Advanced Clinical Practitioner

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) with North Hampshire Urgent Care (NHUC), you will provide high quality autonomous clinical care to patients with undifferentiated and urgent primary care needs. Working across telephone triage, face‑to‑face consultations and home visits, you’ll assess, diagnose, treat and refer patients within your professional scope, supported by robust clinical pathways and a collaborative multidisciplinary team.

You will use your advanced skills across the four pillars of practice to deliver safe, effective care, contribute to service development, support colleagues, and maintain the highest standards of professional practice. This is a role for a confident, reflective clinician who thrives in fast‑paced environments and is committed to continuous learning and improvement.

The post holder will:

Deliver high quality, safe, effective patient care.

Provide competent, compassionate and responsive care.

Communicate effectively with patients, carers and colleagues.

Integrate underpinning professional knowledge and skills into the NHUC SDC services, providing first contact patient care.

Utilise their clinical experience and knowledge to support other clinicians and non‑clinicians within NHUC.

Please read the JD for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

To work as part of the North Hampshire Urgent Care Same Day Care clinical team across the division, subject to local service inductions.

The post holder will be a qualified, registered, experienced and independent autonomous practitioner who has either completed an MSc in Advanced Practice (or equivalent) and/or can evidence via portfolio route evidence of current working across the four pillars of advanced practice.

The post holder can undertake telephone triage, face‑to‑face consultations and home visits, dealing with unplanned and undifferentiated primary and urgent care needs independently, with a small (limited) exclusion criteria, often caused by professional restrictions.

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, referral and clinical advice to a diverse range of undifferentiated patients with acute and subacute primary and urgent care needs, within their level of competence and scope of practice.

• Autonomously undertake assessment, examination and organise diagnostics as clinically appropriate of acute and subacute primary and urgent care presentations.
• Undertake holistic assessment of wider care needs as appropriate.
• Make direct referrals to primary, secondary and social services within locally agreed pathways, guidance and protocols.
• Work within scope of practice, escalating to colleagues as required within agreed protocols.
• Ensure that patients receive high quality clinical care, delivered in a timely manner.
• Ensure complete and accurate documentation of each and every patient contact.
• Work as part of multi-disciplinary and multi‑agency teams in order to ensure patients’ needs are met.

• Adhere to the appropriate NMC / HCPC / GPC Code of Professional Conduct / Standards and at all times work within the scope of professional practice.
• Ensure that professional practice adheres to organisational policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Maintain a professional manner.
• Maintain confidentiality with regard to information pertaining to patients and staff.
• Ensure that the service interfaces with all other stakeholders in a professional and productive manner, providing an effective service to partner organisations and other service providers.
• Act as a positive role model.

• Communicate effectively with patients and families regarding complex information about their care.
• Provide advice and information to patients, carers and their families where appropriate.
• Communicate effectively and work collaboratively with medical, nursing and allied health professionals to ensure delivery of a co‑ordinated service.
• Ensure accurate documentation record keeping in line with local policies and NMC/HCPC/GPC guidelines.
• Promote and demonstrate effective communication networks within the organisation, with partner organisations and other service providers.