Job overview
Salisbury Hospital is expanding its Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) service and we are looking for enthusiastic Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) to join our dedicated team.
This is an exciting opportunity for clinicians with a passion for caring for older people who thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments. Working alongside Consultants, Therapists, and Community Partners, you will play a key role in delivering Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments within the Emergency Department and SDEC areas.
We are seeking motivated colleagues who value collaborative, patient-centred care and want to contribute to shaping and developing services for our older and frail population.
In this role we can offer you flexible working opportunities (We work a Mon–Fri service, with scope for varied start/finish times and part-time roles) in a supportive, forward-thinking team environment with strong multi-disciplinary collaboration.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide advanced clinical practice and deliver Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments for older patients in ED and SDEC. Utilise your full ACP skill set to assess, examine, diagnose and manage patients with undifferentiated presentations. Support same day discharge and admission avoidance, working closely with community partners including Hospital@Home virtual wards. Develop expertise in managing common conditions affecting older people, such as Heart Failure, Falls, and Parkinson’s Disease. Contribute to service development as SDEC expands across the Trust. Supervise, support and teach ACP trainees and colleagues within the multi-disciplinary team.
Join us at Salisbury and help shape the future of frailty care – where your skills make a real difference every day.
Working for our organisation
We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
2. Previous NHS experience.
3. Registered General Nurse or Registered Allied Health Professional with current NMC or HCPC professional registration.
4. Master’s Degree in Advanced Clinical Practice or Master’s level award that covers all 4 pillars of the Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) capabilities (essential to include: advanced clinical assessment skills and diagnostic reasoning qualifications) (Will consider applicant with all other Master’s (ACP) level modules completed but pending completion of Dissertation module)
5. Registered Non-Medical Prescriber, (if professionally appropriate) with evidence of updating knowledge appropriate to patient groups for role.
6. Post registration qualification or equivalent experience gained by undertaking on-going personal development and training focused on older adults / frailty / advanced practice skills.
7. Recent experience in managing patients with Acute Frailty presentations in an acute hospital setting.
8. Significant post registration experience at band 7 working with Older Adults.
9. Clear and demonstrable evidence of advanced, autonomous practice working with the older adult population.
10. Evidence of proactive involvement in the supervision and development of members of the multi-disciplinary team and able to demonstrate change management skills.
11. Confident in the use of computer systems, spread sheets, databases, data collection, word processing and report writing.
12. An understanding and insight into relevant, current issues and developments within the NHS, especially in relation to Frailty and Older People.
13. Ability to evaluate care leading to improvement in quality standards and service improvement.
Desirable criteria
14. Teaching and assessing qualification / clinical supervision / mentorship qualification.
15. Management /Leadership Qualification or development programme
16. IRMER trained
17. Evidence of research involvement
18. Able to demonstrate clinical skills beyond traditional professional boundaries, such as prescription of mobility aids in nursing. Generic interdisciplinary experience and skills.
These include but aren't limited to:-
19. Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
20. Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
21. An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months & non contractual) pro rata
22. Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
23. Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
24. An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
25. Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
26. Cycle to work scheme
27. Uniform provided (where required)
28. On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
29. On site health and fitness club
30. On site car parking (fee's and restrictions apply)
31. Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
Please note - Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered. Candidates requiring sponsorship (or will need sponsorship at the end of a current visa eg those with graduate visa's) should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying