Consultant Advanced Clinical Practitioner (NHS AfC: Band 8b) - Nursing and Allied Health Profes[...]

Kent Community Health NHS Trust; Tenterden; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Kent Community Health NHS Trust seeks a Consultant Advanced Clinical Practitioner to enhance community hospital care for patients with frailty. This permanent role requires significant expertise in clinical practice, leadership duties, and a commitment to high patient care standards in an innovative environment. The successful candidate will work collaboratively across East and West Kent to lead modern inpatient services.

Qualifications

• First level Registration with NMC, HPCP or GPHC.
• Significant post-registration experience, including ACP at band 8a or above.
• Extensive clinical experience with frailty and long-term conditions.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced and expert level clinical practice focused on frailty.
• Lead service development and education initiatives for other staff.
• Conduct service evaluations, research, and audits.

Skills

Leadership

Advanced Clinical Practice

Clinical Governance

Coaching and Mentoring

Education

Educated to Master’s level or higher

Research qualification

Teaching qualification

Non-medical Prescribing

Job description

Consultant Advanced Clinical Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Main area Nursing and Allied Health Professionals Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 846-7159065-CF-A

Site Trinity House (and hospital sites across East and West) Town Ashford Salary £62,215 - £72,293 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 06/07/2025 23:59

Job overview

We are looking for a Consultant ACP to join our Trust supporting site across East and West Kent.

The Consultant Practitioner for Community Hospitals co-leads the medical provision forCommunity Hospitals, alongside the Consultant Clinical Lead.

This includes medical management of community hospital services across east and west Kent; development of the current and future medical model; and participation in service redesign.

It would be particularly suitable for a forward thinking, innovative individual seeking an exciting opportunity to help plan and deliver modern dynamic Inpatient Frailty services.

Main duties of the job

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

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

Working for our organisation

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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 via [e-mail] 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.

It is important to us that all our staff are aligned to our Values and in particular the behaviours we expect from KCHFT managers. With this in mind as part of the selection process for this position you will be asked to complete two other activities in addition to the competency-based interview that you will invited to. This extended selection process is designed to assess your management style and the specific details of the exercises will be given if you are successfully shortlisted. The provisional date of the selection event is 19th May 2025 although this may be subject to change.

Find out more about the community difference here .

Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.

Person specification

Qualifications

• First level Registration with NMC, HPCP or GPHC
• Significant post registration experience, and experience as an ACP at band 8a or above
• Educated to Master’s level or higher degree
• Research qualification
• Teaching qualification
• Leadership
• 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 strategy development and implementation
• Experience of advanced specialist interventions in the assessment and management of older patients
• Experience with evidence of audit, research and innovation applied in practice
• Experience of teaching and education provision
• Extensive experience in report writing
• Experience of planning, implementation and delivery of educational programmes relating to long term conditions
• Advanced IT skills
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries with partners (commissioning, social care and education providers)
• Psychology or counselling experience and training/ education
• Extensive experience of presenting report/ education/ 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 managing complex patient information and situations
• Advanced knowledge of change management
• Extensive research knowledge

Skills and 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
• Chairing and facilitation skills
• Expert skills in developing and delivering educational material
• High level communication skills both verbally and non-verbally
• Advanced skills in clinical practice, including clinical governance
• Peer review of research or publications skills
• Risk management skills at a high level

Personal Attributes

• Facilitative approach
• Valid UK Driving Licence

Ability to manage

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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Name Chloe Chalmers Job title PA to Assistant Director and Head of Service for Community Hospitals Email address [e-mail]