Frailty Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Frimley Health Nhs Foundation Trust; South Nutfield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust in the Surrey area is recruiting a Frailty Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the Integrated Frailty Liaison Team. The post is fixed-term until June 2027 and involves autonomous clinical practice with older adults living with frailty, across acute, community and primary care settings.

You will provide expert assessment, leadership and care planning, aiming to reduce hospital admissions and improve patient flow within the Frimley Health and Care ICS.

Qualifications

• Registered nursing or allied health professional with advanced practice training.
• Post registration qualifications or equivalent ACP credentials.
• Experience in frailty, older adults and multi-disciplinary care.

Responsibilities

• Lead autonomous clinical assessments and manage a frailty cohort.
• Provide clinical leadership and guidance across teams.
• Develop Frailty pathways and coordinate care across settings.
• Lead comprehensive geriatric assessments and complex care packages.
• Support service improvement, audits and education.

Skills

Advanced clinical practice

Clinical assessment

Leadership

Geriatrics knowledge

Education

Master's in Advanced Practice

Post registration qualification

Job description

Frailty Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Surrey, United Kingdom

Job summary

Are you an experienced and highly skilled clinician with a passion for improving outcomes for people living with frailty? We are seeking a motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our dynamic Integrated Frailty Liaison Team.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across the Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS), supporting the most vulnerable members of our community.

This role is fixed term until June 2027.

About the Role

As a Frailty ACP, you will spend the majority of your time (minimum 90%) in direct, autonomous clinical practice, managing a cohort of patients with complex frailty needs. You will work across organisational boundaries to provide seamless, coordinated care that promotes independence, prevents unnecessary hospital admissions, and supports timely discharge.

You will also provide clinical leadership and support to colleagues, helping to shape and develop the service in line with best practice and local population needs.

About the Service

The Integrated Frailty Liaison Team delivers a responsive, safe and effective service, designed around the needs of the local community. Working collaboratively across acute, community and primary care settings, the team focuses on:

• Urgent and proactive case management
• Supporting self-care and independence
• Delivering a co-produced approach with patients, carers and service users
• Reducing avoidable admissions and improving patient flow

Main duties of the job

• To work alongside the Consultant Practitioner, Consultant Geriatricians, Head of Nursing, Lead Nurses, Head of Therapies, Matrons and external partners to further develop Frailty pathways, including the acute Frailty service in ED, inpatient frailty liaison, community integrated care teams, nursing homes and with the Frimley Health and Care ICS.
• To provide expert high-quality person-centred care which always considers people's safety, privacy and dignity using advanced clinical knowledge that is evidence based.
• As part of a MDT, to practice autonomously, whilst being accountable and self-directed in line with their relevant code of professional practice.
• To undertake Comprehensive specialist holistic assessments for individuals presenting with frailty within the acute care setting, with the purpose of creating an individualised agreed management plan; incorporating pharmacological considerations, long-term conditions management, frailty syndrome identification, prevention and management, diagnostic reasoning and initiating onward referral to specialist teams as appropriate.
• To provide expert clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical analysis and advanced decision-making skills.
• To lead as a driver for change, to monitor and improve standards through supervision, evidence-based practice, clinical audit, research and education.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Details

Date posted: 13 August 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8a

Salary: £59,798 to £67,020 a year per annum incl HCAS

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 10 months

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 151-NM386

Job locations: Frailty Office, Portsmouth Road Frimley Camberley, Surrey, GU16 7UJ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities: For more information on the main responsibilities of this job please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered General Nurse/ Registered Mental Health Nurse/Practitioner/ Registered Pharmacist / Registered AHP
• Post registration qualification or equivalent experience gained by undertaking on-going personal development and training focused on older adults / frailty / advanced practice skills.
• Master's in Advanced Practice or Equivalent ACP credentialed
• Registered V300 Non-Medical Prescriber with evidence of updating knowledge appropriate to patient group
• Management /Leadership Qualification or development programme
• Management/Leadership Experience
• Evidence of involvement in the development of programmes of care, protocols and audits.
• Significant post registration experience at band 7 or equivalent working with Older Adults
• Clear and demonstrable evidence of advanced, autonomous practice working with the older adult population o
• Evidence of proactive involvement in the supervision and development of members of the multi-disciplinary team and able to demonstrate changes of practice through these
• Evidence of involvement in successful change management
• Experience in coordinating and leading Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments with the Older Adult population living with Frailty
• Experience of caseload management including responsibility for complex care packages for vulnerable people
• Evidence of research involvement

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to demonstrate specialist expertise and knowledge underpinned by theory acquired through CPD in relation to history taking, clinical assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care
• Knowledge and understanding of the Trust Strategy relevant to the role
• Ability to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention
• Demonstrates an understanding and insight into current issues and developments within the NHS
• Confident in the use of computer systems, spread sheets, databases, data collection, word processing and report writing
• Ability to demonstrate innovation and effective use of resources in practice
• Ability to actively search for the potential to improve quality and customer care

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).