Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) - Paulton

Job summary
As an 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. Band 8a AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions. 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.

Main duties of the job
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join the HCRG Care Group Inpatient Unit team. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a supportive multidisciplinary environment, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across our community inpatient services. Based at Paulton Memorial Hospital, you will provide advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management for patients requiring inpatient care. Working autonomously within your scope of practice, you will play a key role in supporting patient recovery and facilitating safe, effective care. You will provide advanced clinical care to patients within our community inpatient rehabilitation services, primarily based at Paulton Memorial Hospital, with occasional cross-cover support at St Martins Hospital. You will assess newly admitted patients, formulate diagnoses and management plans, request and interpret investigations, and deliver high-quality, patient-centred care that supports rehabilitation and recovery. Working autonomously within your scope of practice, you will manage complex clinical presentations and respond to acute health concerns that arise during a patient's inpatient stay. You will work closely with Consultant Geriatricians, specialist doctors, nursing teams, and therapists, contributing to ward rounds, multidisciplinary team meetings, and decision-making to ensure safe, effective, and coordinated care. You will play a key role in discharge planning, referring patients to specialist services when appropriate and ensuring effective communication with GPs, relatives, and carers regarding significant changes in a patient's condition. You will also complete accurate discharge summaries, including medication information, treatment recommendations, and ongoing care plans to support a smooth transition back into the community. In addition, you will uphold the highest standards of clinical practice while contributing to clinical audit, quality improvement initiatives, and service development projects. You will maintain your professional development through mandatory training, appraisal, and revalidation activities, joining a compassionate and forward-thinking team dedicated to achieving the best possible outcomes for patients in our local community.

About us
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.

Job responsibilities
Package Description:
As an 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.

• Band 8a AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• 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 the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join the HCRG Care Group Inpatient Unit team. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a supportive multidisciplinary environment, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across our community inpatient services.

Based at Paulton Memorial Hospital , you will provide advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management for patients requiring inpatient care. Working autonomously within your scope of practice, you will play a key role in supporting patient recovery and facilitating safe, effective care.

If you are interested or would like further information please contact: Rachel Green on View email address on meeveem.com or Helen Hunt on View email address on meeveem.com.

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

Location: Paulton Memorial Hospital
Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Main Responsibilities
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner , you will provide advanced clinical care to patients within our community inpatient rehabilitation services, primarily based at Paulton Memorial Hospital , with occasional cross-cover support at St Martins Hospital . You will assess newly admitted patients, formulate diagnoses and management plans, request and interpret investigations, and deliver high-quality, patient-centred care that supports rehabilitation and recovery.

Working autonomously within your scope of practice, you will manage complex clinical presentations and respond to acute health concerns that arise during a patient's inpatient stay. You will work closely with Consultant Geriatricians, specialist doctors, nursing teams, and therapists, contributing to ward rounds, multidisciplinary team meetings, and decision-making to ensure safe, effective, and coordinated care.

You will play a key role in discharge planning, referring patients to specialist services when appropriate and ensuring effective communication with GPs, relatives, and carers regarding significant changes in a patient's condition. You will also complete accurate discharge summaries, including medication information, treatment recommendations, and ongoing care plans to support a smooth transition back into the community.

In addition, you will uphold the highest standards of clinical practice while contributing to clinical audit, quality improvement initiatives, and service development projects. You will maintain your professional development through mandatory training, appraisal, and revalidation activities, joining a compassionate and forward-thinking team dedicated to achieving the best possible outcomes for patients in our local community.

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
• Nonmedical 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

• Masters 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.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered with the NMC or HCPC. Accredited Advanced Clinical Practice qualification. Nonmedical 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.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: HCRG Care Group
Address: HCRG Care Group, Somerset, BS39 7SB, United Kingdom
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Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Recruitment Team, HCRG Care Group, View email address on meeveem.com

Details
Date posted: 15 September 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 1551574807
Job locations: HCRG Care Group, Somerset, BS39 7SB, United Kingdom

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