Job summary
- Main area
- Frailty & Healthcare of Older People
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 388-7553293-FC&I
- Employer
- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Newton Abbot Community Hospital
- Town
- Newton Abbot
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
We’re launching a new Healthy Ageing Frailty/ SDEC model centred at Newton Abbot Community Hospital, providing rapid assessment and same-day management for adults living with frailty. As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) you’ll practice autonomously across the four pillars of advanced practice—clinical, leadership/management, education, and research—to deliver safe, person-centred care, develop the pathway, and support the wider MDT. Candidates will have, or be working towards, a Master’s in Advanced Clinical Practice (or recognised portfolio route) and operate with high levels of clinical decision-making within a defined governance framework.
Main duties of the job
- Advanced clinical assessment & decision-making: Take comprehensive histories, perform holistic physical/mental examinations, request/interpret investigations, formulate and evaluate management plans with appropriate senior support and clear scope of practice.
- SDEC/HOP delivery: Provide timely same-day assessment and intervention to avoid unnecessary admission, coordinating seamless transitions with Virtual Ward, community teams and primary care.
- Leadership across the pathway: Provide visible clinical leadership in daily huddles and MDTs; act as a specialist resource for colleagues; contribute to safe patient flow and pathway refinement.
- Education & supervision: Teach and coach across the MDT; support students/trainees; contribute to competency and capability frameworks linked to frailty urgent care.
- Quality, research & improvement: Lead/participate in audit, evaluation and evidence translation to embed best practice; contribute outputs through SPA time (anticipated 80:20 clinical:SPA model, flexed to service need).
Working for our organisation
You’ll join Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, an integrated care organisation delivering acute, community and adult social care. The Healthy Ageing team works across settings with a strong improvement culture, supportive supervision and multi-professional learning. We value compassionate leadership, personalised care (“What matters to you”), and shared decision-making—backed by robust clinical governance and staff development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Clinical practice (pillar 1): Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate interventions for people living with frailty presenting to SDEC/ambulatory pathways; undertake appropriate procedures within competence; request and act on diagnostics (e.g., labs, ECGs, imaging) in line with local policy and regulation; produce high-quality documentation and handovers.
- Professional leadership & management (pillar 2): Provide expert advice across professions; support service governance, risk management and safety; contribute to service planning and pathway design across organisational boundaries; role-model compassionate, inclusive leadership.
- Education, training & development (pillar 3): Deliver formal/informal teaching; supervise, mentor and assess learners; help build ACP/advanced skills capability within the workforce; maintain and evidence own CPD and portfolio of practice.
- Research, audit & innovation (pillar 4): Lead or contribute to audit/service evaluation; use evidence-based practice to update guidelines and care standards; disseminate learning through teaching, QI forums and (where appropriate) academic outputs.
- Autonomous practice & governance: Work with high professional autonomy within agreed scope, escalating appropriately; apply safeguarding, Mental Capacity Act and consent principles; support equitable access and reasonable adjustments; uphold Trust policies and information governance.
- SPA / off-the-job time: Use SPA to progress education, leadership and research objectives linked to pathway outcomes; flex sessions in response to operational pressures, evidencing outputs.
Person specification
Qualifications and training
Essential criteria
- • Degree/ diploma in core profession area
- • Registered on NMC/ HCPC
- • Master’s degree in advanced Practice or HEE e-portfolio equivalent or willing to undertake the ACP masters as a trainee at Band 7
Desirable criteria
- • Leadership or management course/qualification
- • Evidence of active research presence
- • Experience of implementing service improvement projects
- • Independent non-medical prescribing, (if required within service)
- • Education/Mentorship/Supervision Course
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- • Extensive experience within Frailty / HOP
- • Ability to facilitate group supervision.
- • Proven skills in leadership and motivating others
- • Advanced assessment skills
- • Change management skills
- • An understanding of Clinical Governance and its implications for services, including experience of quality issues and audit
- • Proven experience in risk management
Desirable criteria
- • Implementing policy and clinical guidance
- • Multi-professional supervision
Specific skills
Essential criteria
- • Ability to prioritise and manage own workload.
- • Ability to organise own learning and development.
- • Ability to be flexible and agile in relation to service needs
- • Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues across health and social care settings.
- • Ability to respond to, prioritise and analyse complex health conditions and ensure effective interventions are actioned.
- • Ability to respond to problem situations and to ensure effective interventions are put in place.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanne Passmore
- Job title
- Nurse Consultant Frailty / HOP
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07471022497
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