Advanced Practitioner - Emergency Assessment Unit
Posted 17 hours 43 minutes ago by NHS
The closing date is 17 February 2026
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Advanced Practitioner who is ready to take on a new and exciting challenge within Acute Medicine.
You will be a key member of the wider Advanced Practice team within the emergency assessment unit, working closely with the Senior Advanced Practitioner, Acute Medical Consultants, and the broader nursing and therapy teams across the emergency assessment unit.
This role will be based in the Emergency assessment unit with clinical time assigned to Medical SDEC.
Main duties of the jobWe strongly believe in the role of advanced practice and actively strive to provide an environment that will assist you as an individual to deliver autonomous practice to allow you to continue to develop not only your clinical skills but also across all the four pillars of advance practice. You will be supported in maintaining an active Advanced Practice portfolio and will be allocated non-clinical time to help fulfil these responsibilities.
You will contribute to ongoing development projects within the Emergency Assessment unit and invest in your own continued professional growth, engaging with both in-house initiatives and regional networks.
Key responsibilities include:
- Active participation in EAU team meetings
- Access to a comprehensive in-house clinical supervision and mentoring package
- Involvement in, and potential leadership of, departmental research and audit initiatives
- Delivering teaching sessions both internally and at local or national level
- Supporting the development of trainee ACPs
- Active involvement in clinical governance meetings
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work life balance.
Learn more about us in our Candidate Information Pack
Person Specification Qualifications & Professional Registration- Registered Nurse with current NMC Pin NMC or HPCP
- Clinical based Masters degree
- Non Medical Prescribing Certificate
- ALS certificate
- Substantial experience of which considerable experience is within ED/MSK specialty at a senior level
- Evidence of extensive expert professional/ clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical training and CPD
- Demonstrates specialist expertise underpinned by theory acquired through CPD
- Excellent clinical reasoning / clinical decision making
- Evidence of involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners
- Effective communicator able to communicate complex and sensitive information
- Evidence of effective people management and leadership skills
- Evidence of involvement in the development of programmes of care, protocols and clinical audit
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.