Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Post: Advanced Clinical Practitioner Prescriber

Pay: £28.48- £31.73 per hour depending on experience

PLUS, a Golden Hello of £2.5k paid in two instalments over 6 months

(pro rata this applies to EXTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY)

Hours: To be discussed with the candidate.

Accountable to: Head of Service

Reports to: Lancashire Clinical Managers

Closing date: 1st February 2026

Base: The post will be based at Rossendale Minor Injuries Unit (RMIU). The RMIU aims to deliver services between 8am–8pm 7 days a week, 365 days per year. Evening and weekend work will be required as part of this post.

About: Come and join our lively and vibrant team! We are a high-performance team with complementary talents and skills, who consistently show high levels of innovation, focusing on the best quality of care for our patients. We pride ourselves on an open and honest culture and show dedication towards peer support, maximizing individual strength and personality, valuing new ideas to help strengthen and celebrate what a great service we offer!

Come and be a part of our amazing team!

It will be the responsibility of the post holder to exercise clinical expertise, levels of judgment, discretion and decision making in clinical care, as demonstrated under agreed parameters. Provide a high standard of care for patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed minor injury needs. There are development opportunities with training and mentorship in order to extend clinical competencies for the right candidate.

The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health and wellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure that patients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled with excellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremely effective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the ability to strategically visualise, develop, and implement award-winning services.

Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we have a core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of our patients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the service delivery and user experience due to their considerable experience and commitment to what they do.

Come and be a part of our amazing team!

We offer NHS Pension

Cycle to Work Scheme

Attendance Bonus

Free Tea & Coffee

Eye Care Contributions

The post holder will:

• Work with and champion the unit in conjunction with Senior Managerial colleagues
• Support the Management team and Clinical manager to ensure all service KPIs/Targets are met, and looking for improvement over and above the set commissioned targets
• Ensure mandatory training is kept up to date and receive suitable training/CPD for their ongoing development needs
• Practice autonomously, as an independent practitioner, participating in the care of and undertaking assessment, diagnosis, treatment/referral and discharge of patients presenting with minor injury and illness within agreed parameters
• Provide advanced clinical skills and advice demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of a client group whilst working autonomously
• Identify the need for and initiate and interpret relevant diagnostic investigations and results
• Safely and competently undertake invasive and non-invasive procedures to establish a diagnosis
• Be able to independently undertake telephone triage; weekends the RMIU clinicians are required to partake in the CAS (Clinical Assessment Service) telephone triage. Training will be provided
• Work within the parameters of current nurse prescribing legislation
• Monitor and lead improvements to standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence-based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and provision of skilled professional leadership
• Contribute to the Clinical Governance agenda within the service by leading audit and research as part of the multi-disciplinary team within the area of expertise
• Act in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct or other relevant…