Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The closing date is 13 November 2025

We have an exciting opportunity for highly motivated and enthusiastic ACPs to work within the Urgent Treatment Centres. Our UTC sites are Whitworth and Buxton. We are seeking highly motivated and experienced nurses or allied health professionals to join our existing team of ACPs. Our vacancies are at our Ripley and Ilkeston locations.

A Band 8a position will be offered to candidates who have already completed an MSc in Advanced Practice (or equivalent) and who can demonstrate contemporary experience working at an advanced level within a relevant clinical environment.

Please note, this role is for trained ACPs ONLY.

Main duties of the job

The role will support a core team of ACPs across all units in order to provide a model of seven day service cover, ultimately linking the trainees into a core clinical lead support resource. The GM will be responsible for ensuring that the direction of the service continues.

As an ACP you will:

• Provide clinical leadership, including direct clinical care, and advice on complex issues in the UTCs
• Establish a cohesive team approach for the ACP workforce development
• Support the UTC service leads and managers with audit, innovation, and performance management
• Lead on training needs discussions, based on audit findings, supervision outputs and individual staff knowledge gaps
• Assist in feedback for staff appraisals
• You will apply advanced clinical expertise, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making to the provision of clinical care to adults and children, presenting with undifferentiated diagnosis both minor injuries and illness within a UTC setting.

You will exercise a high degree of autonomy through the application of advanced clinical skills in relation to the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of adults and children.

You will lead and monitor improvements to quality of care through clinical audit, evidence-based practice, clinical supervision, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and the provision of skilled professional leadership.

About us

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people's own homes and via virtual consultations.

It is an exciting time to join primary care and community services as the national Ageing Well programme gathers pace.

DCHS is working closely with the Primary Care Networks to transform the care of housebound and vulnerable people across Derbyshire through our Team-Up approach.

Job responsibilities

We are seeking ACPs with a special interest in the management of the typical conditions seen within a UTC, to provide day-to-day clinical leadership support to the teams.

To provide leadership support for the clinicians already working in the service, to advance the care of the presenting patients (in line with our 4 pillars approach).

We are looking for ACPs with a proven track record of working at this level in an urgent care environment and who can support Service Leads and Unit managers in safe care delivery.

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Person Specification Education & Qualifications

• Registered with NMC or HCPC
• Non-medical prescriber
• MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
• Minimum level 7 module in physical examination and clinical reasoning
• Teaching Qualification

Experience & Knowledge

• Mentor, appraiser or clinical supervisor
• Involvement in service quality improvement
• Experience of providing clinical leadership
• Experience of working in an urgent care setting
• Practice understanding of primary care and community services

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT

£55,690 to £62,682 a year, per annum, pro rata