Urgent Care Clinical Lead

Job overview

Are you an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner looking for an exciting leadership opportunity within Urgent Care? We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Urgent Care Clinical Lead Nurse/Paramedic to provide professional, clinical and operational leadership within our Out of Hours Primary Care Centre based at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

Working closely with operational, medical and governance colleagues, you will play a key role in shaping the future of urgent care services while maintaining high standards of patient care, workforce development, clinical governance and service improvement. This unique Band 8a role combines strategic leadership with regular autonomous clinical practice, allowing you to influence service delivery while remaining clinically credible and visible within the team.

This is a 23-hour per week (0.61 WTE) position. The role is primarily based within the Out of Hours service, with one weekday leadership and management day worked during core hours at Wokingham Hospital. The expected working pattern is:

Week 1

• Monday: 19:00-23:00
• Tuesday: 19:00-23:00
• Wednesday: 19:00-23:00
• Thursday: 10:00-18:00
• Friday: 19:00-23:00 Week 2
• Thursday: 10:00-18:00
• Saturday: 10:00-18:00
• Sunday: 10:00-18:00

We welcome applications from experienced ACPs who are passionate about leading high-quality urgent care services, developing clinical staff and driving innovation and improvement across multidisciplinary teams.

Main duties of the job

• Provide visible clinical leadership across both weekday and out-of-hours services, including evening and weekend clinical shifts within the Primary Care Centre.
• Maintain regular autonomous clinical practice, assessing, diagnosing and managing patients with minor illness and urgent care needs.
• Lead recruitment, appraisal, supervision and professional development of multidisciplinary staff.
• Oversee clinical governance, risk management, patient safety, incident investigations and quality improvement activity.
• Lead medicines management, prescribing governance and medication safety initiatives.
• Support the development and governance of Advanced Clinical Practitioners.
• Analyse service performance data and implement improvements to enhance patient outcomes and operational effectiveness.
• Work collaboratively with operational, governance and medical colleagues to drive service development and innovation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

• Registered General Nurse (NMC) or Registered Paramedic (HCPC) with a recognised Advanced Clinical Practitioner qualification and Independent Prescriber qualification.
• Significant experience as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner within urgent care, primary care, community services or a similar healthcare setting.
• Demonstrable experience of leading and managing multidisciplinary teams, workforce development and clinical governance activities.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, prescribing, medicines management and patient safety.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses given in your supporting statement genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.

In addition to explaining how you meet the person specification, you must complete your employment history for at least the last five years. Any experience, skills or responsibilities referenced in your supporting statement should be evidenced within your employment history. Applications that do not include sufficient employment history to support the experience claimed may not be shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Stonewall Proud Employer, Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call Carla Woolford on 07920765378 or email carla.woolford@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

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.