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Job summary

Main area
GERIATRICS
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
162-7006-TA
Employer
Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Frailty Virtual Ward
Town
Romford
Salary
£59,490 - £66,239 per annum inclusive
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
12/06/2025 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Advanced Clinical Practitioner-Frailty

Band 8a

 

PEOPLE are at the HEART of everything we do

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Job overview

Come and work for a completely new and exciting integrated team aimed at driving and transforming the current healthcare delivery system by embedding the use of digital technology and remote patient monitoring systems to release pressure from acute hospital and improve patient outcome.  


Are you looking to be a part of an exciting new model of care? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Nurse Advanced Clinical Practitioners to bring their expertise and knowledge to assist in the development, implementation, and ongoing delivery of clinical care as part of the Integrated Virtual Ward Clinical Team.

The role involves working very closely with the Acute Frailty Virtual Ward multidisciplinary team (MDT) and is a pivotal role in ensuring all patients within the Frailty Virtual Ward receive the best possible care and service. This exciting post is available for a dynamic and experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) with an interest in the provision of care to patients suffering from co-morbidities.

Main duties of the job

  • Be a highly visible and proactive leader acting as a clinical resource and ensuring the sustained delivery of high standards of care and service delivery. Obtain a patient history and establish a working diagnosis of an individual’s health condition.

 

  • Lead the design and implementation of best practice clinical pathways, care management, and care planning of people with frailty, as part of the VW MDT

 

  • Demonstrate high level clinical knowledge and advanced skills to undertake a remote assessment, including accurate clinical history, and/or perform a physical examination to formulate a differential diagnosis and devise, monitor and review evidence-based treatment plans and advice. This may be in a patient’s home or care home environment as required, and may include lone working.

 

  • Autonomously make a diagnosis and care management decisions based on interpretation of results, ensuring that optimum physical and psychological needs are met and are ethically based.

 

  • Prioritise treatment and care for individuals according to their health status and need, accepting responsibility of own caseload of patients, ensuring all patients have accurate, up to date and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with current legislation and local policies.

 

 

 

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year. 

The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role.  Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application, please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process or assistance with completion of the form (for applicants with a disability) can be made to   Tosin Aragbaiye, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5934. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • MSc in appropriate clinical field
  • • Independent/Supplementary Prescribing (V300)
  • • Advanced Clinical Practice qualification
  • • Registration with health governing body (e.g NMC, HCPC)
Desirable criteria
  • • Diploma in Geriatric Medicine

Skills/ Abilities

Essential criteria
  • • Ability to work autonomously and organise and prioritise workload
  • • Ability to negotiate effectively with different disciplines and all grades of staff.
  • • Driving licence
  • • Clinical leadership and decision-making skills
Desirable criteria
  • • Experience of Acute & Community working

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • • Up to date on developments in frailty management and prevention
  • • Experience of teaching medical/nursing /AHP staff
Desirable criteria
  • • Experience of Quality improvement process implementation

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Esther Harry
Job title
Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01708 435000
Additional information

Ext 8882    

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