Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job summary
We have a full time, B8a, Advanced Clinical Practitioner vacancy within our multidisciplinary team, which is led by a Consultant Geriatrician.
Our team consists of Frailty GP’s, Nurse Consultants, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Frailty Nurses, a Pharmacy team and support staff.
The Community Frailty Service supports patients to live well alongside their existing long-term conditions. Following a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment patients spend up to 12 weeks on the service working through their individualised plan of care.
The Community Frailty Service also delivers the Frailty Virtual Ward and provides Advice & Guidance to Primary and Secondary care.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the role include:
Receiving patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
To assess health care needs based on highly developed knowledge and skills and use of advanced clinical assessment.
Screen patients for disease factors and early signs of illness.
Make differential diagnoses using decision-making and problem-solving skills
Develop with the patient an on-going care plan for health and well-being, with an emphasis on health education and preventative measures,
Order necessary investigations and provide treatment and care both individually, as part of a team, and through referral to other agencies
Support patients to remain safely at home through proactive frailty management and virtual ward care
Have a supportive role in helping people to manage and live with illness.
Have the authority to admit or discharge patients from their caseload and refer patients to other health care providers as appropriate.
Work collaboratively with other health care professionals and disciplines.
Provide a leadership and consultancy function as required.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Clinical based professional degree
- MSc Advanced Clinical Practice
- Current professional registration with the NMC or HCPC
- Minimum of five years post-registration experience, including at least three years at senior level in frailty, care of older people, community or primary setting
- Non-Medical Prescriber (V300) with evidence of safe prescribing practice, medicines optimisation and deprescribing awareness in frail older adults
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to frailty and care of older people
Desirable
- Post-graduate qualification in frailty, gerontology, long-term conditions or community care
- Experience across interfaces such as ED, acute medicine, primary care, intermediate care, care homes or virtual ward pathways.
- Independent prescriber experience within frailty, urgent community response, care homes or long-term conditions.
- Advanced communication skills, coaching, supervision, research or quality improvement training
Experience and Skills
Essential
- Expert clinical knowledge and autonomous decision-making skills in the assessment and management of frailty and its associated syndromes in a community setting, including risk stratification, admission avoidance and proactive care planning
- Able to undertake comprehensive geriatric assessment and formulate person-centred management plans alongside patients, carers and the multi-disciplinary team.
- Effective communicator: able to explain complex, sensitive and uncertain information, including escalation planning, advance care planning, safeguarding concerns and best-interest decision making.
- Evidence of involvement in clinical governance, audit, quality improvement, incident review, risk management and service development relevant to community frailty pathways.
- Evidence of effective leadership, supervision and mentorship
Desirable
- Senior clinical experience within a community frailty service, urgent community response team or integrated neighbourhood team
- Can demonstrate assertiveness, tact and diplomacy when working across organisational boundaries.
- Evidence of working in acute, community or primary care settings.
- Experience of pathway redesign, policy development, service evaluation or practice change.
- Evidence of proactive contribution to education and frailty capability development across the MDT
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Prioritise urgent and complex caseloads against tight deadlines and work safely under pressure.
- Work autonomously while recognising limits of competence and escalating appropriately.
- Complete holistic assessment, clinical reasoning, differential diagnosis and evidence-based management planning
- Identify deterioration, frailty-related trends and opportunities for early intervention or admission avoidance.
- Work collaboratively with patients, carers and other services, including primary care, acute services and voluntary and social care sector
- Maintain accurate records and handle confidential information in line with governance requirements.
- Influence, motivate and support colleagues through visible clinical leadership.
- Use IT systems, electronic patient records, data and digital communication tools effectively.
Personal
Essential
- Compassionate, person-centred approach to frail older people and their families.
- Assertive, resilience, professional curiosity and sound judgement.
- Motivational, negotiation and conflict-resolution skills.
- Problem solving, decision making and safe delegation.
- Enthusiasm for integrated care, service improvement and reducing avoidable hospital attendance/admission.
- Flexible approach to working across community bases, patient homes and care settings and acute settings if required
- Ability to persuade and influence at all levels.
- Full driving licence and access to a car on a daily basis,
Closing Date: 20 July 2026
To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.