Job overview
Join Our West Kent Home Treatment Service as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner
We’re looking for an exceptional Advanced Clinical Practitioner to play a key role in delivering high‑quality, person‑centred care to people living with frailty across West Kent. This is an exciting opportunity to use your advanced clinical expertise, autonomous decision‑making and specialist assessment skills to support patients who are acutely unwell, recovering from illness or injury, or in need of proactive intervention.
In this role, you’ll lead on improving care quality through evidence‑based practice, clinical audit, supervision, teaching and professional leadership. You’ll champion the implementation of clinical guidelines and contribute to research and service development that strengthens our frailty pathway.
You will also drive the development of innovative multidisciplinary models of care across inpatient wards, urgent care, care homes and community settings, working closely within the integrated care system. Your leadership will help ensure timely assessment, responsive intervention, anticipatory care planning and smooth, coordinated discharge—enhancing choice, independence and quality of life for our patients seven days a week.
If you’re passionate about advanced practice, collaborative working and transforming frailty care, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
We’re seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner who thrives on autonomy, complex decision‑making and delivering exceptional patient care. In this role, you’ll work at an advanced level of practice—using your expert clinical judgement to assess, diagnose, prescribe and manage care from referral through to discharge, often in unpredictable and fast‑moving situations. You’ll be empowered to apply your extended scope of practice confidently and independently, making professionally accountable decisions that directly shape patient outcomes.
Critical thinking is central to this role. You’ll analyse and interpret complex information, evaluate evidence and apply reflective, rational judgement to guide safe, effective clinical decisions. Your ability to explore cases in depth and synthesise information will underpin your advanced level of practice.
As an ACP, you’ll demonstrate expertise in high‑level problem solving, determining what matters in complex scenarios and making sound decisions based on clinical reasoning and advanced assessment skills. Your leadership in autonomous practice will be key to delivering high‑quality, person‑centred care across our service.
If you’re driven, clinically confident and ready to work at the top of your licence, we’d love to welcome you to our team.
Additional Working Pattern: part-time considered - includes weekend working
Working for our organisation
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
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As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.
Job responsibilities
As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
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At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Professional registration with NMC, HCPC or GPhC
2. Evidence of post-registration study MSc in advanced practice or equivalent (for developmental band 7 post to work towards this)
3. A full, valid UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country
Desirable criteria
4. Independent Prescribing
5. Teaching qualification PGDip in Advanced Clinical Practice (or equivalent)
Experience
Essential criteria
6. Significant clinical experience with proven experience at a senior level
7. Clinical experience of older people with complex needs
8. Practical understanding of primary care and community services
Desirable criteria
9. Involvement in service improvement
10. Clinical expertise in end-of-life care
11. Experience of working in urgent care situations
Knowledge
Essential criteria
12. Research process and governance
13. Audit process
14. Management of patients with long term condition Management of patients with complex needs
15. Knowledge of urgent care for people living with frailty Local and national health policy
16. Knowledge of public health issues
17. Able to identify determinants of health in the area
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
18. Ability to undertake risk assessment
19. Proficient in Microsoft Office and clinical data systems
Desirable criteria
20. Clinical examination skills
21. Autonomous practitioner
22. Advanced clinical practice skills
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