Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Band 8a
| Posting date: | 24 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £55,690.00 to £62,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 March 2026 |
| Location: | Gloucestershire, GL1 3NN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9318-26-0165 |
Summary
Clinical Responsibilities/Key Responsibilities Act as a clinical expert in a specific area of direct contact care, able to make high level skills decisions, informed by advanced diagnostic, assessment and treatment skills. To be responsible and accountable for own decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice Demonstrate a critical understanding of their broadened level of responsibility and autonomy and the limits of own competence and professional scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty and incomplete information Critically reflects on their own practice and acknowledges limitations in knowledge, referring to senior clinicians when scope of practice is reached To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat patients resulting in the safe management of patients Able to use decision making skills to inform clinical reasoning approaches to manage differentiated and undifferentiated presentations and complex situations to make evidence-based judgements To assess the effectiveness of interventions and advise ongoing management or refer on to appropriate clinical specialists if necessary Develop scope of advanced clinical skills and practice to meet changing needs of service Prescribe, supply and /or administer medication within appropriate legal frameworks and Trust guidance. Facilitate expert inter-professional care for the patient pathway and their dependants by direction, supervision and example Critically apply advanced clinical expertise in appropriate facilitator ways to provide consultancy across professional and service boundaries, influencing clinical practice to enhance quality, reduce unwarranted Work in all areas of the ED, minors, majors, paediatrics and the resuscitation areavariation and promote the sharing and adoption of best practice Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient records Evaluate own practice, participate in multi-disciplinary service and team evaluation and engage in peer review Manage daily patient caseload in a specific area of advanced clinical practice