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Job summary

Main area
Emergency Medicine
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (evening work, weekend and bank holiday working)
Job ref
214-UEC-7391513
Employer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
King's Mill Hospital
Town
Sutton in Ashfield
Salary
£55,690 - £62,682 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
04/09/2025 23:59

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Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Advanced Clinical Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Job overview

Are you an autonomous practitioner with proven expertise across the four pillars of advanced practice—clinical care, education, leadership, and research? We’re looking for a dynamic Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our Emergency Care team and make a real impact.

You’ll assess, treat, and manage a diverse, undifferentiated caseload of patients requiring unscheduled care. Working alongside Medical Staff and fellow ACPs, you’ll rotate through day and evening shifts to support our 24/7 clinical service. You’ll also collaborate with our Emergency Nurse Practitioner (ENP) service, which operates 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, delivering care for minor injuries and illnesses.

You’ll receive clinical supervision, teaching, and training primarily from the Emergency Department/Urgent and Emergency Care Division at Kings Mill Hospital. Rotations between Newark UCC and KMH ED sites will help maintain your skills and support your professional growth.

If you’re ready to take your advanced practice to the next level in a fast-paced, supportive environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Working for our organisation

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. 

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation. 

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands. 

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills and confidence to discuss patient management with other members of the MDT
  • Broad & advanced knowledge of clinical pathophysiology
  • Has a sound level of knowledge in relation to invasive and non invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
  • Ability to take a full systematic focused history
  • Ability to make a diagnosis based on interpretation of imaging and pathology results
  • Has the knowledge to support safe clinical decision making in relation to discharge
  • Proven management skills- effective organisational abilities, supervisory skills, leadership skills, change management skills. Clinical governance, current health service priorities. National and local nursing agenda
  • IT literate
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of more than one area of clinical practice – i.e surgery, medicine, orthopaedics, ITU
  • Health and safety

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered with relevant healthcare professional body (NMC / HCPC / GPC etc)
  • MSc in advanced clinical practice
  • Meet the criteria as outlined by the relevant specialty college or faculty (where applicable)
  • Evidence of on-going personal and professional development
  • ALS provider
  • Non-medical prescriber
Desirable criteria
  • Relevant teaching qualification
  • Evidence of research and audit
  • Ability to perform basic interpretation of CT brain & Skeletal X-ray
  • ALS Instructor

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant post registration experience, most recent of which should be in a senior position OR experience as defined by specialty college/faculty
  • Direct supervision of junior staff
  • Supervision of students
  • Evidence of contribution to audit programmes within practice
  • Evidence of managing complex patients in stressful and emotional situations where lifechanging events are being communicated and clinically managed
  • Relevant teaching/supervising/mentoring experience
  • Evidence of managing acute presentations
  • Clinical diagnostic skills including the ability to interpret as a minimum CXR, and laboratory investigations
  • Professional and patient focused, with a strong commitment to providing high quality care
Desirable criteria
  • Project management

Contractual Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work flexibly within working hours of ward/department

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Denise Wharmby
Job title
Deputy Director of Nursing - Urgent Emergency Care
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07711917021
Additional information

Helen Seacroft

corporate lead for ACP

[email protected]

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