Lead Frailty Advanced Care Practitioner | Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust in Aylesbury

The opportunity has arisen to be part of our expanding multi-disciplinary frailty team and to lead the Advanced Clinical Practitioner team while 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, enabling and empowering our frail older patients to live independently with the confidence that we are there to support them.

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.

As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression. Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work. Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time. We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.

We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates. We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community.

Please contact Pam.Daley@nhs.net (our Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application. We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

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. If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.