Advanced Clinical Practitioner – Savernake

Job Introduction

We’re delighted to offer a wonderful opportunity for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team at Savernake Hospital, set within the tranquil woodlands of Wiltshire. We’re seeking an ACP who is passionate about delivering exceptional care and making a genuine difference to patients within our Community Hospitals Inpatient setting. Joining us means becoming part of a supportive, close-knit team where your clinical expertise, forward-thinking approach, and commitment to holistic care will be appreciated and celebrated every day.

Benefits

• £57,528 – £64,750 (Band 8a AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving access to discounts on everyday purchases and cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to wages as you earn them to cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face-to-face help with mental and physical wellbeing – healthy recipes and activity challenges, post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our “Outstanding” learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture encouraging ideas to deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least 100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to highest clinical and quality standards: majority of our rated services hold “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee and milk at base location

Main Responsibilities

• Deliver an autonomous Advanced Clinical Practitioner service in Community Hospital inpatient settings aligned with national and organisational standards.
• Conduct high-level assessments to diagnose, initiate treatments, arrange investigations, and coordinate care with minimal delay.
• Ensure patient-centred decision-making, respecting patient preferences for current and future care.
• Agree roles, actions and expected outcomes with patients, carers and professionals, referring appropriately.
• Demonstrate positive leadership, specialist clinical knowledge and adherence to NMC professional standards.
• Proactively manage clinical, performance, and staffing issues.
• Avoid unnecessary patient transfers to secondary acute care where appropriate.
• Provide professional leadership to nurses and multidisciplinary team members, including social care staff.
• Work with the patient’s Community Team Key Worker to support safe discharge.
• Monitor care delivery to ensure it remains patient-centred.
• Ensure effective resource use, support budget management, and attend review meetings with the Team Leader.
• Reprioritise throughout the day and respond promptly to staff issues, complaints, safeguarding concerns and incidents, ensuring investigation and shared learning.
• Use patient feedback, incident learning and complaints to improve pathways and patient experience.
• Support and implement changes aligned with national and organisational guidance (e.g., NICE, NSFs).
• Maintain responsibility for Information Governance, health, safety and security compliance.
• Oversee clinical audits, ensuring recommendations are implemented into everyday practice.
• Build effective relationships with internal teams such as specialist nurses, community nursing, therapies and primary care.
• Promote a learning environment that supports skill-sharing and development across all disciplines.
• Ensure staff complete mandatory training and take part in annual appraisals.
• Ensure participation in clinical supervision, peer review, mid-year and annual appraisals to support competency and revalidation.
• Implement work-based learning to develop a skilled, forward-thinking and motivated nursing service.
• Identify and advise on audit, research and innovation topics; ensure findings are shared and acted upon.
• Monitor clinical and managerial performance against targets, contributing to risk assessments and required reports.
• Organise and oversee professional, business, clinical and quality meetings aligned with national and local priorities.
• Provide patients, families and carers with tailored information and health advice, including early warning signs and beneficial lifestyle changes.
• Provide cover for peer ACPs as needed.

Essential Qualifications and Training

• Registered Nurse, current registration with the NMC
• MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or Advanced Nurse Practitioner
• Currently working at Band 7 or 8a level.
• Relevant postgraduate Community Nursing/Acute Nursing speciality qualification/training
• Registered Independent Non-Medical Prescriber
• Leadership qualification/training

Essential Experience

• Minimum of 5 years post registration experience, including at least 2 years working in a supervisory/managerial capacity at minimum band 6 level within a community/acute nursing setting
• Evidence of enhanced clinical practice at Masters level in relevant speciality
• Experience of effective budget and resource management
• Initiating research and/or audit and implementing changes/improvements in practice
• Experience of initiating, managing and evaluating change
• Experience of giving presentations to a wide audience

Essential Knowledge

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of current health and social care policy, legislation, ethical practice, Clinical Governance and CQC requirements
• High levels of understanding of nursing body requirements including the NMC Code, revalidation, nursing standards, peer review and clinical supervision
• Good knowledge of national guidelines e.g. NICE and NSFs
• Knowledge of research and current evidence-based practice
• High levels of knowledge, understanding and experience of multi-disciplinary working and inter-professional practice

Essential Skills

• Demonstrable experience of working across organisational boundaries and teams
• Demonstrates ability to think at a strategic level
• Experience of transformational leadership
• Able to plan, organise and reprioritise own work under pressure
• Demonstrates initiative and good interpersonal skills
• Excellent analytical and reflection skills
• Able to influence, negotiate and motivate others
• Able to write and present complex case reports business cases
• Advanced keyboard, IT skills including the use of emails

Additional Requirements

• Enthusiastic, assertive and self-motivated
• Flexible and able to respond to changing priorities
• Reliable, respectful and approachable
• Car driver and able to travel across DGSS

Desirable

• Management qualification
• Post Registration Teaching Qualification
• Experience of presentations outside of own organisation
• Experience of teaching on higher educational award courses

Equal Opportunities

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

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