Job summary
- Main area
- Advanced Clinical Practice for Older People and Frailty
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 269-SFT9210-A
- Employer
- Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Salisbury
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Frailty
Band 8a
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
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- 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.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk
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
- Previous NHS experience.
- Registered General Nurse or Registered Allied Health Professional with current NMC or HCPC professional registration.
- 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)
- Registered Non-Medical Prescriber, (if professionally appropriate) with evidence of updating knowledge appropriate to patient groups for role.
- Post registration qualification or equivalent experience gained by undertaking on-going personal development and training focused on older adults / frailty / advanced practice skills.
- Recent experience in managing patients with Acute Frailty presentations in an acute hospital setting.
- Significant post registration experience at band 7 working with Older Adults.
- Clear and demonstrable evidence of advanced, autonomous practice working with the older adult population.
- Evidence of proactive involvement in the supervision and development of members of the multi-disciplinary team and able to demonstrate change management skills.
- Confident in the use of computer systems, spread sheets, databases, data collection, word processing and report writing.
- An understanding and insight into relevant, current issues and developments within the NHS, especially in relation to Frailty and Older People.
- Ability to evaluate care leading to improvement in quality standards and service improvement.
Desirable criteria
- Teaching and assessing qualification / clinical supervision / mentorship qualification.
- Management /Leadership Qualification or development programme
- IRMER trained
- Evidence of research involvement
- Able to demonstrate clinical skills beyond traditional professional boundaries, such as prescription of mobility aids in nursing. Generic interdisciplinary experience and skills.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- James Lee
- Job title
- Nurse Consultant for Older People
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07990 404353
- Additional information
All applicants are encouraged to arrange an informal visit. Please contact me directly to arrange this.
My normal working hours are Tuesday to Friday 0730-1730.
No: 07990404353
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