# Frailty Advanced Clinical Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/frailty-advanced-clinical-practitioner/bec5c69b-16c5-4d48-809a-b33f506ffaca - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/frailty-advanced-clinical-practitioner/bec5c69b-16c5-4d48-809a-b33f506ffaca.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** Aylesbury - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 pa - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (nights and weekends) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-29T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-15T12:51:43.789Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Buckinghamshire/Aylesbury/Buckinghamshire_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Advanced_Care_Practitioner/Advanced_Care_Practitioner-v8016017 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8016017?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview ### The opportunity has arisen to be part of our expanding multi-disciplinary frailty team and to have the opportunity to provide autonomous clinical support to the care of patients undertaking frailty health assessments: diagnoses, treating, and discharging patients within their own competence. ### Main duties of the job ### The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) will provide expert care and treatment to patients within agreed protocols and clinical guidelines. However, the ACP also has the ability to make decisions outside these frameworks, where necessary based on best practice. ### The postholder will also be expected to rotate between our acute site at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, covering front door services across our emergency floor and at our community sites at Amersham and Buckingham Hospitals, supporting with care delivery oversight within the community in-patient ward and undertaking independent outpatient clinics linked to Inter-Neighbourhood Teams providing proactive as well as preventative care for frail patients. ### The Trust operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and the post holder will be required to work flexibly to accommodate a developing 24hr frailty model of care. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert. If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application. If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on \[email protected\] quoting the vacancy reference number. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Substantial post-registration experience and three years’ experience working at band 7 or equivalent. - Experience in complex case management. - Experience working with older people and long-term conditions. - Experience working independently at Advanced Practice level - Excellent clinical acumen and practical procedural skills (with evidence of competency and capability) as an independent practitioner, as per Job Description for role - Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge and experience of clinical examination, history taking, pharmacology, pathophysiology, etc. - Experience of instigating and interpreting investigations and initiating appropriate plans of care for patients. - Experience of multi-agency / multi-disciplinary team working across service interfaces. **Desirable** - Evidence of teaching and sharing knowledge with others in the MDT or externally to organisation. - Demonstration of leadership in clinical practice - Evidence of involvement of audit/quality improvement/successful change management ### Special Circumstances **Essential** - Ability to travel cross site and to community settings. - Ability to work internal rotation, involving 24/7 cover. - Enhanced level DBS ### Skills, Abilities & Knowledge **Essential** - Excellent effective verbal and written communication skills - Highly motivated and have the ability to motivate others - Ability to effectively prioritise workload - Ability to educate and clinical supervise others in the promotion of high standards of patient care - Commitment to training and continuous development of self and others - Ability to appraise evidence, using analytical and problem-solving skills to inform decision-making, and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands **Desirable** - Demonstrable evidence of research capability or the application of research evidence to own clinical practice - Ability to communicate highly complex information situations including where there are barriers to understanding - Ability to identify, develop and implement risk management and clinical governance systems at an expert level. - Computer literate – word, excel, PowerPoint ### Education Qualifications & Training **Essential** - First-level degree (HEI Level 5 or 6) or equivalent in the undergraduate base profession - NMC or HCPC registration - Masters in Advanced Practice or equivalent, which maps across the 4 pillars - Accreditation as an Advanced Practitioner of willingness to work towards (including NHSE digital badge) - Qualified as a non-medical prescriber (if able under professional registration - Evidence of continuing professional development. (including further level 7 modules that support practice) **Desirable** - Post-graduate management and/or leadership training - Qualification in teaching ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 232.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10457062) - [functional requirements form (pdf, 184.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10457063) - [frailty advanced clinical practitioner ps (pdf, 336.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10302460) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.