Advanced Practitioner - Acute Services in Medicine and Frailty
| Posting date: | 02 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 p.a. pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 01 August 2025 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB2 0QQ |
| Company: | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7276215/180-C-257117 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Acute services in Medicine and Frailty (Medicine for the elderly) at Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust. The post involves working across these services as part of the multidisciplinary team and as a valued member of the Advanced Practice team.
You must have NMC or HCPC registration.
You must hold an MSc in Advanced Practice and currently be or have recently been in an Advanced Clinical Practitioner role with sufficient post Masters experience in an advanced practice post. Ideally you should have experience in secondary care - Acute Medicine and/ or Acute Frailty.
You must have portfolio evidence of post MSc learning, development and assessment.
If you have a passion for Acute Frailty we are particularly keen to see your application.
You will be practising autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner (ACP) within acute services to provide patient-centred quality care. This will encompass the skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice throughout acute services. You will support a new way of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient focused service and will ensure the safe referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations across acute medicine and medicine for the elderly. This role will have a predominantly clinical component. Non-clinical time is included and will be given related to appraisal, clinical audit, teaching, self-development, development of the service and research. The amount of time is flexible to meet these requirements.
You must have a desire to learn with exceptional interpersonal and organisational skills, which are essential for this role. You will take pride in the clinical area and create a culture where the team feel empowered. The service aims to deliver and sustain highest standards of care, quality and dignity for all patients and the ACP will be responsible for delivering this.
If you are keen to develop and work as part of our dynamic team then we would love to hear from you.
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment
If you require sponsorship for a Visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check you are not applying from a Red list country - Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
This vacancy will close at midnight on 17 July 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 30 July 2025
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
This advert closes on Thursday 17 Jul 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Acute services in Medicine and Frailty (Medicine for the elderly) at Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust. The post involves working across these services as part of the multidisciplinary team and as a valued member of the Advanced Practice team.
You must have NMC or HCPC registration.
You must hold an MSc in Advanced Practice and currently be or have recently been in an Advanced Clinical Practitioner role with sufficient post Masters experience in an advanced practice post. Ideally you should have experience in secondary care - Acute Medicine and/ or Acute Frailty.
You must have portfolio evidence of post MSc learning, development and assessment.
If you have a passion for Acute Frailty we are particularly keen to see your application.
You will be practising autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner (ACP) within acute services to provide patient-centred quality care. This will encompass the skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice throughout acute services. You will support a new way of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient focused service and will ensure the safe referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations across acute medicine and medicine for the elderly. This role will have a predominantly clinical component. Non-clinical time is included and will be given related to appraisal, clinical audit, teaching, self-development, development of the service and research. The amount of time is flexible to meet these requirements.
You must have a desire to learn with exceptional interpersonal and organisational skills, which are essential for this role. You will take pride in the clinical area and create a culture where the team feel empowered. The service aims to deliver and sustain highest standards of care, quality and dignity for all patients and the ACP will be responsible for delivering this.
If you are keen to develop and work as part of our dynamic team then we would love to hear from you.
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment
If you require sponsorship for a Visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check you are not applying from a Red list country - Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
This vacancy will close at midnight on 17 July 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 30 July 2025
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
This advert closes on Thursday 17 Jul 2025