Senior Advanced Practitioner (Band 8b) - Bath

Job Introduction

As a Senior Advanced Practitioner (Band 8b) you will be part of our valued team in our Bath Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 8b 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

Ready to take the next step beyond Advanced Clinical Practice?

We are launching an exciting new cohort of Senior Advanced Practitioners across Bath and North East Somerset, and Swindon.

This brand-new role has been developed for experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioners who want to combine expert clinical practice with leadership, service transformation, workforce development, education and quality improvement. The role has been specifically designed to bridge the gap between Advanced Clinical Practitioner and Consultant Practitioner level practice, offering a unique opportunity to develop consultant-level capabilities whilst maintaining a strong clinical focus.

We offer part-time or full-time flexible working hours

Hours: Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm

Please note: interviews are expected to be held during the week commencing 23 November 2026.

If you are interested or would like further information please contact: Donna Little on donna.little@hcrgcregroup.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

• Deliver highly autonomous, expert clinical practice for patients with complex frailty and long-term conditions.
• Lead complex clinical decision-making and multidisciplinary working.
• Support admission avoidance, rehabilitation and discharge planning.
• Provide professional leadership and visible expert practice within multidisciplinary teams.
• Lead quality improvement, service redesign and pathway development projects.
• Support governance, clinical effectiveness and implementation of evidence-based practice.
• Provide supervision, coaching and development for ACPs and trainee practitioners.
• Contribute to research, audit and innovation activity.

WORKING FOR OUR ORGANISATION

This is an exciting time to join our organisation. We are investing significantly in Advanced Practice and creating opportunities for talented clinicians to build long-term careers within community healthcare.

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

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Registered healthcare professional
• MSc Advanced Clinical Practice, or equivalent
• Independent Prescriber qualification
• Significant autonomous advanced practice experience
• Leadership and service improvement experience
• Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours.

Desirable

• Experience of non-medical prescribing within a frailty, community or long-term conditions setting
• Teaching, mentorship or clinical supervision qualification (e.g. PGCert in Education or equivalent)
• Evidence of leading or contributing to audit, research or service improvement projects
• Experience of working across multi-agency or multidisciplinary community settings

Other requirements:

Willingness to work flexibly across Bath, Chippenham and Swindon.

WHY JOIN US?

• Brand-new Band 8b role
• Full-time and part-time opportunities
• Multiple locations across BSW
• Developmental support from experienced Consultant Practitioners and Advance Practice Lead
• Protected non-clinical development time

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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