Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Acute Stroke
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SOC 2234 (77% match) is an eligible occupation, and CALDERDALE AND HUDDERSFIELD SOLUTIONS LTD is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
We pick the code from the advert's text, so it is our best guess, not the employer's. Each code it could be has its own likelihood:
- Likely 2234 (Registered nurse practitioners) · 77% match
- Likely 2233 (Registered specialist nurses) · 12% match
- Likely 2237 (Other registered nursing professionals) · 6% match
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2234 Registered nurse practitioners Most likely code | £25,000 Clears | £25,000 Clears | £25,000 Clears | £25,000 Clears |
2233 Registered specialist nurses Also possible | £25,000 Clears | £25,000 Clears | £25,000 Clears | £25,000 Clears |
2237 Other registered nursing professionals Also possible | £25,000 Clears | £25,000 Clears | £25,000 Clears | £25,000 Clears |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. A mark is for the top of the advertised pay. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust are seeking an enthusiastic and highly skilled Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join the Acute Stroke Service.
This role is central to the delivery of high-quality hyper acute and acute stroke care, supporting patients across the stroke pathway including Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU), acute stroke wards, and rapid-access Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) clinics.
The ACP will be an experienced, knowledgeable, and autonomous practitioner providing advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management of patients presenting with suspected or confirmed acute stroke and TIA. Advanced practice is underpinned by the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership, education, and research, with a strong focus on direct patient care and service development.
The postholder will join the service during an exciting time of expansion. The expectation will be for the postholder to form part of a weekend rota which may change as more roles are approved and recruited to. A full overview of this in contained in the detailed job description below.
You will be a part of an established ACP community within CHFT. We can offer the following benefits:
Job description
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.
Person specification
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.
About the employer
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.
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with CALDERDALE AND HUDDERSFIELD SOLUTIONS LTD, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
Registered nurse practitioners (SOC 2234) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~91k in sample- Middle half £37,232–52,624
- Median £44,824
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