Consultant Advanced Clinical Practitioner

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Consultant Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The closing date is 19 December 2025

The Consultant Practitioner for Home Treatment Service leads the Home Treatment Service alongside the SAS Doctors West Kent.

We are a community team made up of a variety of staff including Specialist Doctors, Speciality Doctors, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Health Care Assistants.

The Home Treatment Services have excellent links with Primary Care, Community Teams, Hospice, SECAMB Trust and Acute Trust Teams.

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a clinical expert in Frailty and will fulfil the 4 domains of Advanced Clinical Practice:

1. Advanced and expert level clinical practice within the field of frailty ensuring clinical excellence
2. Leadership and consultancy providing expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues
3. Development and provision of education and training to other staff and trainees
4. Service development, evaluation, research and audit.

About us

Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we've got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences.

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn't visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission.

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won't involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We'll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both.

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Job responsibilities

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

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able 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 at 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.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

Find out more about the community difference here.

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Person Specification Qualifications

• First level Registration with NMC, HPCP or GPHC
• Demonstratable, Significant or Extensive post registration experience
• Teaching qualification
• Research qualification
• Non- medical Prescribing
• Psychology or counselling experience and training/ education

Experience

• Extensive clinical experience in the care and treatment of people with frailty (including long term conditions and dementia care experience)
• Advanced skills in history taking and physical assessment of frail people
• Independent prescribing experience
• Experience of advanced specialist interventions in the assessment and management of older patients
• Experience of planning, implementation and delivery of educational programmes relating to long term conditions
• Extensive experience of presenting report/educating/ information to public forums
• IR(ME)R training or equivalent

Knowledge

• Advanced understanding of long-term conditions and application to older people
• Advanced knowledge of clinical governance
• Advanced knowledge of change management
• Advanced knowledge of managing complex patient information and situations
• Extensive research knowledge

Skills & Abilities

• Demonstrate a high level of competence and excellence in practice
• High level competence in strategic planning
• Advanced skills in writing reports
• High level skills in presenting
• Coaching and mentoring skills
• Peer review of research or publications skillsRisk management skills at a high level

Ability to Manage

• Able to meet tight deadlines
• Previous evidence of managing others
• Work produced is managed to ensure a high quality standard reflective of the seniority of the post

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.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

£64,455 to £74,896 a year per annum pro rata