Advanced Clinical Practitioner Lead in Frailty

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner with a strong interest in frailty care to join our established multidisciplinary team delivering care within our community hospitals.

This role combines advanced clinical practice with clinical leadership; you will provide line management and professional supervision for the ACPs working within the service together with leading and coordinating the educational supervision of trainee ACPs.

You will provide advanced clinical care to patients with frailty, applying expert clinical reasoning and collaborative decision-making. You will contribute to the Trust-wide ACP strategy and frailty pathway development alongside supporting business planning, service redesign and efficiency initiatives.

This role offers variety, challenge and the opportunity to shape pathways as the service continues to grow.

If you're passionate about frailty, thrive in complex clinical environments and want to be part of a service that's evolving fast, this is the opportunity for you.

Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010 where required.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide autonomous advanced clinical care to frail older adults admitted to community hospital wards across 6 community hospital sites. They will provide line management, professional leadership and clinical supervision for the Advanced Clinical Practitioners in the Community Hospitals.

The post holder will provide leadership and oversight to ensure Advanced Clinical Practitioners maintain professional standards and appropriate evidence for revalidation in line with national frameworks.

The post holder will lead and coordinate the educational supervision of trainee Advance Clinical Practitioners, supporting staff with educational programmes.

The post holder will lead or support frailty-related audits, service evaluation and quality improvement, using outcome data to improve patient safety and experience.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.