Band 8b Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Cardiac Surgery

Overview

Band 8b Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Cardiac Surgery

The closing date is 12 October 2025

Cardiac Surgery at QEHB is seeking a dynamic, adaptable, and diligent individual for a leadership role to drive the department forwards. The Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner role will oversee a team of ACPs and SCPs working between the ward and theatres, managing elective, urgent, and emergent activity.

QEHB Cardiac Surgery is a tertiary and quaternary surgical centre offering treatment across a broad spectrum of sub-speciality work including aortic, coronary, mitral, ACHD, carcinoid, and transplantation. The footprint of cardiac services at QEHB span a cardiac surgical ward, cardiology ward, CCU, ITU, one emergency and two elective theatres.

Key aspects of this role include service delivery planning and strategy, rota and resource management, training, reporting, and governance for both the ACP and SCP teams.

Main duties of the job

Role will include clinical care.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

Role will include clinical care.
Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description

Person Specification Qualifications

• Professional Healthcare Registration with a UK Regulatory Body (NMC / HCPC / GPhC)
• Post Graduate Qualification in specific speciality or equivalent experience
• MSc or Level 7 equivalent portfolio of 180 CATs (Must cover all 4 Pillars of advanced clinical practice) Portfolio must include evidence of health assessment module at Level 7
• Independent Supplementary Prescribing where applicable to registration
• Advanced Life Support Qualification
• PhD
• Honorary contract / link with HEI

Experience

• Substantial autonomous practice working as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in a multi professional practice setting as part of a multi-disciplinary team within the required speciality
• Evidence of on-going CPD relevant to the role / professional regulation
• Meets Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) / HCPC / regulatory standards for student supervision and assessment
• Cardiac surgery experience
• Evidence of experience within high dependency or intensive care
• CALS
• Experience with management and removal of chest drain and temporary pacemaker wires
• Experience in developing and implementing governance / safety frameworks to support service and quality delivery, improvement and sustainability including learning from incidents or quality assurance audits/ patient and carer feedback and National policy
• Evidence of teaching in a variety of
• Experience resource manager with experience in staff / performance & management and financial control mechanisms
• 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
• Knowledge of the national and local NHS healthcare agenda and its implications
• Can demonstrate a working knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, the concept of Clinical Governance, Quality Improvement and evidence-based practice associate with the portfolio.
• Evidence of publication in healthcare journals and presentation at conferences
• Experience in creating/supporting service delivery change. It would be advantageous to have insight into HICARE settings.
• Experience with valvular +/- aortic +/- transplant +/= carconoid sub-specialty
• Cardiac / thoracic ultrasound competency

Additional Criteria

• Advanced Clinical Assessment/ Practice skills
• Highly developed communication, influencing and negotiating skills (verbal, nonverbal and written)
• Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
• Able to use initiative and make decisions supported by agreed standards
• Demonstrable effective time management and work organisation skills within autonomous practice to prioritise tasks and duties required to undertake the role consistently
• Evidence of experience in research/audit processes and application
• Evidence of dissemination of knowledge in wider healthcare organisations
• Ability to influence, motivate and lead teams of staff in an open and transparent management style.
• Skilled in investigator of clinical and non-clinical incidents / care omissions and disciplinary investigations utilising root cause analysis techniques
• Ability to work well under pressure in a complex care environment
• Awareness of own limitations to practice and competence within the role
• Demonstrable structured approach to continuing professional development

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust