Advanced Clinical Practitioner | East London NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	East London NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£58,133 - £73,496 0
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, E9 6SR
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	7 Aug 2026
Closing date:	6 Sept 2026

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Summary

We welcome applications from those interested in developing into the role of Advanced Clinical Practitioner. You will initially be employed as a trainee ACP (band 7) and you will be supported through the Trust ACP credentialing program, once all the set elements of the program are completed and signed off, you will automatically progress into Advanced Clinical Practitioner Role (band 8a).

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) within the Psychiatric Liaison Team provides expert mental health assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and care planning for patients presenting with acute mental health needs within acute hospital settings. Working autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team, the ACP delivers timely biopsychosocial assessments, risk assessments, and crisis interventions for individuals attending emergency departments and inpatient wards.

The post holder will utilise advanced clinical skills to support complex decision-making, including assessment of mental capacity, management of psychiatric emergencies, and formulation of appropriate treatment plans. They will work collaboratively with acute hospital staff, community mental health services, primary care, and partner agencies to ensure safe, effective, and patient-centred care.

The ACP will also contribute to service development, clinical leadership, education, and quality improvement initiatives, while promoting evidence-based practice and ensuring compliance with professional, legal, and organisational standards to improve patient outcomes and experience.

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will undertake comprehensive mental health, psychosocial, risk, and capacity assessments for patients presenting to emergency departments and acute hospital wards. The post holder will formulate and implement evidence-based care and treatment plans, provide crisis intervention, and support safe discharge or onward referral where appropriate. They will work autonomously in the management of complex cases, offering specialist advice to acute hospital colleagues and partner agencies. The ACP will contribute to multidisciplinary decision-making, clinical leadership, teaching, supervision, service development, quality improvement, and audit activity, ensuring high standards of patient-centred care and clinical governance are maintained.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Patient Care

• Practice autonomously and self-directed

• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of patients in your care and to ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management and by other staff you are supervising / assessing.

• Prescribe within the sphere of competence.

• Ensure that you remain clinically updated and credible as a practitioner.

Clinical

• Act as an expert practitioner demonstrating advanced knowledge and skills, including the integration of research evidence into practice by expert clinical reasoning and decision-making.

• Assesses, examines, investigates, diagnoses and treats those patients with mental health illness, resulting in the safe management and appropriate admission, referral and/or discharge of patients.

• Make independent clinical decisions and initiatives appropriate invasive and/or non-invasive investigations, care/treatment and technological interventions

• Can plan, order, interpret and act upon the results of tests and investigations.

• Can interpret and act upon other clinical and non-clinical information.

• Prescribed / administers medication as appropriate using independent prescribing qualification or patient group direction.To be able to identify the need for appropriate diagnostic tests and interpret results including laboratory and radiography investigations.

• To carry out advanced physical assessment and independent prescribing in accordance with the Trusts policy to meet clinical needs.

• Demonstrates critical thinking, analyses and interprets highly complex information gained during clinical examination and history taking to diagnose an individual's problem or illness and decide upon an appropriate course of action.

• Ensure that accurate documentation and records of patient care are maintained in a timely manner.

• As an independent prescriber ensure prescriptions meet legislative and best practice requirements and prescribe according to NICE competency framework for prescribers and Trust policies.

• Participate as a Senior Clinician in Older Peoples Health & Social Care Governance Group

Leadership/ Clinical Leadership

• To undertake clinical practice at an advanced level, delivering and participating in the clinical care of patients.

• To act as a role model and expert resource including assisting the development of nursing and including in assisting to develop nursing and advanced practice roles according to service development and evolving models of care.

• To lead by example ensuring that care is compassionate and caring at all times in line with the Trust values.

• To ensure that care provided is evidence based and efficient at all times.

• To promote practice that is dynamic, efficient, innovative and continuously improved in its relevance and responsiveness to the needs of the population.

• Demonstrate responsibility for own learning and performance, including participating in clinical supervision and seeking peer review of own practice and understand why feedback from others is important to help review and prioritise your personal development needs.

• Provides peer support to others in the development of skills and reflection.

• To contribute to the development of initiatives to promote effective patient flow and timely patient discharge, the reduction in health inequalities, patient self-management and integrated working with primary/secondary care colleagues.

• To assist in the assessment and management of risk in line with the Trust standards and alongside the service management team by ensuring adverse incidents are reported, investigated and utilised to develop an open culture of learning from risk and / or incident.

• To regularly participate in clinical supervision and to act as a clinical supervisor to junior staff.To work closely with the Trusts PALS department and where necessary participate in investigating incidents and complaints in line with the Trust policy, procedures and timescales, making recommendations about changes in practice and service that may result.

Education, training & Development

• To Provide Clinical Supervision to Junior staff and Nurses

• Co-Facilitate with Fellow ACP’s, Nurses Forum & Action Learning set across the Older Peoples Pathway

• To Co-ordinate with fellow ACP’s, Student Nurse placements across the Older Peoples pathway working with Teams Mentors and placement leads to ensure students have robust opportunities for learning

• To provide specialist training and development session, opportunities including participating in Older Peoples all staff induction programme

• To participate in formal teaching of student Nurses with University of Bedfordshire

• To lead by example ensuring that care is compassionate and caring at all times in line with the Trust values.

• To ensure that care provided is evidence based and efficient at all times.

• To promote practice that is dynamic, efficient, innovative and continuously improved in its relevance and responsiveness to the needs of the population.

• Provides peer support to others in the development of skills and reflection.

• To regularly participate in clinical supervision and to act as a clinical supervisor to junior staff.

Research & Development

• Suggest areas for research within scope of practice, in partnership with Operational Manager & Clinical Lead, working with Trusts Research Department.

• Identifies areas for improvement & articulates solutions and decisions that impact positively on service delivery.

• Suggest to Managers areas to improve the quality of patient experience by identifying areas for improvement, listening to the voice of service users and carers

• To assist in benchmarking against other services and developing innovative practice and new ways of working which are productive and patient outcome focused.

• Act as a positive role model to colleagues and junior staff.

• Sensitively, confidentially and constructively raise any concerns regarding care delivery, risk or incidents.

Financial and Physical Resources

• Supports the budget holder in the delivery of care within financial constraints and available resources.

• Have a personal duty of care in relation to equipment/safe use of equipment, ensuring best use of resources.

• Ability to travel from location to location within the community

Knowledge and Skills

Knowledge, Training and Experience

• To promote a continuous learning environment for the nursing, medical teams and students ensuring that staff have access to information that enables them to practice safely and effectively.

• To contribute to the development of nursing and medical knowledge, policies and skills.

• To teach and support medical staff, nursing staff, students and newly qualified staff in the clinical setting.

• To contribute to peer review and supervisory processes.

• To undertake mandatory training as required for the role.

• To be aware of one’s own continuous professional development needs and maintain an annual personal development plan.

• To proactively initiate, lead and participate in audit as required and in line with the Trusts audit programme, devising audits and presenting findings as needed.

• To be resilient and practice good self-management in the pursuit of the role demonstrating good time management and self-motivation.

Self-Development

• To undertake delegated projects and management responsibilities as required.

• To develop and maintain effective and appropriate communication systems with staff and colleagues within the Trust.

• To utilise effective leadership styles to promote clinical excellence and optimum patient outcomes

• To be aware of care provision in the wider healthcare community and utilise this knowledge to proactively contribute to service development/improvement

• Network with other ACP’s to provide / receive support and share best practice.

• Support and guide newly qualified ACP’s helping to embed the role.

• To become familiar with finance resource allocation and management, contributing towards cost efficiency programmes and Business cases for expansion.

Communication and Relationships

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Teaching and presentation skills

• Actively promote and maintain positive working relationships with nursing and other professional colleagues to maximise the opportunities and benefits of multi-disciplinary team working.

• Act as an ambassador for their area of practice and the organisation as a whole - has awareness of the impact of their own behaviour and that of others and acts with discretion

• Experience of talking to groups including formal presentation skills

• Good Facilitation skills

• Good interpersonal skills and communication skills

• Good negotiating and influencing skills

This advert closes on Sunday 23 Aug 2026

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