Job summary
- Main area
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 7 day working
- Job ref
- 236-OCO-NM544-25
- Employer
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Royal Oldham Hospital
- Town
- Oldham
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Advanced Clinical Practitioner -Hospital at Home/Virtual Ward
Band 8a
Job overview
Exciting Opportunity – Advanced Clinical Practitioner for Hospital and Care at Home (H&C@H) Team.
Are you a passionate Advanced Clinical Practitioner ready to lead innovative patient care in the community? We’re looking for a dynamic Advanced Clinical practitioner to join our Hospital and Care at Home (H&C@H) team, working alongside a dedicated multidisciplinary group to deliver exceptional services to NHS patients.
You will play a key role in creating a caring environment tailored to patient needs, enhancing their experience, and supporting staff to achieve divisional and trust objectives.
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you’ll assess patients’ needs using evidence-based clinical skills and innovative digital technologies, caring for patients in their own homes. Your responsibilities will include caseload management, care handovers, and driving service development—providing specialist input whenever required
Join us and make a real difference in community healthcare delivery.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a skilled Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our H&C@H team. In this role, you’ll deliver expert care, assessments, and support within a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment, working confidently within established protocols. You’ll manage patient care on the virtual ward, liaising with medical colleagues to assess, adjust treatments, and facilitate timely re-evaluations.
Ensuring seamless care pathways through effective communication, referrals, and collaboration with other agencies and MDT members is essential. You will maintain compliance with professional standards, national guidelines, and trust policies, working within your scope of practice and competencies.
A key part of your role involves contributing to the education and development of team members, sharing your expertise to foster continuous professional growth. Using advanced clinical reasoning, evidence-based practices, and your expert knowledge, you’ll provide specialist advice and support for patients and colleagues, ensuring safe, compassionate, and effective care.
Join us to bring your advanced skills to revolutionise community healthcare delivery—working independently, drawing on your extensive theoretical and practical experience.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters in advanced practice
- Post basic qualification in speciality
- Non medical prescriber V300
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of completing a leadership module/course
Professional registration
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse with Current NMC registration/ Paramedic or AHP with HCPC registration
Knowledge, Training and experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience
- Significant experience within specialty at senior level
- Experience of management
- Evidence of Test of change or QI projects
- Evidence of teaching or mentorship
- Evidence of CPD
- Effective communicator
Desirable criteria
- Clinical experience in the community or primary care
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Evidence of involvement in the development of programmes of care, protocols and clinical audit
- Excellent clinical reasoning/ decision making
- Ability to travel to different geographical locations across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Computer literate
Desirable criteria
- Full UK driving license with willingness to use own car for work purposes
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stephanie Walker
- Job title
- Clinical team lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 778 5342
- Additional information
Nicola Innes- [email protected]
Lorena Hulme- [email protected]
List jobs with Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust in Nursing and Midwifery