Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Urgent Care | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

This is a great opportunity to Lead our team of Practitioners as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner for the East Area Urgent Care units at Lewes Urgent Treatment Centre, Uckfield & Crowborough Minor Injury Units.

If you're a dynamic and patient focused leader, with a passion for developing people and supporting the delivery of exemplary urgent care services at the heart of the community, we'd love to hear from you.

We are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to lead the team, so if you're ambitious, proactive, and experienced in the urgent care field & looking to take a lead role in a team that prides itself on providing excellent acute care, then we'd love to hear from you.

In this role, you will develop, utilise, and maintain skills beyond the scope of normal Nurse/AHP Practice, such as advanced physical assessment, diagnostics, and prescribing. These will help you provide urgent care patients with what they need along with supporting the development of a large team of Band 7's in their own development.

You will lead on the strategic development of Trust-wide services in your specialist area, working with other strategic and clinical leads. Alongside this, you will lead and actively participate in education programmes designed to support other clinical staff in skills relating to the speciality.

An element of the role involves providing peer support to clinical staff working with urgent care patients. Insights from this helps you assist in the planning, co-ordinating and development of the service, including the evaluation of any newly implemented service plans.

You will be responsible for insuring that relevant legal and regulatory frameworks are acknowledged through local governance procedures. This involves being a competent research evidence consumer & to contribute to the establishment of protocols and guidelines for the development of the service. In line with this, you will also undertake and support research in the speciality.

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.

We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support


• Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county


• Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options


• Excellent training and development opportunities


• Research opportunities


• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton


• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks


• Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces


• Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)


• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast


• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff