ACRT Practitioner - Enhanced Level, Band 7

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, highly motivated and dynamic professional to join our friendly Acute Care Response Team (ACRT) at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

We have created a new job role within our experienced team of Advanced Practitioners and are now recruiting for the position of ACRT Practitioner - Enhanced Level.

Enhanced practice is delivered by experienced, registered health care professionals. It is a level of practice characterised by those working with autonomy and working independently in complex areas and managing day to day risks. Enhanced level practice can be a precursor or preparation for advanced level practice but equally it can be valued as a role destination in itself (NHSe 2024).

Complex clinical decision making is needed but may be supported by an overall plan from specialist or advanced clinicians in the area. The ACRT Practitioner provides high quality, individualised clinical management for patients who are acutely unwell or at risk of deterioration.

Applications are welcome from individuals who do not meet the essential criteria for a qualified enhanced practitioner but are committed to undertaking an accredited education programme. The successful candidate will be supported with completion of the required competencies and capabilities.

If there are a significant number of applicants we reserve the right to close applications early.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant would demonstrate a high level of professional standards; they will be a role model and will work autonomously whilst demonstrating the core trust values. The key duties of the job include:

- Assessment and management of deteriorating patients using clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning skills to determine and initiate changes to treatment as necessary. This covers all adult in patient areas.

-Key team member of the clinical emergency teams within the trust. We are Advanced Life Support providers therefore excellent leadership qualities are required for this exciting and varied role.

- Provide advice, support and education to medical, nursing and AHP staff.

- If qualified to do so prescribe medication appropriately for specific groups of patients, following Trust guidance where appropriate.

- Work with ACRT Advanced Practitioners to deliver educational programs for staff locally.

- Act as clinical role model / educator for developing and delivering care that is responsive to changing requirements

- Provide a timely, holistic discharge review of patients transitioning from critical care to the wards. In addition, supporting the wards with tracheostomy and laryngectomy patients.

- The ACRT are the responding team to Martha's Rule, a major patient safety initiative providing patients and families with a way to seek a clinical review if their loved ones condition deteriorates.

About us

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust operates hospitals on our two main sites in Cheltenham and Gloucester, and we're one of the largest NHS trusts in the country.

Our workforce of almost 9,000 staff provides high-quality emergency, elective and specialist care across a range of clinical areas

It is expected that all employees uphold the values of the organisation as our values underpin everything we do and describe the way we expect our staff to behave towards our patients, families and carers and between each other.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.

76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.

81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

Details

Date posted

12 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year (pro rata if part time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

318-25-T0640

Job locations

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Gloucestershire

GL1 3NN

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