Band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner- Cardiology
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustBirmingham, West Midlands
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust based in Birmingham. The advertised salary is £57,528 to £64,750. Applications close on 29 October 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
Every day, patients arrive with chest pain, arrhythmias, heart failure symptoms and complex cardiac presentations where expert clinical judgement can ...
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will provide autonomous, evidence-based assessment, diagnosis, treatment and ongoing management for patients presenting with a broad range of acute and chronic cardiovascular conditions.
You will play a key role within the ACP-led direct-access cardiology trolley service, rapidly reviewing referrals from the Emergency Department and Acute Medical Units, initiating appropriate investigations and treatment plans, supporting timely clinical decision-making and helping to prevent avoidable hospital admissions.
Working collaboratively with consultant cardiologists and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will contribute across emergency cardiac assessment, interventional cardiology, heart failure, outpatient and longer-term cardiac care.
Beyond direct clinical practice, you will provide leadership and clinical expertise, support and supervise developing Advanced Clinical Practitioners, contribute to multidisciplinary education and participate in service improvement, audit, quality initiatives and research.
You will be encouraged to develop specialist interests and procedural skills while helping shape safe, effective and patient-centred cardiology pathways across the Directorate.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Essential: - * Professional Healthcare Registration with a UK Regulatory Body ( NMC / HCPC / GPC) ( E ); - * Post Graduate Qualification in specific speciality or equivalent experience ( E); - * MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice/ Level 7 equivalent portfolio or minimum of 120 CATs and working towards full MSc (must cover all 4 Pillars of advanced clinical practice )-- Portfolio must include evidence of health assessment module at Level 7 (E ); - * Non -- Medical Prescribing Course -- where applicable to registration ( E ); - * Advanced Life Support Qualification ( E ); - * Recognised Teaching & Assessing/ Mentoring Qualification /Course(E)
Essential: - * Extensive post registration experience at a senior level (Band 7 or above) in specialty area including significant and relevant senior clinical and leadership experience; - * Evidence / experience of working in an MDT within a health care provider service; - * Evidence of on-going CPD; - * Evidence of teaching in a variety of; - * environments; - * A sound knowledge of professional priorities and issues relating to NHS care provision; - * A knowledgeable clinician with ability to ensure clinical governance is embedded in practice; - * Sound understanding of evidence based practice and its application
Desirable: - * Knowledge of the national and local; - NHS healthcare agenda and its implications
How this role compares
We hold 865 NHS vacancies in West Midlands that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £34,428. This role pays more than about 82% of them.
There are 13,012 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,225 of them in West Midlands.
You have 8 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 46 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has 64 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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