Job overview
Trainee Frailty Advanced Practitioner (tAP)
Grow, specialise and advance your career in frailty with full MSc support
Are you a motivated clinician with a passion for frailty and a desire to advance your scope of practice? This is a fantastic development opportunity to join our Frailty Service as a Trainee Advanced Practitioner (tAP).
You’ll train under the four pillars of Advanced Practice while working toward completion of an MSc in ACP and building a clinical portfolio that demonstrates your developing advanced capabilities.
This is a chance to step into a supportive, transformational training pathway — perfect for clinicians who love complexity, learning and leadership.
Upon successful completion of an Advanced Practice master’s programme, there will be funded 8a roles available for you.
Why apply
You’ll receive hands‑on supervision from our experienced team, protected study time once on a pathway, a structured learning pathway and exposure to the full breadth of frailty practice. This is your chance to shape the future of frailty care while shaping your own career into an advanced clinical role.
What you will bring
1. Registered healthcare professional (NMC/HCPC/GPhC)
2. Level 6 study completed and commitment to completing an MSc AP
3. Strong clinical grounding in frailty or older persons’ care
4. Curiosity, motivation and the ability to learn
5. Excellent communication skills and collaborative working
Main duties of the job
6. Delivering holistic assessments and management plans for patients living with frailty under the four pillars of Advanced Practice.
7. Undertaking supervised advanced clinical skills and decision‑making.
8. Working towards prescribing qualification (if able in your profession) and advanced clinical competencies.
9. Contributing to service improvement, audit and governance.
10. Supporting education, teaching and leadership within the MDT.
11. Be part of leading the same day emergency care pathway for frailty at the front door of the Hospital (working predominately within the unscheduled care clinical setting).
12. The role may require you to work between two sites at times to support the wider Advanced Practice team.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working will be considered. Minimum working contracted hours required 30hrs a week.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person specification
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Essential criteria
13. Working at min Band 6 level
Desirable criteria
14. Further study at Level 7 within relevant pathway.
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Essential criteria
15. Completion of Healthcare Degree (or equivalent - Minimum 120 credits at L6 or evidence of master’s level study).
Desirable criteria
16. leadership experience/qualification/CPD
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Essential criteria
17. Significant Post Registration experience within specialist field of frailty.
Desirable criteria
18. Education qualification