Advanced Clinical Practitioner


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£57,528 to £64,750 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Burslem, ST6 7AG
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	30 Oct 2026
Closing date:	13 Nov 2026

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Summary

Work autonomously using their expertise and high level complex decision-making skills to inform high-quality clinical assessment, and evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses, intervention, and treatment plans where required. Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements, diagnoses, and treatment plans. Use specialist knowledge of investigations and treatment options to provide patients with necessary information to obtain informed consent before any clinical intervention is undertaken. Initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions which may include prescribing medicines, therapies, lifestyle advice and care in line with policies, guidelines, & pathways but where necessary seeks consensus from the wider clinical team to apply justifiable deviance from published guidelines and policies. Demonstrate sound clinical judgement including when working with complexity, risk or uncertainty and incomplete information showing awareness of own competence and scope of practice when treating a wide range of patient problems. Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to care for patients in complex and/or urgent situations, demonstrating critical reflection on own practice, supporting colleagues to reflect and seeking advice as required. Have highly developed physical/procedural skills relevant to their role, which may include, Intermediate life support. Order and/or perform diagnostic/therapeutic procedures such as venepuncture, cannulation, ECG recording, which may include interpreting or providing formal report. Using specialist knowledge and experience within the specialty, provide advice and support to colleagues, acting as a resource to the wider clinical team. Manage contentious and challenging issues, seeking advice and guidance as required, to ensure very sensitive or complex information is communicated to patients and their family / carers in empathetic and appropriate manner, providing reassurance and support as appropriate with the person at the centre of care. This would typically include the delivering of difficult / unwelcome news related to diagnosis and / or treatment i.e. news of serious illness Act as a clinical role model and advocate for developing high quality, compassionate care with privacy and dignity to ensure a person-centred approach to the delivery of care. Ensure that accurate contemporaneous documentation/records of care are completed in line with trust policies and professional codes of conduct. Ensure adherence to moving and handling policy and procedures when in contact with/manoeuvring patients. To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of patients and upholding the professional standards detailed within the NMC/HCPC Codes, including revalidation standards. Work in partnership with patients, carers, lived experience colleagues and system partners to ensure the effective, person-centred delivery of D2A pathways, supporting timely discharge and continuity of care across organisational boundaries. Provide expert clinical decision-making and consultancy-level advice to multidisciplinary colleagues (including acute clinicians, GPs, therapists, nurses, community teams, and social care) on the management of complex and high-risk patients within D2A pathways. Undertake and interpret comprehensive assessments, using advanced clinical reasoning to determine appropriate onward care, including referral to diagnostics, community services, urgent response teams, or specialist services as required. Contribute to clinical debrief following clinical incidents

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