Advanced Clinical Practitioner-Frailty | Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust

Posting date:	02 June 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£59,490 - £66,239 per annum inclusive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	02 July 2025
Location:	Romford, RM7 0AG
Company:	Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7249361/162-7006-TA

Summary

Come and work for a completely new and exciting integrated team aimed at driving and transforming the current healthcare delivery system by embedding the use of digital technology and remote patient monitoring systems to release pressure from acute hospital and improve patient outcome.


Are you looking to be a part of an exciting new model of care? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Nurse Advanced Clinical Practitioners to bring their expertise and knowledge to assist in the development, implementation, and ongoing delivery of clinical care as part of the Integrated Virtual Ward Clinical Team.

The role involves working very closely with the Acute Frailty Virtual Ward multidisciplinary team (MDT) and is a pivotal role in ensuring all patients within the Frailty Virtual Ward receive the best possible care and service. This exciting post is available for a dynamic and experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) with an interest in the provision of care to patients suffering from co-morbidities.
• Be a highly visible and proactive leader acting as a clinical resource and ensuring the sustained delivery of high standards of care and service delivery. Obtain a patient history and establish a working diagnosis of an individual’s health condition.


• Lead the design and implementation of best practice clinical pathways, care management, and care planning of people with frailty, as part of the VW MDT


• Demonstrate high level clinical knowledge and advanced skills to undertake a remote assessment, including accurate clinical history, and/or perform a physical examination to formulate a differential diagnosis and devise, monitor and review evidence-based treatment plans and advice. This may be in a patient’s home or care home environment as required, and may include lone working.


• Autonomously make a diagnosis and care management decisions based on interpretation of results, ensuring that optimum physical and psychological needs are met and are ethically based.


• Prioritise treatment and care for individuals according to their health status and need, accepting responsibility of own caseload of patients, ensuring all patients have accurate, up to date and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with current legislation and local policies.







We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer inspecial measures; we’ve openedtwo new theatresat our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been namedthe top CEOby the Health Service Journal.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need totransform the A&E at Queen’sand get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from ourWomen’s Health Hubin Ilford; anAgeing Well Centrein Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) atBarking Community Hospitaland atSt George’s Health and Wellbeing Hubin Hornchurch.

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.

The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many canwork flexiblyand more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accreditedapprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be aLondon Living Wageemployer.

We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application, please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process or assistance with completion of the form (for applicants with a disability) can be made to Tosin Aragbaiye, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5934. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.


This advert closes on Thursday 12 Jun 2025

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