# Trainee ACP

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** The Queen Elizabeth hospital foundation NHS trust
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Nurse practitioner
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £56,515 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day service including unsocial hours and bank holidays)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-01T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18T14:41:08.138Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Kings_Lynn/The_Queen_Elizabeth_Hospital_Kings_Lynn_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Emergency_care/Emergency_care-v8174948
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8174948?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.qehkl.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

A high profile, accessible and responsive Practitioner with clinical responsibility for the delivery of Advanced Clinical Practice in Emergency Medicine, able to make informed decisions within their own speciality and scope of professional practice, involving patients and public to ensure agreed standards, targets and objectives are met.

### Main duties of the job

The role of the tACP is integral to the medical assessment, management and referral of patients presenting to the emergency department at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kings Lynn, working alongside the medical team, including doctors in training, and the wider multi-professional workforce.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As part of the multidisciplinary medical team, the post holder will provide clinical expertise towards developing and enhancing the clinical service in the Emergency department. The post holder will demonstrate advanced skills and competencies, and ensure that evidence based practice is inherent in all aspects of the patient care and treatment. Working within the multidisciplinary team following local and nationally agreed protocols and guidelines, the tACP exercises independent judgement under supervision to assess, investigate, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate the clinical care and management of Emergency Department patients. They work alongside and support the education and development of medical, nursing and AHP colleagues

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Sound clinical skills
- Demonstrate ability to produce complex reports and formulate policies
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as a team member.

**Desirable**

- Advanced clinical practice skills i.e. ABGs, ECG and CXR interpretation

### Experience

**Essential**

- Currently practicing within an urgent and emergency care setting for a minimum of 5 years, demonstrating a broad range of experience within the acute setting.
- Experience of successfully resolving complex problems

**Desirable**

- Evidence of conference presentation or journal publication
- Experience in service development
- Experience as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Proven record of leading and effectively managing change

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered nurse or Allied Healthcare Professional with current NMC/HCPC professional registration
- First Level Degree
- Able to study at Masters level and willing to complete or currently working towards Masters in Advanced Clinical Practice
- Non-medical prescribing qualification at masters level
- Evidence of CPD

**Desirable**

- ALS/ APLS provider or equivalent
- Completion of leadership module/course
- IRMER regulation trained
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- RED DOT X-ray training course
- Intention to complete RCEM ACP accreditation

## Documents

- [our values (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2570)
- [our trust (pdf, 674.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2671)
- [say hello to stream (pdf, 7.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2393)
- [establishing identity (pdf, 243.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1315)
- [recruitment policy overview (pdf, 125.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2961)
- [band 6 job description and person specification (pdf, 408.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10477643)

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