Consultant Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job overview

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.

We are seeking an exceptional Consultant Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Frailty to join our West Kent Home Treatment Service (HTS) and provide senior clinical leadership across our Frailty Virtual Ward and Urgent Community Response pathways. You will work alongside existing Consultant Practitioners as a senior clinical decision maker, supporting safe, high‑quality care seven days a week.

Our mission is simple: “We ask people living with frailty what they want from healthcare and strive to deliver it.” You will play a central role in achieving this by leading a service that provides rapid assessment, diagnostics and treatment for people with complex needs, long‑term conditions and frailty. The HTS and UCR teams operate across multiple bases in East and West Kent, delivering urgent assessments within two hours or the same day, helping to prevent avoidable hospital admissions and supporting people to remain safely at home.

This is an exciting time to join us as the service expands, offering the opportunity to shape frailty care across West Kent and influence system‑wide improvement.

Main duties of the job

As a Consultant ACP in Frailty, you will be a recognised clinical expert, practising at an advanced level and managing patients with undifferentiated and complex presentations from admission to discharge. You will exercise high levels of clinical judgement, autonomy and decision‑making, providing senior oversight across the service.

You will deliver the four pillars of Consultant‑level practice: • Expert clinical practice – ensuring excellence in frailty assessment and management • Strategic leadership – offering expert advice to colleagues, patients and carers • Learning and development – providing education, supervision and training across the system • Research and innovation – leading service development, evaluation, audit and quality improvement

You will work closely with the Integrated Care Management MDT and wider system partners to deliver proactive, person‑centred care. This role offers the opportunity to influence service design, drive innovation and improve outcomes for people living with frailty across West Kent.

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. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) 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.

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