit and research programs.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Clinical Practice

• Deliver expert clinical care to patients, prioritising health needs and intervening appropriately.
• Exercise advanced clinical reasoning and decision-making to assess, diagnose, treat, and manage complex, acute, undifferentiated, and chronic presentations.
• Provide high-level clinical skills and practice based on specialist knowledge at academic level 7.
• Undertake comprehensive clinical examinations and initiate appropriate investigations and treatments.
• Request and interpret diagnostic tests to inform clinical management.
• Maintain professional and legal accountability in line with Trust policies and regulatory standards.
• Ensure informed consent is obtained before treatments or procedures.
• Independently manage a caseload and supervise junior team members.
• Recognise and escalate potential risks to patient safety and contribute to maintaining a safe clinical environment.
• Support safe prescribing practices, including prescribing/de-prescribing in accordance with relevant legislation and Trust policies (where applicable).
• Rapidly assess and continuously evaluate patient conditions, modifying care plans as necessary.
• Make decisions to refer, discharge, or transition care as appropriate.
• Educate and involve patients and carers in care planning and decision-making.
• Ensure accurate and timely documentation in patient records, including digital systems.
• Contribute to the development of patient pathways to improve flow and care continuity.
  
  

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Unrestricted registration as a nurse/midwife/AHP
• Significant clinical experience, at least 5 years experience post registration, 2 years experience in specialty
• Evidence of the successful development and implementation of cultural change to drive improvement. Performance
• Ability to work as a team, both within teams internally and as an accomplished participant in cross agency teams
• Independent Non Medical Prescriber
• Evidence of clinical supervision experience
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Leadership qualification
  
  

Education, Qualifications And Training

Essential criteria

• Masters degree in Advanced Practice or equivalent quaification
• Unrestricted registration as a nurse/midwife/AHP
• Independent Non medical prescriber
• Evidence of continual professional development
• Recognised coaching or mentoring qualification or similar experience
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Leadership qualification
• Advanced life support provider course
• Management and Leadership experience
• Red dot course
• cannulation
• venepuncture
  
  

Skills, Abilities And Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Evidence of Advanced clinical examination skills
• Evidence of advanced diagnostic skills
• Evidence of ability to work and lead autonomously at advanced practice level
• Evidence of the ability to manage pateints with complex needs
• Evidence in initiating/evaluating change within a variety of clinical situations
• Ability to recognise and analyse complex situations and take appropriate actions
• Ability to manage and priorities own workload and work independently
• Strong verbal and written communications skills with the ability to engage other members of the team
• Innovative with the ability to "think differently" and challenge current behaviours and mindsets
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Ability to work across boundaries
  
  

Values

Essential criteria

• Communicates openly, honestly and professionally and actively promotes team working and building strong relationships
• Patients are always first, drives service improvements. Strong self awareness with a desire to grow
• Treats all with compassion and kindness, Ensures everyone feels valued
• Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take initiatives
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Value base care training
  
  

Special circumstance

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel to all Trust sites
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Ability to work across boundaries
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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