Qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner

This Advanced Clinical Practitioner role sits within the Leeds Institute of Emergency Surgery at St Jamess Hospital, part of Leeds Teaching Hospitals, one of the largest acute Trusts in the UK. You will be at the forefront of emergency surgical care, assessing and managing patients with acute presentations, formulating clinical decisions, and delivering safe, personalised care. Working as part of a dynamic, multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in patient flow and service delivery across the Surgical Division, while also contributing to audit, research, and quality improvement initiatives that shape and enhance our services. We are looking for a motivated ACP with a completed MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice and a strong background in surgical care, who is confident, organised, and able to work autonomously within a fast-paced environment. You will bring excellent clinical reasoning, leadership, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to support and influence nursing, medical, and surgical colleagues. In return, youll gain the opportunity to develop within a progressive, supportive team that values innovation, continuous learning, and high standards of patient care.

Main duties of the job

Practice as an autonomous professional in a self-directed manner, with confidence, authority and expertise, undertaking comprehensive range of clinical procedures. Have direct responsibility for patient caseload, ensuring all patients have an accurate plan of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporate the issues and recommendations made. Initiate pharmacological intervention, using non-medical prescribing and working within the multi disciplinary team. Use professional judgement in managing complex and unpredictable care events and capture the learning from these experiences to improve patient care and service delivery. Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries and proactively develop and sustain new partnerships and networks to influence and improve health, outcomes and healthcare delivery systems. Develop practice appropriate to patient and service need through understanding the implications of new emergency research , technology , health inequalities and professional trends and developments. Be involved proactively in developing strategies and undertaking activities that monitor and improve the quality of healthcare and the effectiveness of their own and others practice. Please see the attached

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About us

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.

Job responsibilities

For questions about this job, contact:

Kate Varley

Lead ACP

Kate.varley@nhs.net

01132067295

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Job Summary

This Advanced Clinical Practitioner role sits within the Leeds Institute of Emergency Surgery at St James's Hospital, part of Leeds Teaching Hospitals, one of the largest acute Trusts in the UK. You will be at the forefront of emergency surgical care, assessing and managing patients with acute presentations, formulating clinical decisions, and delivering safe, personalised care. Working as part of a dynamic, multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in patient flow and service delivery across the Surgical Division, while also contributing to audit, research, and quality improvement initiatives that shape and enhance our services.

We are looking for a motivated ACP with a completed MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice and a strong background in surgical care, who is confident, organised, and able to work autonomously within a fast-paced environment. You will bring excellent clinical reasoning, leadership, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to support and influence nursing, medical, and surgical colleagues. In return, you'll gain the opportunity to develop within a progressive, supportive team that values innovation, continuous learning, and high standards of patient care.

Why you should join our Team

Joining the Emergency General Surgery (EGS) team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals offers the opportunity to work within a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment that sits at the heart of ac