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

Are you a dynamic and patient-focused leader with a passion for developing people and delivering exemplary urgent care services? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!, We are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to act as a clinical leader for our team of practitioners across the East Area Urgent Care units, including the Lewes Urgent Treatment Centre, Uckfield, and Crowborough Minor Injury Units.

This is an exciting time to join our urgent care unit. We have established an Urgent and Emergency Clinical Reference Group to explore ways to improve our staffing models, clinical pathways, training, and supervision. This initiative aims to ensure that all our staff are well-supported, enabling them to provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will:

• Clinically lead and inspire a dedicated team of practitioners.


• Deliver high-quality urgent care services at the heart of the community.


• Support the professional growth and development of your team.


• Play a key role in shaping the future of urgent and emergency care.


We are seeking someone who is ambitious, proactive, and experienced in the urgent/primary care field. If you are looking to take a clinical lead role in a team that prides itself on providing excellent acute care, we would love to hear from you.

Join us in making a meaningful impact on patient care and helping to shape the future of urgent care services in our community.

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