Frailty Consultant Practitioner B8C | Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Croydon Health Services; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in London seeks a Frailty Consultant Practitioner to lead a new acute frailty service. The role involves working autonomously within emergency care and collaborating with various teams. Candidates should have a background in nursing or allied health professions and experience in clinical leadership. This position offers a chance to make a meaningful impact in patient care while supporting a diverse community.

Qualifications

• Proven history of frailty expertise in healthcare.
• Experience in clinical leadership and workforce development.
• Trainees with qualifications will be considered.

Responsibilities

• Lead the establishment of an acute frailty service.
• Work autonomously to assess needs and provide same day services.
• Promote integrated working across various teams.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Advanced practice

Service development

Multidisciplinary working

Frailty expertise

Education

Registered Nurse or AHP qualification

Job description

Frailty Consultant Practitioner B8C

Band 8c

Fixed Term Contract / Secondment

We are delighted to have investment in the development of an Acute Frailty service at Croydon University Hospital.

We are looking for a Consultant Nurse/ Practitioner to lead this service. The post is open to both Registered Nurses and AHPs, with a proven history of frailty expertise, clinical leadership, service development, workforce development, multidisciplinary working, and advanced practice. Trainee Consultant Nurse/ Practitioner is an option that we are also keen to encourage and will consider for this role.

This is a new post created to implement and lead an acute frailty service working primarily within the emergency care floor, with in‑reach into acute wards, assessing needs, providing same day services, and supporting the effective use of alternatives to acute care including SDEC, virtual wards and community rapid response services.

The post holder will be required to work autonomously to:

• Establish values based professional expert and evidence‑based practice across pathways, services, organisations, and system working with individuals, families, carers, communities, and others. This will promote more integrated working across the Acute Liaison and Frailty Assessment, Complex Care and other teams in the OneCroydon alliance.
• Provide values‑based leadership across the care pathway, services, and systems in complex and changing situations.
• Develop staff potential, add to, and transform the workforce, and help people to learn, develop and improve (in and from practice) to promote excellence. Promoting the interprofessional teamworking from different backgrounds including nursing and AHPs.
• Develop a ‘knowledge‑rich and inquiry’ culture across the service and system that contributes to research outputs and has a positive effect on development, quality, innovation, increasing capacity and capability, and making systems more effective.
• Establishing expertise across the system and nationally by using consultancy approaches and opportunities that have maximum impact on practice, services, communities, and populations, and which add to and sustain workforce capacity and capability.

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon. The Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 4,100 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.

Our main hospital site, Croydon University Hospital is one of the busiest in London. We’re also leading the way in providing more healthcare outside hospitals at clinics, specialist centres and in people’s homes. Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon.

Across the NHS everyone is working hard to meet growing demand and we’re no exception. But with the right people on board, we are rising to this challenge, putting our people in the driving seat, encouraging innovation and transforming our services to give local people the quality of care they deserve. Croydon Health Services puts a great deal of importance on education and training throughout the careers of all of our staff.

If you want the opportunity to have a real impact, challenge yourself and be part of an NHS Trust that’s making a real difference then a career at Croydon Health Services could be just what you’re looking for.

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role in job description and person specification.

This advert closes on Thursday 23 Oct 2025