Advanced Clinical Practitioner – Paediatrics: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 57,528 to 64,750 £ / Year

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified and experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team

You will be expected to function independently and within a clinical team and will demonstrate advanced autonomous clinical practice working across traditional boundaries and augmenting the medical role, utilising assessment, decision making and diagnostic skills. Providing expert advice and to ensure the needs of the patient are met by leading, challenging, and changing practice within the clinical setting.

You will be expected to take the lead and participate in educational issues; clinical supervision; research & audit; evidence-based practice and provide mentorship to other clinical staff working in the field of General Practice.

The role of the ACP will include working collaboratively with other health care professionals in primary and secondary care to ensure a high quality easily accessible service and act as a ACP in the service provided.

The post holder will accept new and follow-up patient referrals within the General Practice, undertaking clinical audit and research, recognising, and acting as an advocate for patients, carers within the service and organisation and leading on changes as required.

Main duties of the job

  • Gather, analyse and report a wide range of data and information.
  • Acts as a role model and an expert resource for patients and staff throughout the Trust
  • Supports the Consultants, Intensive care /Anaesthetic Registrars and other Doctors, in providing patients with treatment plans within the specialty
  • Performs invasive and non-invasive and complex specialist procedures relevant to the and makes recommendations for treatment.
  • Participates in service development. Writes protocols, guidelines and procedures for own remit which, impacts on other members of multi-disciplinary team. Develops and evaluates these protocols and guidelines and procedures using current literature and research

Person Specification

Our Values

Essential

  • We are Kind
  • We are Open
  • We are Inclusive

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered health professional with legal and accountable responsibilities for non-medical prescribing
  • First level registered nurse/professional UK registration
  • First Degree (or equivalent experience)
  • Post registration course in specialty
  • Immediate Life Support

Desirable

  • Teaching qualification (C&G730, CertEd, PGCE or equivalent)
  • Master’s in advanced clinical Practice

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Significant demonstrable experience of working in an acute care setting some of this must include working at a senior level managing and leading teams and this will be assessed at interview
  • Ability to demonstrate specialist expertise underpinned by theory through CPD
  • Excellent clinical reasoning /clinical decision-making skills
  • Evidence of involvement in the development of programs of care, protocols and guidelines
  • Knowledge of Clinical risk management and Governance

Skills

Essential

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills demonstrating negotiation and persuasion skills
  • Evidence of both theoretical and practical skills and competency in Care Management within the specialty
  • Ability to manage demanding and challenging workload
  • Evidence of both theoretical and practical skills and competency in IV therapy and care
  • Ability to handle sensitive situations with tact and diplomacy
  • Ability to make effective decisions
  • Interpretation of diagnostic tests
  • Ability to build rapport with colleagues, patients and relatives
  • Experience of MDT working
  • Strong leadership and team building skills
  • Ability to use own initiative
  • Effective time management skills
  • Ability to work autonomously or within a team

Desirable

  • Enthusiastic, dynamic, self-motivated
  • Confident with IT

Other

Essential

  • Occasional requirement to exert moderate physical effort for short periods during a given time when moving and transferring patients using hoists and other lifting aids.
  • Required to move patients on trolleys and in wheelchairs
  • Required to concentrate when carrying out care. Work is generally predictable but occasional requirement to deal with unpredictable emergency situations.
  • Working closely with complex patients and their carers
  • Supporting patients, carers and families who have been given bad news
  • Supporting staff when delivering and patients when receiving complex interventions

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 28 October 2026

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