Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The closing date is 02 March 2026

Join Our West Kent Home Treatment Service as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner.

We're looking for an exceptional Advanced Clinical Practitioner to play a key role in delivering high quality, person centred care to people living with frailty across West Kent. This is an exciting opportunity to use your advanced clinical expertise, autonomous decision making and specialist assessment skills to support patients who are acutely unwell, recovering from illness or injury, or in need of proactive intervention.

In this role, you'll lead on improving care quality through evidence based practice, clinical audit, supervision, teaching and professional leadership. You'll champion the implementation of clinical guidelines and contribute to research and service development that strengthens our frailty pathway.

You will also drive the development of innovative multidisciplinary models of care across inpatient wards, urgent care, care homes and community settings, working closely within the integrated care system. Your leadership will help ensure timely assessment, responsive intervention, anticipatory care planning and smooth, coordinated discharge-enhancing choice, independence and quality of life for our patients seven days a week.

If you're passionate about advanced practice, collaborative working and transforming frailty care, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

We're seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner who thrives on autonomy, complex decision making and delivering exceptional patient care. In this role, you'll work at an advanced level of practice-using your expert clinical judgement to assess, diagnose, prescribe and manage care from referral through to discharge, often in unpredictable and fast moving situations. You'll be empowered to apply your extended scope of practice confidently and independently, making professionally accountable decisions that directly shape patient outcomes.

Critical thinking is central to this role. You'll analyse and interpret complex information, evaluate evidence and apply reflective, rational judgement to guide safe, effective clinical decisions. Your ability to explore cases in depth and synthesise information will underpin your advanced level of practice.

As an ACP, you'll demonstrate expertise in high level problem solving, determining what matters in complex scenarios and making sound decisions based on clinical reasoning and advanced assessment skills. Your leadership in autonomous practice will be key to delivering high quality, person centred care across our service.

If you're driven, clinically confident and ready to work at the top of your licence, we'd love to welcome you to our team.

About us

Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we are committed to delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities.

We value diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms to support our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion.

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. Where driving is a requirement, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non EU country). We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment.

Qualifications

• Professional registration with NMC, HCPC or GPhC
• Evidence of post registration study MSc in advanced practice or equivalent (for developmental band 7 post to work towards this)
• A full, valid UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country
• Teaching qualification PGDip in Advanced Clinical Practice (or equivalent)

Experience

• Significant clinical experience with proven experience at a senior level
• Clinical experience of older people with complex needs
• Practical understanding of primary care and community services
• Involvement in service improvement
• Clinical expertise in end of life care
• Experience of working in urgent care situations

Knowledge

• Research process and governance
• Management of patients with long term condition and complex needs
• Knowledge of urgent care for people living with frailty, local and national health policy
• Knowledge of public health issues
• Able to identify determinants of health in the area

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to undertake risk assessment
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and clinical data systems
• Clinical examination skills
• Advanced clinical practice skills

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.

£55,690 to £62,682 a year pro rata per annum