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Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Acute Stroke

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Halifax, HX3 0PWView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£57,528 to £64,750

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

1 November 2026

13 days left

Job description

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust are seeking an enthusiastic and highly skilled Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join the Acute...

Work closely with the Stroke Consultant team, stroke nursing team, therapists, radiology, and emergency services to provide safe, effective, and timely care to patients with suspected or confirmed stroke and TIA across HASU, acute stroke wards, and outpatient settings.
Undertake advanced clinical assessment for patients presenting with acute neurological deficits, including differentiation between stroke, TIA, and stroke mimics.
Act as an autonomous practitioner within agreed scope, providing expert clinical decision-making in complex, time-critical situations.
Hold direct responsibility for a caseload of acute stroke and TIA patients, ensuring evidence-based care plans, escalation where required, and effective discharge planning.
Support the hyper acute stroke pathway, including:
Initial assessment and prioritisation
Coordination of urgent imaging
Support for thrombolysis and thrombectomy pathways
Ongoing monitoring and escalation of clinical deterioration
Undertake independent prescribing to optimise secondary stroke prevention and symptom management in line with national and local guidelines.
Accurately request and interpret radiological and pathology investigations relevant to acute stroke and TIA management.
Provide advanced clinical care for patients attending TIA / rapid-access stroke clinics, including risk stratification, initiation of secondary prevention, and onward referral.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities, change the text to Please see the job description and person specification below for full details about the role.

If youre interested in applying or would like to learn more about working in our team, wed be happy to hear from you.

Please contact the vacancy lead listed in the Further details / informal visits section.

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

QUALIFICATIONS/TRAINING

Essential

Registered general nurse or Allied health care professional
Teaching/Assessment, Mentoring qualification
Previous experience of formal/informal teaching of patients and staff

Desirable: - Masters in Advanced Practice or equivalent; - Non Medical Prescriber

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

Essential

Extensive experience in stroke, neurosciences, or acute medicine relevant to stroke services
Experience in working as an autonomous practitioner within a specialty
Knowledge of the key professional issues and NMC/AHP guidelines related to professional practice
Evidence of being able to work across organisational boundaries
Experience of applying research evidence to clinical practice.
Evidence of continuing professional development.
Commitment to maintain own fitness for practice through maintaining a personal profile of competencies (profile)

Desirable: - Demonstrates up to date knowledge and expertise of Advanced Practice; - Working knowledge of acute stroke pathways, HASU processes and secondary prevention

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES):

Essential

Demonstrate a clear vision of the role and service
Ability to initiate sustain and evaluate change.
Demonstrates skilled written and verbal communication, presentation and decision making skills.