Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The closing date is 04 February 2026

An Advanced Clinical Practitioner will provide an autonomous, high quality, patient focused, efficient and comprehensive assessment of patients arriving into urgent care settings within Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This includes the skills of acute assessment, history taking and clinical examination. The post holder will develop the skills and ability to assimilate highly complex strands of information to reach a differential diagnosis, and begin treatment of unselected patients attending the Emergency Department or ambulatory care settings within an agreed scope of practice.

Key roles and responsibilities of the Foundation ACP role are as follows
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• An expert clinical practitioner who leads nursing practice
• A motivated, dynamic practitioner, striving for improvements in care and practice
• An educator, ensuring that staff possess the required knowledge and skills and competency for safe, effective care
• Have the authority and accountability to act
• Accountable for quality governance within own area of practice
• Ensuring that care is based and planned on an individual assessment for a positive patient and carer experience
• Acting as a role model and expert nurse provide support and guidance for all staff delivering care to patients

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. Our mission is to provide safe, compassionate, and clinically excellent patient care, by being an outstanding employer for our people. We have entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital and have become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values:

• Compassion
• Respect
• Integrity
• Courageous
• Accountable

• At all times act as a professional role model using appropriate language to address patients and following Trust standards in care delivery
• Champion patient centred care planning ensuring staff understand their role in building relationships with individual patients and accept the Key Nurse role
• Uphold NMC code and standards, including record keeping and medicines management
• Be visible and available for patients and carers to discuss care plan and/or concerns
• Build an effective team
• To be working towards autonomously assessing and treating patients with highly complex clinical needs within the majors stream of the emergency department and the ambulatory care area
• Able to communicate effectively in difficult and sensitive situations with patients and their carers
• Able to use alternative methods of communication in highly complex situations to gain information required to reach a differential diagnosis and treatment plan
• Able to assimilate highly complex strands of information autonomously to reach a differential diagnosis, order appropriate investigations and begin first line treatments in line with local and national guidelines
• Able to assimilate highly complex information and use own skills and judgment to order appropriate investigations and developing the ability to prescribe and commence first line treatments for unselected patients in the majors stream of the Emergency Department and Ambulatory Care
• Have the skills of analysis to re-asses patients to judge effectiveness of prescribed treatments and interpret results of investigations in complex cases
• Deals with patients and their relatives in highly sensitive situations, developing skills of analysis and judgment to ensure best practice and outcomes
• To be developing the skills to autonomously assimilate and interpret complex information to reach clinical decisions on referring patients on to other specialties or be able to safely discharge home
• To present patients case to senior medical colleague with all relevant information in a structured and professional manner to enable discharge of patients home and provide written information for community services about this episode of care and any ongoing treatment/investigations required
• Use advanced clinical skills i.e suturing, midline insertion and arterial…