Job summary
- Main area
- Medicine for the elderly
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-MIC-1981
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's and Charing Cross
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Frailty
Band 8a
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an advanced clinical practitioner to join the evolving Acute Frailty Team. The Acute Frailty Team currently provide an in-reach service into the Emergency Departments (ED) at both our St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospitals, assessing patients using a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) framework, with the aim of admission avoidance. The service is looking to expand its service by providing rapid access clinics for complex case management and admission avoidance.
The successful applicant will have experience working with frail patients, ideally within specific frailty services. The role will involve specialist assessments to expertly meet the needs of this complex cohort of patients. Most importantly, the successful applicant will have a passion for older people’s care.
Please note that this position requires the successful applicant to be able to cover both the St Mary’s and Charing Cross sites. Currently the service does not operate at weekends and bank holidays. This is subject to change as the service expands.
Main duties of the job
• Act as an autonomous ACP undertaking Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments (CGA) for patients with frailty, where needs are highly complex. Lead the assessment, formulation, and coordination of person-centred care plans in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team and people who are important to the patient – relatives, carers etc.
• Act as a senior source of clinical and theoretical knowledge for staff across all grades and disciplines, as well as for patients and carers, providing specialist support, advice, and guidance based on evidence-based practice and research.
• To participate and assist with any Trust approved research projects conducted within the department including identification of suitable patients.
• To maintain contemporaneous and accurate treatment records, submitting relevant statistics, reports and activity data as requested.
• To have an excellent working knowledge of key Trust targets and prioritises in terms of operational/strategic plan for the service and related initiatives; to actively support the Trust in delivering high quality care and maintaining Care Quality Commission Compliance.
• The role will be performed within agreed rules, policies, procedures and standards of the Trust.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc in Nursing or other relevant profession
- Registration with the appropriate healthcare governing body
- MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
Desirable criteria
- Certificated speciality courses
- Quality improvement course
- Leadership course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clear and demonstrable evidence of advanced, autonomous practice working with the older adult population
- Experience in co-ordinating and leading comprehensive geriatric assessments with the older adult population living with Frailty
- Experience of managing investigations and resolving complaints
- Experience in leading or contributing to change management initiatives, using audit, national guidance, or Trust quality improvement projects to improve patient care and service delivery
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing and running clinics
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work independently within sphere of competence / authority
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of elderly medicine, with a wide range of approaches to the management of complex frail patients
- Able to demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning through comprehensive patient assessments for risk factors and early signs of illness
- Ability to draw on a diverse range of knowledge in their decision making to determine evidence based therapeutic interventions
- Critically appraise research outcomes and translate into practice and care pathways across the MDT as appropriate
- Ability to organise self and others through effective self-management, delegation and allocation of activities.
- Ability to lead a team of healthcare professionals.
- Experience of running audits and implementing innovative practices
- Confident in the use of computer systems, spread sheets, databases, data collection, word processing and report writing
Desirable criteria
- Clinical leadership at a senior level in an acute setting including people and change management
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Katie Farr
- Job title
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
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