Bank Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) - Swindon

Package Description

As an Bank Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team in our Hospital at Home service based at in either Swindon or BaNES localities, you will provide acute hospital‑level care to patients across the locality.

• £32.15 an hour
• Self-booking and access to all bank shifts! Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
• Request a Duty – Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
• HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream - which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
• Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
• Opportunities to work in different areas and various different services to gain new knowledge and experience
• Access to our Strive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
• Access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
• Free statutory and mandatory training, as well as access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills and in-house opportunities continuing your professional development
• Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
• Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
• 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

Job Introduction

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Hospital at Home team as an Bank Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) based at in either Swindon or BaNES localities, you will provide acute hospital‑level care to patients across the locality.. You will be delivering acute, hospital‑level care to patients across BSW in the place they feel most comfortable: their own home.

Working at the forefront of modern healthcare, you will use your advanced clinical expertise to support patients who are either stepping up from community services or stepping down from an acute hospital setting. This innovative service bridges the gap between acute and community care, bringing together multidisciplinary expertise to deliver consistent, high‑quality treatment across all pathways.

Our Virtual Ward supports patients who would traditionally require hospital admission, instead enabling them to receive timely clinical review, remote monitoring, and holistic multidisciplinary care at home. This role offers the chance to make a real difference, reducing hospital stays while improving patient experience and outcomes.

You will be part of a forward‑thinking, compassionate team who share a passion for delivering safe, effective, and patient‑centred care, while shaping the future of Hospital at Home services.

you are interested or would like further information please contact: Rachel Scott on rachel.scott@hcrgcaregroup.com or Emma Williams on emma.williams@hcrgcaregroup.com

Recruitment Advisor: Louise Ledward on 07884 659608 or louise.ledward@hcrgcaregroup.com

We are happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Main Responsibilities

As an Bank Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP), you will deliver a clinically autonomous service across Urgent Crisis Response, admission avoidance, frailty and Virtual Ward (Hospital at Home) pathways. Using advanced clinical expertise, you will assess, diagnose and manage patients with acute and complex needs, helping to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and support safe, timely discharge.

You will apply advanced clinical reasoning to request and interpret investigations, initiate and review treatment plans, prescribe where appropriate, and monitor clinical and remote monitoring data to identify and respond to deterioration. Working collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team, you will develop and review personalised care plans that enable patients to receive high‑quality acute care at home.

You will provide clinical leadership and act as a senior decision‑maker and role model, practising in line with the four pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice and NMC or HCPC standards. The role requires flexibility to travel across Wiltshire and contribute to a 7‑day service (07:00–22:00). While based in North Wiltshire, you may be required to work across other localities as the service evolves.

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Registered with the NMC or HCPC
• Accredited Advanced Clinical Practice qualification
• Non‑medical prescriber qualification
• Significant experience in frailty, elderly care, community services or acute care interfaces
• Proven experience managing complex clinical caseloads and working autonomously at an advanced level
• Demonstrable leadership and supervision experience within multidisciplinary teams
• Clean driving licence, Car driver, access to a vehicle for daily use

Desirable

• Master’s degree
• Advanced Clinical Practice Digital Badge
• Experience working in Hospital at Home, Virtual Ward or Urgent Care services

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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