8a – ADVANCED CARE PRACTITIONER: Sponsorship Available

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and highly motivatedAdvanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our Older Persons Continuing Care Wards.

This post is aligned to the NHS England Advanced Clinical Practice Framework, operating across the four pillars of advanced practice. The successful candidate will practise with a high level of autonomy and complex decision-making authority, delivering expert care to frail older adults across hospital and community settings.

  • Provide advanced, autonomous assessment, diagnosis and treatment for older adults with complex, frailty-related and multi-morbid presentations.
  • Manage undifferentiated and highly complex clinical scenarios
  • Synthesize information from multiple sources to formulate differential diagnoses and evidence-based management plans.
  • Take professional responsibility for complete episodes of care, including prescribing (where appropriate), investigation, referral and follow-up.
  • Support safe, effective patient flow and proactive pathway management.

Interview:22nd September

Main duties of the job

The Role

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will work within our Older Persons Continuing Care Wards (OPCC Wards) at Poole and Bournemouth Hospitals and will provide clinical leadership and advanced autonomous practice across the Directorates OPCC Wards.

The post holder will be responsible for the ongoing assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of older persons who are medically fit for discharge but have ongoing care needs. Utilising an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.

Person Specification

EDUCATION

Essential

  • Hold a Master’s degree in Advanced Clinical Practice (or be near completion) aligned to the NHS England framework.

GENERAL

Essential

  • Demonstrate capability across all four pillars of advanced practice.
  • Be an independent prescriber (or working towards).
  • Have substantial experience managing frailty, complex multi-morbidity and older adult care.
  • Show strong leadership, influencing and service development skills

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).

Closing Date: 4 September 2026

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