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Job summary

Main area
Emergency Medicine
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (Shift work across 7 days a week.)
Job ref
176-U-8040811
Employer
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Peterborough City Hospital - Emergency Department
Town
Peterborough
Salary
£57,528 - £64,750 Unsocial hours are paid in accordance with Agenda for Change
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/07/2026 23:59

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Emergency Medicine Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Peterborough

Band 8a

Job overview

We have the opportunity for appropriately qualified and experienced Emergency Medicine (EM) Advanced Clinical Practitioner(s) to join our amazing team of Enhanced and Advanced level Practitioners within the Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) Directorate at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust (NWAFT). 

We are looking for enthusiastic, self-motivated NMC/HCPC Registered Nurse’s, Paramedics or Physiotherapists with the right attributes to work alongside our multidisciplinary team within the Emergency Department (ED) and integrated Urgent Treatment Care (iUTC) at Peterborough City Hospital (PCH). 

Ware able to support successful candidate(s) with further academic study and training and developing technical skills. This role also attracts Supporting Professional Activities (SPA) time for Practitioners to undertake personal and service development. Therefore, we look for the candidate(s) with the right attributes and characteristics for our team. We will assess people not only on their academic and technical achievements but on their non-technical and communication skills. 

Our ACP’s also spend time teaching, training, supporting and developing trainee and junior staff from nursing, medical and allied healthcare professional backgrounds as part of their role. 

Consideration maybe given to part-qualified applicants (minimum Post-Graduate Diploma in Advanced Clinical Practice) but if successful, pay grade (Band 7) and a development plan would require to be agreed. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will practice independently within the Consultant led Emergency Department (ED) and integrated Urgent Treatment Centre (iUTC), being a role model of the four pillars of Advanced Practice. This clinically focussed role will encompass the post holder providing exemplary patient-centred and sound evidenced based care to patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems. The post holder will form part of a multi-disciplinary team aspiring to achieve local and national standards across different areas of the department, whilst providing formal and informal education, teaching, and mentorship, second opinion advice and support to junior clinicians during a span of duty. The post holder will demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills and clinical attributes, enabling him/her to provide expert clinical and professional support to other clinicians and staff within their area of work of the UEC division. 

Working for our organisation

Priority will be given to colleagues identified as at risk through the Trust’s redeployment process.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will practice independently within the Consultant led ED and integrated Urgent Treatment Centre (iUTC), being a role model of the four pillars of Advanced Practice. This clinically focussed role will encompass the post holder providing exemplary patient-centred and sound evidenced based care to patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems. The post holder will form part of a multi-disciplinary team aspiring to achieve local and national standards across different areas of the department, whilst providing formal and informal education, teaching, and mentorship, second opinion advice and support to junior clinicians during a span of duty. The post holder will demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills and clinical attributes, enabling him/her to provide expert clinical and professional support to other clinicians and staff within their area of work of the UEC division. 

Please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification for full details.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NMC Registered Nurse or HCPC Registered Paramedic or Physiotherapist
  • Master’s Degree in Advanced Clinical Practice (or in certain circumstances has completed Health Education England (HEE) ACP ePortfolio)
  • Independent Prescriber (V300)
  • Safeguarding Adults (level 3)
  • Safeguarding Children (level 3)
  • IR(ME)R certificate
  • Advanced Life Support provider (ALS)
  • Advanced Paediatric Life Support provider (APLS)
  • Immediate Life Support provider (ILS)
  • Paediatric Immediate Life Support provider (PILS)
  • Current Portfolio/ePortfolio of practice evidence
Desirable criteria
  • Advanced Trauma Life Support provider (ATLS) or European Trauma Course (ETC)
  • Completed or working toward accreditation/credentialing with The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)
  • Generic Instructor Course (GIC) for the Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) or Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG)
  • Leadership qualification
  • Teaching / Assessment and mentoring qualification
  • Have Ultrasound Level 1 qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Has completed a specific ACP trainee programme
  • Has ≥5 year’s whole time equivalent (WTE) post registration experience working within Emergency, Urgent, Acute or Critical Care at AfC Band 5 or above.
  • Competent in the clinical assessment and management of all patient groups.
  • Able to role model and lead whilst working independently and within a team
Desirable criteria
  • Have had line management experience
  • Experience of teaching at informal and formal level
  • Change management experience
  • Participated in audit and developed service improvement strategies.
  • Has had appraisal and recruitment training

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates up-to-date knowledge and expertise of the four pillars of Advanced Practice.
  • Effective verbal and non-verbal communication across the age and acuity spectrum at all levels.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development.
  • Competent in 12 lead ECG interpretation
  • Competent to interpretation of clinical diagnostics such as blood results and make appropriate plan and intervention including blood gasses.
  • Competent to interpret plain radiographs / X-rays and make appropriate clinical interventions from diagnostics
Desirable criteria
  • Has evidence of a recently undertaken audit of own practice and implemented changes where required
  • Competent to interpret Computerised Tomography (CT) images
  • Experience of working on a Trust committee or group.
  • Working knowledge of Human Resource (HR) policies
  • Experience of applying research evidence to clinical practice
  • Awareness of local and national issues relating to healthcare provision

Key Skills

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate a clear vision and the role of the ACP service
  • Ability to initiate, sustain and evaluate change.
  • Demonstrates skilled written and verbal communication, presentation and decision-making skills
  • Organised, able to prioritise, make decisions and meet targets/deadlines
  • Willingness to embrace change to meet the short-term and long term needs of the Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) directorate
  • Ability to support staff in a demanding and challenging environment
  • Personable - good role model.
  • Able to work under pressure with flexibility in approach
  • Good negotiation and advocacy skills
  • Able to undertake basic wound management (e.g., clean, medical photography, steri-strips, medical glue, appropriate dressing etc.)
  • Able to undertaken advanced wound management techniques (e.g., suturing, staples etc.)
  • Can undertake venepuncture, cannulation
  • Can undertake intraosseous (IO) access.
  • Can identify critical Limb injuries and know how to manage including dislocations and those needing manipulation.
  • Has good understanding on pain management and methods to reduce pain (e.g., analgesia, slings, cold compress, immobilisation etc).
Desirable criteria
  • Can insert Longlines/Midlines with ultrasound guidance.

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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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close earlier if it received a high number of applications and therefore we recommend that you complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mr Ian Sutor
Job title
Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Peterborough)
Email address
[email protected]

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Address
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Resourcing Department
Hinchingbrooke Hospital
Hinchingbrooke Park
Huntingdon
Cambs
PE29 6NT
Telephone
01480 847491
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