About this role
Job summary
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.
We are seeking an exceptional Consultant Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Frailty to join our West Kent Home Treatment Service (HTS) and provide senior clinical leadership across our Frailty Virtual Ward and Urgent Community Response pathways. You will work alongside existing Consultant Practitioners as a senior clinical decision maker, supporting safe, high-quality care seven days a week.
Our mission is simple: "We ask people living with frailty what they want from healthcare and strive to deliver it." You will play a central role in achieving this by leading a service that provides rapid assessment, diagnostics and treatment for people with complex needs, long-term conditions and frailty. The HTS and UCR teams operate across multiple bases in East and West Kent, delivering urgent assessments within two hours or the same day, helping to prevent avoidable hospital admissions and supporting people to remain safely at home.
This is an exciting time to join us as the service expands, offering the opportunity to shape frailty care across West Kent and influence system-wide improvement.
Main duties of the job
As a Consultant ACP in Frailty, you will be a recognised clinical expert, practising at an advanced level and managing patients with undifferentiated and complex presentations from admission to discharge. You will exercise high levels of clinical judgement, autonomy and decision-making, providing senior oversight across the service.
You will deliver the four pillars of Consultant-level practice: o Expert clinical practice - ensuring excellence in frailty assessment and managemento Strategic leadership - offering expert advice to colleagues, patients and carers o Learning and development - providing education, supervision and training across the system o Research and innovation - leading service development, evaluation, audit and quality improvement
You will work closely with the Integrated Care Management MDT and wider system partners to deliver proactive, person-centred care. This role offers the opportunity to influence service design, drive innovation and improve outcomes for people living with frailty across West Kent.
About us
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
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As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, 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) 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 [email protected], quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.
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Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
First level Registration with NMC, HPCP or GPHC Educated to Master's level or higher degree MSc/ Experience at band 8a or above Teaching qualification Research qualification Leadership Independent non-medical prescribing
Desirable
Psychology or counselling experience and training/ education
Experience Essential
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 Experience of advanced specialist interventions in the assessment and management of older patients 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 Experience of working across organisational boundaries with partners (commissioning, social care and education providers) Advanced IT skills Experience with evidence of audit, research and innovation applied in practice Experience of strategy development and implementation
Knowledge Essential
Advanced understanding of long-term conditions and application to older people Advanced knowledge of clinical governance Advanced knowledge of change management Advanced knowledge of managing complex patient information and situations
Skills and abilities Essential
Demonstrate a high level of competence and excellence in practice High level competence in strategic planning Advanced skills in writing reports Expert skills in developing and delivering educational material
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address Unit G, Hermitage Court
Maidstone
ME16 9NT
Employer's website https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)