Senior Advanced Practitioner (Band 8b) - Bath


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£66,582 to £77,368 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Bath, BA2 5RP
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	16 Oct 2026
Closing date:	9 Nov 2026

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Summary

Main Responsibilities Deliver highly autonomous, expert clinical practice for patients with complex frailty and long-term conditions. Lead complex clinical decision-making and multidisciplinary working. Support admission avoidance, rehabilitation and discharge planning. Provide professional leadership and visible expert practice within multidisciplinary teams. Lead quality improvement, service redesign and pathway development projects. Support governance, clinical effectiveness and implementation of evidence-based practice. Provide supervision, coaching and development for ACPs and trainee practitioners. Contribute to research, audit and innovation activity. WORKING FOR OUR ORGANISATION This is an exciting time to join our organisation. We are investing significantly in Advanced Practice and creating opportunities for talented clinicians to build long-term careers within community healthcare. A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description. The Ideal Candidate Essential Registered healthcare professional MSc Advanced Clinical Practice, or equivalent Independent Prescriber qualification Significant autonomous advanced practice experience Leadership and service improvement experience Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours. Desirable Experience of non-medical prescribing within a frailty, community or long-term conditions setting Teaching, mentorship or clinical supervision qualification (e.g. PGCert in Education or equivalent) Evidence of leading or contributing to audit, research or service improvement projects Experience of working across multi-agency or multidisciplinary community settings Other requirements: Willingness to work flexibly across Bath, Chippenham and Swindon. WHY JOIN US? Brand-new Band 8b role Full-time and part-time opportunities Multiple locations across BSW Developmental support from experienced Consultant Practitioners and Advance Practice Lead Protected non-clinical development time About the Company We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As youd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Finally, we need to let you know that the company youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

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