Job overview

The Opportunity

Are you an experienced, fully qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner, with  RCEM Credentialling, looking to shape the future of emergency care? Addenbrooke’s Hospital is recruiting a Senior ACP to take on a pivotal leadership role within our Emergency Department.

Lead the Future

This is more than a clinical role; it is an opportunity to lead and inspire a growing team of Advanced Practitioners. You will play a key strategic role in the design, operational management, and future development of our ACP service, helping us define what excellence looks like in modern emergency medicine.

Advance Your Practice

While leadership is central to this post, your clinical practice and growth is a priority. You will be supported to further develop your high-level decision-making and autonomy, working alongside our senior medical colleagues to manage complex presentations.

Who Should Apply

This post is open to existing, fully qualified ACPs with significant experience in emergency care. If you have the vision to lead a team and the clinical expertise to set the standard, this is your chance to make a lasting impact at one of the UK’s leading teaching hospitals.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the line management of the ACP team within Emergency Medicine while having clinical responsibilities within these services.  They will focus on all aspects of workforce growth and management including education, financial oversight, rostering, and service delivery.

The post holder will be an advanced clinician with excellent interpersonal and communication skills and clinical attributes, enabling him/her to provide expert clinical and professional support to other clinicians and staff.

The post holder will have a 60% service delivery component to their role at an advanced level. The remaining 40% of the role will be dedicated to the delivery of line management, governance, workforce development, and training, for trainee ACPs and ACP development.

Working for our organisation

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.