Advanced Clinical PractitionerNHS

Job summary

Selby Town PCN is looking to recruit an enthusiastic, compassionate and motivated ACP to join our welcoming and highly supportive team on a fixed-term contract until the end of this financial year (31/3/2027) to support winter resilience.

This role presents an excellent opportunity for an ACP seeking a flexible and rewarding position within a well-established and award winning PCN who can work alongside partners and team members to help deliver urgent same-day and next-day general practice to our population.

Whether you are looking to complement a portfolio career, return to practice, gain experience within a progressive primary care setting, or simply achieve a healthier work-life balance, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate should be an experienced practitioner who, acting within their professional boundaries and competencies, will provide care to the presenting patient, from initial clinical assessment, through diagnosis, treatment, and an evaluation of care. They will demonstrate safe and effective clinical decision making and critical thinking. They will be a caring and compassionate clinician who puts the needs of their patient at the heart of everything they do.

Please see attached job description for full details of the Advanced Clinical Practitioner role.

Job description

Assess, diagnose, and treat patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis.

Consider the holistic biopsychosocial needs of patients and plan clinical care accordingly.

Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based national and local protocols, and within scope of practice.

Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC or HCPC.

Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies, and procedures.

Deliver care according to NSF, NICE guidelines, and evidence-based care.

Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking, and formal evaluation.

Evaluate patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.

Support and participate in shared learning across the Primary Care Network

Use a structured framework (e.g., root-cause analysis) to manage, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents, and near-miss events.

Act as a clinical leader in the delivery of services ensuring that the needs of the patient are a priority.

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

Support staff development to maximise potential.

Contribute to the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards.

Undertake mentorship for more junior staff, assessing competence against set standards.

Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments (e.g., courses and conferences)

Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate.

Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning.

About us

Selby Town PCN has a proven history of developing a variety of roles within the PCN & in coordinating & improving services for patients. Our locality network is committed to developing a multidisciplinary workforce which it sees as essential in providing an elevated level of care for its population.

The PCN has 4 local practices, Beech Tree, Posterngate, Scott Road and Escrick surgeries serving more than 50,000 patients. This role is employed by Selby Prime Care Ltd, the employing and contracting company for Selby Town PCN, delivering collaborative healthcare services across our four member GP practices. You would work amongst a vibrant multidisciplinary team including GPs, ANPs, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Nurses, HCAs, all supported by superb administration and reception teams.

The core objective of the ACP is to assist practices with the demands over the winter months.