Job overview

The Paediatric Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) in the Emergency Department will play a critical role in providing expert clinical care to children and young people presenting with urgent and emergency conditions. Working within a multidisciplinary team, the ACP will deliver high-quality, evidence-based care, offering advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients within the Paediatric ED.

The role also involves leadership, education, and service development 
responsibilities, with a focus on improving patient outcomes, enhancing team capability, and ensuring that clinical practices meet the latest standards and guidelines. The post-holder will work autonomously and collaboratively with consultants, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to provide a safe, efficient, and child-centred service.

Main duties of the job

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

 At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.