Senior Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Emergency Medicine
| Posting date: | 23 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,972 - £68,525 p.a. pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 22 January 2026 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB2 0QQ |
| Company: | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7694731/180-C-257312 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The Opportunity
Are you an experienced, fully qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner, with RCEM Credentialling, looking to shape the future of emergency care? Addenbrooke’s Hospital is recruiting a Senior ACP to take on a pivotal leadership role within our Emergency Department.
Lead the Future
This is more than a clinical role; it is an opportunity to lead and inspire a growing team of Advanced Practitioners. You will play a key strategic role in the design, operational management, and future development of our ACP service, helping us define what excellence looks like in modern emergency medicine.
Advance Your Practice
While leadership is central to this post, your clinical practice and growth is a priority. You will be supported to further develop your high-level decision-making and autonomy, working alongside our senior medical colleagues to manage complex presentations.
Who Should Apply
This post is open to existing, fully qualified ACPs with significant experience in emergency care. If you have the vision to lead a team and the clinical expertise to set the standard, this is your chance to make a lasting impact at one of the UK’s leading teaching hospitals.
The post holder will be responsible for the line management of the ACP team within Emergency Medicine while having clinical responsibilities within these services. They will focus on all aspects of workforce growth and management including education, financial oversight, rostering, and service delivery.
The post holder will be an advanced clinician with excellent interpersonal and communication skills and clinical attributes, enabling him/her to provide expert clinical and professional support to other clinicians and staff.
The post holder will have a 60% service delivery component to their role at an advanced level. The remaining 40% of the role will be dedicated to the delivery of line management, governance, workforce development, and training, for trainee ACPs and ACP development.
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start
For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 30 December 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 12 January 2026
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Dec 2025
The Opportunity
Are you an experienced, fully qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner, with RCEM Credentialling, looking to shape the future of emergency care? Addenbrooke’s Hospital is recruiting a Senior ACP to take on a pivotal leadership role within our Emergency Department.
Lead the Future
This is more than a clinical role; it is an opportunity to lead and inspire a growing team of Advanced Practitioners. You will play a key strategic role in the design, operational management, and future development of our ACP service, helping us define what excellence looks like in modern emergency medicine.
Advance Your Practice
While leadership is central to this post, your clinical practice and growth is a priority. You will be supported to further develop your high-level decision-making and autonomy, working alongside our senior medical colleagues to manage complex presentations.
Who Should Apply
This post is open to existing, fully qualified ACPs with significant experience in emergency care. If you have the vision to lead a team and the clinical expertise to set the standard, this is your chance to make a lasting impact at one of the UK’s leading teaching hospitals.
The post holder will be responsible for the line management of the ACP team within Emergency Medicine while having clinical responsibilities within these services. They will focus on all aspects of workforce growth and management including education, financial oversight, rostering, and service delivery.
The post holder will be an advanced clinician with excellent interpersonal and communication skills and clinical attributes, enabling him/her to provide expert clinical and professional support to other clinicians and staff.
The post holder will have a 60% service delivery component to their role at an advanced level. The remaining 40% of the role will be dedicated to the delivery of line management, governance, workforce development, and training, for trainee ACPs and ACP development.
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start
For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 30 December 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 12 January 2026
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Dec 2025