# Frailty Advanced Clinical Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/frailty-advanced-clinical-practitioner/f5efcf88-fd66-471d-a298-5e9c28c2cfe0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/frailty-advanced-clinical-practitioner/f5efcf88-fd66-471d-a298-5e9c28c2cfe0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Frailty Office - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £59,798 - £67,020 per annum incl HCAS - **Contract type:** 10 months (This is a fixed term contract for 10 months. End date is 13th June 2027.) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift work - Mondays to Sundays inclusive of Bank holidays. No night shifts) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-19T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-12T14:50:52.400Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Surrey/Surrey/Frimley_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Frailty_Advanced_Clinical_Practitioner/Frailty_Advanced_Clinical_Practitioner-v8188658 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8188658?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.fhft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced and highly skilled clinician with a passion for improving outcomes for people living with frailty? We are seeking a motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our dynamic Integrated Frailty Liaison Team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across the Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS), supporting the most vulnerable members of our community. This role is fixed term until June 2027. ### About the Role As a Frailty ACP, you will spend the majority of your time (minimum 90%) in direct, autonomous clinical practice, managing a cohort of patients with complex frailty needs. You will work across organisational boundaries to provide seamless, coordinated care that promotes independence, prevents unnecessary hospital admissions, and supports timely discharge. You will also provide clinical leadership and support to colleagues, helping to shape and develop the service in line with best practice and local population needs. ### About the Service The Integrated Frailty Liaison Team delivers a responsive, safe and effective service, designed around the needs of the local community. Working collaboratively across acute, community and primary care settings, the team focuses on: - Urgent and proactive case management - Supporting self-care and independence - Delivering a co-produced approach with patients, carers and service users - Reducing avoidable admissions and improving patient flow ### Main duties of the job - To work alongside the Consultant Practitioner, Consultant Geriatricians, Head of Nursing, Lead Nurses, Head of Therapies, Matrons and external partners to further develop Frailty pathways, including the acute Frailty service in ED, inpatient frailty liaison, community integrated care teams, nursing homes and with the Frimley Health and Care ICS. - To provide expert high-quality person-centred care which always considers people's safety, privacy and dignity using advanced clinical knowledge that is evidence based. - As part of a MDT, to practice autonomously, whilst being accountable and self-directed in-line with their relevant code of professional practice. - To undertake Comprehensive specialist holistic assessments for individuals presenting with frailty within the acute care setting, with the purpose of creating an individualised agreed management plan; incorporating pharmacological considerations, long-term conditions management, frailty syndrome identification, prevention and management, diagnostic reasoning and initiating onward referral to specialist teams as appropriate. - To provide expert clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical analysis and advanced decision-making skills. - To lead as a driver for change, to monitor and improve standards through supervision, evidence-based practice, clinical audit, research and education. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For more information on the main responsibilities of this job please see the attached job description. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Management/Leadership Experience - Evidence of involvement in the development of programmes of care, protocols and audits. - Significant post registration experience at band 7 or equivalent working with Older Adults - Clear and demonstrable evidence of advanced, autonomous practice working with the older adult population - - Evidence of proactive involvement in the supervision and development of members of the multi-disciplinary team and able to demonstrate changes of practice through these - Evidence of involvement in successful change management - Experience in co-ordinating and leading Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments with the Older Adult population living with Frailty **Desirable** - Experience of caseload management including responsibility for complex care packages for vulnerable people - Evidence of research involvement ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered General Nurse/ Registered Mental Health Nurse/Practitioner/ Registered Pharmacist / Registered AHP - Post registration qualification or equivalent experience gained by undertaking on-going personal development and training focused on older adults / frailty / advanced practice skills. - Master’s in Advanced Practice or Equivalent ACP credentialed - Registered V300 Non-Medical Prescriber with evidence of updating knowledge appropriate to patient group **Desirable** - Management /Leadership Qualification or development programme ### Skills and Knowledge **Essential** - Ability to demonstrate specialist expertise and knowledge underpinned by theory acquired through CPD in relation to history taking, clinical assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care - Knowledge and understanding of the Trust Strategy relevant to the role - Ability to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention - Demonstrates an understanding and insight into current issues and developments within the NHS - Confident in the use of computer systems, spread sheets, databases, data collection, word processing and report writing **Desirable** - Ability to demonstrate innovation and effective use of resources in practice - Ability to actively search for the potential to improve quality and customer care ## Documents - [trust values (pdf, 577.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=736) - [frailty advanced clinical practitioner (pdf, 216.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10534744) ## 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.