Job overview
The opportunity has arisen to be part of our expanding multi-disciplinary frailty team and to have the opportunity to lead the Advance Clinical Practitioner team whilst also providing autonomous clinical support to the care of patients undertaking frailty health assessments: diagnoses, treating, and discharging patients within their own competence.
Our Frailty Strategy forms part of the Trust strategy. In line with national evidence, we aim to take care closer to patients’ homes, to enable and empower our frail older patients to live independently with the confidence that we are there to support them.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will lead the expanding Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) team, support ACP team supervision and associated development requirements, service reviews and planning, driving innovation through the four pillars of advanced practice, clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research. They will co-ordinate ACP cover for multiple services across 24/7 services. Dedicated leadership/management & education time will be allocated to allow for undertaking the leadership role alongside clinical duties.
As a clinician, the post holder will act as an independent practitioner, providing 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.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post-registration experience and working at Band 8a 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
- Experience of multi-agency / multi-disciplinary team working across service interfaces.
- 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
- Experience in formulating protocols and standards.
- Coordinating cross-functional teams and driving organisational change.
- Evidence of managing budgets.
Special Circumstances
Essential
- Ability to travel cross site and to community settings.
- Ability to work internal rotation, involving 24/7 cover.
Skills, Abilities & Knowledge
Essential
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills at all organisational levels.
- Team leadership and supervising junior colleagues and other MDT members
- Ability to analyse and report performance and financial data
- Ability to effectively prioritise workload
- Ability to educate and clinical supervise others in the promotion of high standards of patient care
- Ability to appraise evidence, using analytical and problem-solving skills to inform decision-making, and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to identify, develop and implement risk management and clinical governance systems at an expert level.
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
- Qualified as a non-medical prescriber (if able under professional registration)
- Evidence of continuing professional development. (including further level 7 modules that support practice)
- Post-graduate management and/or leadership training
- Qualification in teaching
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This advert is for Lead Frailty Advanced Care Practitioner with Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust in Stoke Mandeville Hospital. It is listed as a Band 8 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £66,582 - £77,368 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 02 Sep 2026.
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