Advanced Clinical Practitioner -Heathlands Integrated Care Unit

Job overview

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) is a highly skilled, autonomous clinician who plays a pivotal role in delivering expert, person-centred care across professional boundaries. This cutting-edge role integrates traditional medical responsibilities with advanced clinical practice, acting as a role model of excellence in holistic, evidence-based care delivery.

Operating at an advanced level of practice, the ACP independently assesses, diagnoses, treats, and manages a wide range of acute and chronic conditions. The post holder utilises advanced clinical reasoning and critical thinking to make safe and effective decisions, working within established local and national clinical guidelines and protocols.

In addition to direct patient care, the ACP is instrumental in service development and quality improvement. They contribute significantly to the leadership, education, and development of the wider multi-professional team—including nursing, midwifery, AHPs, and medical colleagues—while demonstrating competence across the Four Pillars of Advanced Practice: Clinical Practice, Leadership and Management, Education, and Research.

This role offers an opportunity to shape and advance interprofessional clinical practice while ensuring the highest standards of patient outcomes.

Main duties of the job

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Practice

• Deliver expert clinical care to patients, prioritising health needs and intervening appropriately.
• Exercise advanced clinical reasoning and decision-making to assess, diagnose, treat, and manage complex, acute, undifferentiated, and chronic presentations.
• Provide high-level clinical skills and practice based on specialist knowledge at academic level 7.
• Undertake comprehensive clinical examinations and initiate appropriate investigations and treatments.
• Request and interpret diagnostic tests to inform clinical management.
• Maintain professional and legal accountability in line with Trust policies and regulatory standards.
• Ensure informed consent is obtained before treatments or procedures.
• Independently manage a caseload and supervise junior team members.
• Recognise and escalate potential risks to patient safety and contribute to maintaining a safe clinical environment.
• Support safe prescribing practices, including prescribing/de-prescribing in accordance with relevant legislation and Trust policies (where applicable).
• Rapidly assess and continuously evaluate patient conditions, modifying care plans as necessary.
• Make decisions to refer, discharge, or transition care as appropriate.
• Educate and involve patients and carers in care planning and decision-making.
• Ensure accurate and timely documentation in patient records, including digital systems.
• Contribute to the development of patient pathways to improve flow and care continuity.