Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner Emergency
The closing date is 28 November 2025
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our dynamic and well-established Emergency Department team. This role offers an excellent pathway for motivated clinicians looking to take the next step in their career, developing advanced clinical skills within a fast-paced and supportive environment.
You will be fully supported through a comprehensive training programme, combining academic study with hands-on clinical experience. Working alongside experienced ACPs, consultants, nurses, and the wider multidisciplinary team, you'll gain the expertise and confidence to deliver high-quality, patient-centred emergency care. If you're passionate about advancing your clinical practice, eager to learn, and ready to become part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, we'd love to hear from you.
Once you commence into a trained ACP role, you will then be required to cover a 24/7 rota in line with service need and working requirements.
In both your training post and trained post, irrelevant of base, you will be required to work cross site.
Main duties of the job
- Deliver and participate in the clinical care of patients attending the Emergency Department and inpatients of the Trust
- Prioritise health needs and intervenes appropriately
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within Trust policies and the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct (2008) or Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Provide a level of advanced and comprehensive health assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge.
About us
This post will work for The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust covering both RSH and PRH sites .
Our aim at SaTH is to empower colleagues at all levels to have the confidence, capability, passion and knowledge, to test changes and make improvements at SaTH and the communities we serve.
There is an expectation that you will successfully complete your training programme in 3 years. You will be supported with 15 hours non clinical time per week and required to work clinically 22.5 hours per week for years 1 and 2, subject to change dependent on clinical and academic requirements. These will be between Monday - Friday 0900-1700 hours whilst in years 1 and 2 but subject to change when on rotation to other areas outside of Emergency. In year 3, you will be expected to work 37.5 hours in clinical practice. Once you have completed all of your internal competences and academic study/exams successfully, you will undergo a sign off appraisal to progress to a Band 8a Trained ACP role if all of the above are met.
Details
Date posted
14 November 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum/pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
223-TAC-847
Job locations
The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and The Princess Royal Hospital, Telford
Mytton Oak Road
Shrewsbury
SY3 8XQ
Employer details
Employer name
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Address
The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and The Princess Royal Hospital, Telford
Mytton Oak Road
Shrewsbury
SY3 8XQ
Employer's website
http://www.sath.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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