Job summary
- Main area
- West Call Out of Hours
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 23 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CHS1340
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Call Out of Hours, Royal Berkshire Hospital, London Road
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Urgent Care Clinical Lead
Band 8a
Job overview
Are you an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner looking for an exciting leadership opportunity within Urgent Care? We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Urgent Care Clinical Lead Nurse/Paramedic to provide professional, clinical and operational leadership within our Out of Hours Primary Care Centre based at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.
Working closely with operational, medical and governance colleagues, you will play a key role in shaping the future of urgent care services while maintaining high standards of patient care, workforce development, clinical governance and service improvement. This unique Band 8a role combines strategic leadership with regular autonomous clinical practice, allowing you to influence service delivery while remaining clinically credible and visible within the team.
This is a 23-hour per week (0.61 WTE) position. The role is primarily based within the Out of Hours service, with one weekday leadership and management day worked during core hours at Wokingham Hospital. The expected working pattern is:
Week 1
• Monday: 19:00-23:00
• Tuesday: 19:00-23:00
• Wednesday: 19:00-23:00
• Thursday: 10:00-18:00
• Friday: 19:00-23:00
Week 2
• Thursday: 10:00-18:00
• Saturday: 10:00-18:00
• Sunday: 10:00-18:00
We welcome applications from experienced ACPs who are passionate about leading high-quality urgent care services, developing clinical staff and driving innovation and improvement across multidisciplinary teams.
Main duties of the job
• Provide visible clinical leadership across both weekday and out-of-hours services, including evening and weekend clinical shifts within the Primary Care Centre.
• Maintain regular autonomous clinical practice, assessing, diagnosing and managing patients with minor illness and urgent care needs.
• Lead recruitment, appraisal, supervision and professional development of multidisciplinary staff.
• Oversee clinical governance, risk management, patient safety, incident investigations and quality improvement activity.
• Lead medicines management, prescribing governance and medication safety initiatives.
• Support the development and governance of Advanced Clinical Practitioners.
• Analyse service performance data and implement improvements to enhance patient outcomes and operational effectiveness.
• Work collaboratively with operational, governance and medical colleagues to drive service development and innovation.
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
• Registered General Nurse (NMC) or Registered Paramedic (HCPC) with a recognised Advanced Clinical Practitioner qualification and Independent Prescriber qualification.
• Significant experience as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner within urgent care, primary care, community services or a similar healthcare setting.
• Demonstrable experience of leading and managing multidisciplinary teams, workforce development and clinical governance activities.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, prescribing, medicines management and patient safety.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses given in your supporting statement genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.
In addition to explaining how you meet the person specification, you must complete your employment history for at least the last five years. Any experience, skills or responsibilities referenced in your supporting statement should be evidenced within your employment history. Applications that do not include sufficient employment history to support the experience claimed may not be shortlisted.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Stonewall Proud Employer, Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call Carla Woolford on 07920765378 or email [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Education, qualifications or training
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse (NMC) or Registered Paramedic (HCPC).
- Master’s degree in advanced clinical practice or equivalent postgraduate qualification.
- Recognised Advanced Clinical Practitioner qualification.
- Independent Prescriber qualification.
- Evidence of advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis and decision-making skills.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership and management qualification or equivalent experience.
- Teaching, mentorship or clinical supervision qualification.
- IR(ME)R certification or equivalent radiation protection training (where role appropriate).
Continuous Professional Development
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to advanced clinical practice.
- Evidence of leadership and management development.
- Evidence of maintaining prescribing competence and medicines management knowledge
- Participation in clinical audit, quality improvement or service evaluation activities.
- Commitment to lifelong learning and professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Participation in research, publication or dissemination of best practice.
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner within urgent care, primary care, community or equivalent healthcare setting
- Experience of providing autonomous assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients presenting with minor illness and/or urgent care needs.
- Experience of leading and managing multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience of workforce management including recruitment, appraisal, supervision and performance management.
- Experience of clinical governance, risk management and patient safety processes.
- Experience of leading quality improvement, service development or transformation initiatives.
- Experience of medicines management, prescribing governance and medication safety.
- Experience of analysing performance data and implementing improvement plans.
- Experience of supporting Advanced Clinical Practitioners, trainee ACPs or other clinicians through supervision and development.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of budget management and resource planning.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Expert knowledge and skills in advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis and management.
- Sound knowledge of urgent care pathways, national standards and relevant clinical guidance.
- Comprehensive understanding of clinical governance, risk management and patient safety frameworks
- Knowledge of medicines legislation, prescribing governance and medicines optimisation principles.
- Knowledge of safeguarding adults and children and associated statutory responsibilities
- Ability to provide professional and clinical leadership across multidisciplinary teams
- Ability to lead change, innovation and service improvement programmes.
- Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to analyse complex information, make decisions and solve problems effectively.
- Ability to prioritise workload, manage competing demands and achieve objectives within agreed timescales.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of workforce planning, staff development and succession planning principles.
- Understanding of research methodologies and implementation of evidence-based practice.
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates Trust values and behaviours.
- Professional, resilient and credible leader.
- Able to work autonomously and exercise sound professional judgement
- Flexible and adaptable to service needs.
- Ability to travel between sites as required.
- Full UK driving licence and access to transport.
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
- Carla Woolford
- Job title
- OOH Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920765378
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