Job summary
We are seeking a motivated, experienced and compassionate Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our Hospital at Home Service.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within a dynamic, multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality, patient-centred care to individuals in their own home or usual place of residence. The service supports hospital avoidance, urgent community response, step-up care and early supported discharge, enabling patients to receive safe and effective care closer to home.
The primary aim of the role is to ensure that a high-quality service is delivered to patients and their carers in a timely and responsive manner. The role is multidimensional and requires the post holder to integrate and fulfil the key dimensions of advanced clinical practice, including clinical practice, leadership, education and service development.
Main duties of the job
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner within the Hospital at Home Service, you will act as an autonomous and accountable practitioner, working on your own initiative and in collaboration with nursing, medical, therapy and allied health professional colleagues. You will assess individual patient needs, initiate appropriate investigations, determine differential diagnoses and commence holistic, evidence-based treatment and care.
You will play a key role in supporting safe clinical decision-making, promoting patient independence, reducing unnecessary hospital admission and supporting timely discharge from hospital. The post holder will also act as a positive role model for staff, demonstrating high standards of clinical practice, professionalism, communication and compassionate care.
The Hospital at Home Service operates over seven days, 8am to 8pm, including bank holidays. The successful candidate will therefore be required to work flexibly across the service rota to support safe and responsive service delivery.
We are looking for an individual who is enthusiastic about delivering care in the community, confident in advanced clinical assessment and decision-making, and committed to improving outcomes for patients and their carers.
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About us
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust. As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more. If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Details
- Date posted: 20 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 8a
- Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: 001529
- Job locations: Units 1 & 2 Pioneer Court, Castleford, West Yorkshire, WF10 5QU, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Qualifications
- RGN Level 1 or HCPC registered AHP
- Teaching Qualification
- Masters level qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice with completed dissertation to achieve Band 8a
- Qualified Non-Medical Prescriber
- Recent and relevant continuous professional development
Experience
- Extensive post registration clinical experience in an appropriate care setting
- Experience of working autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner
- Evidence of audit and evidence-based care
- Evidence of multi-disciplinary team working
Please review the full job description and person specification for further essential criteria.
Person specification
Other
Essential
- Able to work rotational shifts
- Commitment to achieving the best possible standards of care
- Ability to demonstrate a flexible approach to working practice and changing situations across site
- Ability to satisfy Occupational Health Screening
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post registration clinical experience in an appropriate care setting
- Experience of working autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner
- Evidence of audit and evidence-based care
- Evidence of multi-disciplinary team working
Desirable
- Working in the Community setting
Qualifications
Essential
- RGN Level 1 or HCPC registered AHP
- Masters level qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice with completed dissertation to achieve Band 8a
- Qualified Non-Medical Prescriber
- Recent and relevant continuous professional development
Desirable
- Teaching Qualification
- ALS/APLS/NLS/ARNI provider
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Be able to demonstrate tact, empathy and reassurance
- To practice with assertiveness and confidence
- To understand own limitations
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Teaching, mentoring and assessment skills
- Management and organisational skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Highly developed oral and written communication skills with patients and the MDT; confidence to discuss sensitive, complex patient management and to liaise and negotiate with other members of the MDT
- Highly developed clinical assessment, analytical and problem-solving skills, including generic healthcare aspects to accurately manage complex patient presentations to an excellent professional standard
- Evidence of ability to critique own practice
- Ability to manage time and workload effectively and to work in a high-pressure environment
- Self-aware reflective practitioner able to envisage the role, and understand and manage inherent pressures of the role
- Ability to demonstrate high emotional intelligence and leadership skills
- Able to resolve conflict and overcome resistance
- Report writing/presentation skills
- IT skills– ability to use Word/Excel/PowerPoint etc
- Mentoring and counselling skills
- Change management skills
- Excellent time management and organisation skills
- Ability to manage, motivate and empower others
- Ability to analyse information/data and provide written reports
- Ability to motivate individuals and teams
- Evidence of consistently providing all aspects of care with compassion, empathy and kindness, showing sensitivity to the needs of individuals
- Apply transparency, honesty and candour behaviours in your practice and challenge non- compliance with these values in others
Knowledge and Awareness
Essential
- Cultural awareness
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of application of relevant National Guidance e.g. National Service Frameworks, NICE etc
- Comprehensive knowledge of the NHS national targets and priorities
- Understanding of the Trust’s objectives and priorities and the ability to work across operational boundaries
- Understanding of healthcare structure with regard to excellent communication skills in collaborating with other Health and Community Partners.
- Ability to understand aspects of legal and role boundaries and of Advanced Clinical Practitioner scope of practice
- Understanding what the NHS Constitution and Personal Responsibility Framework means to you, and your responsibilities to the public, patients and colleagues.
Desirable
- Recruitment and Selection, Appraisal and other HR/People Management related training
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