Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a skilled and passionate Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)to join the Urgent and Emergency Care Clinical Division WTWA. This senior clinical role is integral to the ongoing transformation of urgent and emergency services, providing expert clinical leadership and supporting high standards of care delivery across our Adult and Paediatric Emergency Department (ED) and Urgent Treatment Centers (UTC). As a Lead ACP, you will work autonomously at an advanced clinical level, managing patients across the full spectrum of undifferentiated emergency presentations. You will also provide visible clinical leadership, mentoring and developing a growing team of ACPs, Trainee ACPs and Emergency Nurse Practitioners (EP), ensuring excellence in clinical practice, education, and service innovation. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated ACP to influence strategic service development, enhance patient experience, and support safe, effective urgent care pathways. 

Main duties of the job

Lead the clinical delivery of care within the Urgent and Emergency Care, across the Adult and Paediatric ED and UTCs.

Provide high-level assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and discharge planning for a broad range of emergency presentations.

Lead the supervision, development, and appraisal of ACPs and Trainee ACPs and ENPs  supporting workforce growth and clinical excellence.

Collaborate with senior clinical, operational, and education leaders to drive quality improvement and service innovation.

Contribute to governance activities, including audit, incident review, and clinical effectiveness initiatives.

Champion an open honest culture of compassionate, patient-centered care in line with Trust values.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.