Overview
Advanced Clinical Practitioner – Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital
Job Introduction
Sittingbourne & Sheppey Community Hospitals
Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm | No weekends or bank holidays
We’re looking for an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our multidisciplinary team supporting patients across Sittingbourne and Sheppey Community Hospitals. You’ll work alongside nurses, HCAs, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists to deliver high-quality care for patients with a range of complex health needs — including wound care, diabetes management, and long-term catheter care.
As an ACP, you’ll use your clinical expertise to assess, diagnose, and manage treatment plans for both acute and long-term conditions, ensuring safe, evidence-based care for every patient.
Main Responsibility
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Working autonomously to assess, diagnose, plan, and manage treatment for patients with both acute and long-term conditions
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Providing advanced clinical assessment and decision-making, ensuring safe and effective care within your scope of practice
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Prescribing and reviewing medications in line with national guidelines and local protocols
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Leading on complex wound care, catheter management, and long-term condition support within the community hospital setting
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Collaborating with a multidisciplinary team of nurses, therapists, and support staff to coordinate holistic patient care
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Acting as a clinical leader, supporting and mentoring junior staff and students to promote professional development
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Contributing to service improvement projects and helping shape innovative, patient-centred models of care
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Ensuring all clinical documentation is accurate, timely, and compliant with NMC and organisational standards
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Using clinical systems and Microsoft Office tools to record, monitor, and evaluate patient outcomes effectively
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Upholding the organisation’s values of “care, think, do” through compassionate, evidence-based practice
The Ideal Candidate
We’re looking for an NMC-registered nurse who holds an Advanced Clinical Practitioner qualification at MSc level (or equivalent) and is an independent prescriber (V300 or equivalent). You’ll bring significant experience from a primary care, community care, or urgent care/A&E setting, demonstrating the ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. You should be confident using Microsoft Office and clinical systems, with a proactive, professional approach and a genuine passion for delivering high-quality, patient-centred care.
Package Description
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team in Sittingbourne.
You will feel valued as a Advanced Clinical Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary of £53,755 – £60,504 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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