Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The closing date is 16 November 2025

Go back Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

We're excited to launch an innovative Healthy Ageing Frailty / Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) model based at Newton Abbot Community Hospital. This service provides rapid assessment and same-day management for adults living with frailty, helping to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and support people to remain well in their own communities.

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP), you'll work autonomously across the four pillars of advanced practice - clinical, leadership/management, education, and research - to deliver safe, person-centred care. You'll play a key role in developing this evolving pathway and supporting the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT) to embed best practice and innovation.

We're seeking experienced clinicians who have, or are working towards, a Master's in Advanced Clinical Practice (or recognised portfolio route). You'll be confident in complex clinical decision-making and thrive within a supportive governance framework that values professional development, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Main duties of the job

Advanced Clinical Assessment & Decision-Making

Undertake comprehensive patient assessments, including detailed history taking and holistic physical and mental health examinations. Request and interpret investigations, and formulate evidence-based management plans, working within a clearly defined scope of practice and with appropriate senior support.

SDEC / Hospital at Home Pathway Delivery

Deliver timely same-day assessments and interventions to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions. Coordinate seamless transitions between the Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC), Virtual Ward, community teams, and primary care to ensure continuity of care.

Leadership Across the Pathway

Provide visible clinical leadership during daily huddles and multidisciplinary team (MDT) discussions. Act as a specialist resource for colleagues, supporting safe and efficient patient flow and contributing to continuous pathway improvement.

Education & Supervision

Support learning and development across the MDT through teaching, coaching, and supervision. Guide students and trainees, and contribute to the delivery and development of competency and capability frameworks within frailty and urgent care services.

Quality, Research & Service Improvement

Lead or participate in audit, evaluation, and quality improvement projects to embed best practice and drive innovation. Contribute to evidence-based service development and professional outputs through your Supporting Professional Activities (SPA) time (anticipated 80:20 clinical-to-SPA split, adjusted to meet service needs).

About us

You'll join Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, an integrated care organisation delivering acute, community and adult social care.

The Healthy Ageing team works across settings with a strong improvement culture, supportive supervision and multi-professional learning.

We value compassionate leadership, personalised care ("What matters to you"), and shared decision-making - backed by robust clinical governance and staff development.

Job responsibilities

• Clinical practice (pillar 1): Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate interventions for people living with frailty presenting to SDEC/ambulatory pathways; undertake appropriate procedures within competence; request and act on diagnostics (e.g., labs, ECGs, imaging) in line with local policy and regulation; produce high-quality documentation and handovers.
• Professional leadership & management (pillar 2): Provide expert advice across professions; support service governance, risk management and safety; contribute to service planning and pathway design across organisational boundaries; role model compassionate, inclusive leadership.
• Education, training & development (pillar 3): Deliver formal/informal teaching; supervise, mentor and assess learners; help build ACP/advanced skills capability within the workforce; maintain and evidence own CPD and portfolio of practice.
• Research, audit & innovation (pillar 4): Lead or contribute to audit/service evaluation; use evidence-based practice to update guidelines and care standards; disseminate learning through teaching, QI forums and (where appropriate) academic outputs.
• Autonomous practice & governance: Work with high professional autonomy within agreed scope, escalating appropriately; apply safeguarding, Mental Capacity Act and consent principles; support equitable access and reasonable adjustments; uphold Trust policies and information governance.
• SPA / off-the-job time: Use SPA to progress education, leadership and research objectives linked to pathway outcomes; flex sessions in response to operational pressures, evidencing outputs.

Person Specification Qualifications and training

• o Degree/diploma in core profession area
• o Registered on NMC/HCPC
• o Master's degree in advanced Practice or HEE e-portfolio equivalent or willing to undertake the ACP masters as a trainee at Band 7
• o Leadership or management course/qualification
• o Evidence of active research presence
• o Experience of implementing service improvement projects
• o Independent non-medical prescribing, (if required within service)

Knowledge and experience

• o Extensive experience within Frailty / HOP
• o Ability to facilitate group supervision.
• o Proven skills in leadership and motivating others
• o Advanced assessment skills
• o An understanding of Clinical Governance and its implications for services, including experience of quality issues and audit
• o Proven experience in risk management
• o Implementing policy and clinical guidance
• o Multi-professional supervision

Specific skills

• o Ability to prioritise and manage own workload.
• o Ability to organise own learning and development.
• o Ability to be flexible and agile in relation to service needs
• o Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues across health and social care settings.
• o Ability to respond to, prioritise and analyse complex health conditions and ensure effective interventions are actioned.
• o Ability to respond to problem situations and to ensure effective interventions are put in place.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust