Advanced Clinical PractitionerNHS
Job summary
We are looking for an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our friendly team. We are an Equal Opportunities Employer with a practice list size of approx 16000 patients and are based across 2 sites.
Full-time or Part-time considered.
Salary: Dependant on Experience
Closing date 23/08/2026- Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and we reserve the right to close the vacancy before the closing date.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide expert, autonomous clinical care within a busy and supportive general practice, managing patients with a broad range of acute, urgent and long-term conditions. Working as an integral member of our multidisciplinary team, you will assess, diagnose, treat and, where appropriate, prescribe independently, ensuring patients receive timely, high-quality care.
You will play a key role in improving access to primary care by managing your own clinical workload, making evidence-based decisions and referring patients appropriately when required. In addition to direct patient care, you will contribute to health promotion, preventative care, clinical governance, quality improvement initiatives and service development.
Working closely with GPs, Practice Nurses, Clinical Pharmacists, First Contact Practitioners and other healthcare professionals, you will help deliver safe, effective and person-centred care while supporting the ongoing development of our clinical services.
We are looking for an experienced, compassionate and motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner who enjoys working both independently and collaboratively and is committed to delivering excellent patient care, continuous learning and service improvement within a forward-thinking primary care team.
Job description
We operate a Total Triage system at the practice.
The ACP will make professionally autonomous decisions for which he/she is accountable.
Provide a point of contact within the Practice for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems, making use of skills in history taking, physical examination, problem-solving and clinical decision-making, to establish a diagnosis and management plan
Instigate necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports
Where the post-holder is an independent prescriber: to prescribe safe, effective and appropriate medication as defined by current legislative framework
Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care
Offer a holistic service to patients and their families, developing where appropriate an ongoing plan of care/support, with an emphasis on prevention and self-care
Promote health and wellbeing through the use of health promotion, health education, screening and therapeutic communication skills
Refer patients directly to other services/agencies as appropriate
Work with the Practice lead in developing and delivering specialist primary care services, such as long-term disease management (Diabetes, Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Hypertension)
Work with nursing, medical and health care assistant colleagues to ensure that National Service Frameworks are being delivered
Work with multi-disciplinary teams within the Practice and across the wider partnership, to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care
Contribute to the Practice achieving its quality targets to sustain the high standards of patient care and service delivery
Participate in identification of community health needs and develop patient/family-centred strategies to address them
Help develop and set up new patient services and participate in initiatives to improve existing patient services
Be aware of and contribute to planning and delivery of Practice-based commissioning
B. Teaching and Mentoring Role:
The post-holder will:
Promote a learning environment for patients, nurses and other health professionals
Contribute to the planning and implementation of the teaching for existing staff, such as medical students, NP students, GP registrars, Health Care Assistants, within the Practice
C. Professional Role:
The post-holder will:
Promote evidence-based practice through the use of the latest research-based guidelines and the development of practice-based research
Monitor the effectiveness of their own clinical practice through the quality assurance strategies such as the use of audit and peer review
Maintain their professional registration
Participate in continuing professional development opportunities to ensure that up-to-date evidence-based knowledge and competence in all aspects of the role is maintained
Record accurate consultation data in patients' records in accordance with the latest guidance and other pertinent standards
-Keep up-to-date with pertinent health-related policy and work with the Practice team to consider the impact and strategies for implementation
Personal/Professional Development
In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for PREP are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:
-Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development and working towards annual appraisals and revalidation
-Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
About us
We are a GP practice with a multi skilled clinical team that works over two sites. We provide services to around 15600 registered patients.
We are committed to providing high-quality care for all patients, while embracing innovative approaches to service delivery through new ways of working and digital transformation.
We are a training practice committed to investing in clinicians of the future.
Our clinical team is diverse including GPs, Pharmacists, Practice Nurses, HCAs, Paramedic, also working closely with a range of additional roles including Health and Wellbeing Coach, Care Co-ordinator, First Contact Physiotherapists via Notts West PCN.