Job summary
- Main area
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 236-OCO-NM460-25
- Employer
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Oldham Council Office
- Town
- Oldham
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Urgent Care Response
Band 8a
Job overview
Join Our Urgent Response Team
Advanced Clinical Practitioner – Community Urgent Response
Are you an experienced clinician with a passion for delivering urgent care where it matters most? We’re looking for a Community Urgent Response Advanced Clinical Practitioner to provide urgent, person-centred care in patients’ homes—helping to prevent hospital admissions and support recovery in the community.
Oldham Urgent Care Response Team is looking to widen the scope of support to patients in community to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and reduce ambulance call outs.
If you’re passionate about leading change, nurturing talent, and championing patient care, we want to hear from you! Help us build a health service that truly meets the needs of our community.
Main duties of the job
What you'll bring:
- Advanced assessment and clinical decision-making skills
- A proactive, autonomous approach
- A commitment to compassionate, high-quality care
- Experience and confidence to make decisions and balance risk.
- A supportive nature, which fosters a learning culture for junior clinicians in the team.
What we offer:
- A supportive, forward-thinking multidisciplinary team.
- Opportunities for leadership, innovation, and professional development.
- Flexible working to support your work-life balance
Be the difference in someone’s day. Be the care that comes to them.
Apply now and help shape the future of urgent community care in Oldham.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Master’s in Advanced Practice
- Non-Medical Prescriber v300
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of completing a leadership course/module
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience within community services at a senior level
Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective communicator able to communicate complex and highly sensitive information
- Evidence of effective people management and leadership skills
- Demonstrates specialist expertise underpinned by theory acquired through CPD
- Excellent clinical reasoning / clinical decision making
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stacey Debio
- Job title
- Lead Nurse Urgent Care Response Team
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07563252324
- Additional information
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