Consultant Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job overview

We are looking for a Consultant ACP to join our Trust supporting site across East and West Kent.

The Consultant Practitioner for Community Hospitals co-leads the medical provision for Community Hospitals, alongside the Consultant Clinical Lead. This includes medical management of community hospital services across east and west Kent; development of the current and future medical model; and participation in service redesign. It would be particularly suitable for a forward thinking, innovative individual seeking an exciting opportunity to help plan and deliver modern dynamic Inpatient Frailty services.

Main duties of the job

You will be a clinical expert in Frailty and will fulfil the 4 domains of Advanced Clinical Practice:

• Advanced and expert level clinical practice within the field of frailty ensuring clinical excellence
• Leadership and consultancy providing expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues
• Development and provision of education and training to other staff and trainees
• Service development, evaluation, research and audit.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application.  We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

It is important to us that all our staff are aligned to our Values and in particular the behaviours we expect from KCHFT managers. With this in mind as part of the selection process for this position you will be asked to complete two other activities in addition to the competency-based interview that you will invited to. This extended selection process is designed to assess your management style and the specific details of the exercises will be given if you are successfully shortlisted. The provisional date of the selection event is 19th May 2025 although this may be subject to change.

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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.