Job overview
Stockport Foundation Trust is seeking a highly motivated, experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner who is able to offer strong operational and clinical leadership to our team of ACPs within the Directorate of Medicine for Older People
The post holder must have a breadth of experience and be able to demonstrate experience within the 4 pillars of advanced practice and have successfully led strategy and high performing teams.
The post holder will lead the team alongside supporting the Divisional and Trust vision for Advanced Practice.
If you feel that you fit this then we would like to hear from you
The post will be structured around four core functions that exemplify the role:
- An expert clinician / practice function
- A professional leadership and consultancy function
- An education training and development function
- A research, evaluation and service development function
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Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities may include:
- Leading the operational delivery of Older People's Services.
- Ensuring high standards of patient care, safety and experience.
- Driving quality improvement, governance and service redesign programmes.
- Supporting patient flow, discharge planning and capacity management.
- Leading and developing the nursing and multidisciplinary workforce.
- Monitoring performance against key quality and operational indicators.
- Managing risks, incidents and complaints within the service area.
- Supporting delivery of Trust and Directorate strategic objectives.
- Working in partnership with internal and external stakeholders to improve integrated care pathways.
- Providing senior leadership, expert advice and professional support to the ACP team and across the Directorate.
- The post holder will provide strategic, professional and operational leadership, ensuring robust governance arrangements are in place to support the delivery of safe, effective and responsive services for older people, while driving continuous improvement in quality, patient experience and clinical outcomes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
Person specification
knowledge
Essential
- Senior experience within Acute medicine / Frailty services
- Evidence of practice development and innovation
- Proven track record in leadership
- Ability to undertake and utilise research findings in clinical setting
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post registration relevant experience demonstrating the appropriate competencies for the role
- Evidence of research/audit
- Extensive Acute medicine / Frailty experience
- Proven track record of involvement service redesign and change management
- Senior experience delivering presentations in Advanced Practice
Desirable
- Involvement with local and national committees and have strong links with local Universities
skills and Abilities
Essential
- Must be able to work autonomously within area of expertise
- Ability to manage a complex workload
- Ability to prioritise and deal with complex issues
- Direct professional development of self and others, able to supervise ACP’s and trainee ACP’s within the practice area
- Deliver work based education to both the ACP;s trainee ACP’s
- Able to work under pressure
- Effective high level communication, facilitation and counselling skills
- Self-motivated and the ability to motivate others
Education & Qualification
Essential
- Registered Nurse/AHP with Professional Registration
- MSc level in Advanced Clinical Practice
- Non-medical prescriber
- Educational Qualification or equivalent experience
- Leadership/Management qualification
Desirable
- Doctoral degree or willing to work towards
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This advert is for Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust in Stockport, North West, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £66,582 - £77,368 pro rata per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 04 Aug 2026.
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