Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and highly motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our Older Persons Continuing Care Wards.

This post is aligned to the NHS England Advanced Clinical Practice Framework, operating across the four pillars of advanced practice. The successful candidate will practise with a high level of autonomy and complex decision-making authority, delivering expert care to frail older adults across hospital and community settings.

• Provide advanced, autonomous assessment, diagnosis and treatment for older adults with complex, frailty-related and multi-morbid presentations.
• Manage undifferentiated and highly complex clinical scenarios
• Synthesize information from multiple sources to formulate differential diagnoses and evidence-based management plans.
• Take professional responsibility for complete episodes of care, including prescribing (where appropriate), investigation, referral and follow-up.
• Support safe, effective patient flow and proactive pathway management.

Interview:22nd September

Main duties of the job
The Role
The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will work within our Older Persons Continuing Care Wards (OPCC Wards) at Poole and Bournemouth Hospitals and will provide clinical leadership and advanced autonomous practice across the Directorates OPCC Wards.

The post holder will be responsible for the ongoing assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of older persons who are medically fit for discharge but have ongoing care needs. Utilising an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.

About us
UHD are investing, developing and transforming Trust services in line with the New Hospital Programme. As part of this, some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or permanently. Recruiting Managers will be happy to answer any service-specific questions at interview.

UHD has active networks including Women's, BAME, Pride, EU, Pro Ability, and Armed Forces. We support Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant interview schemes.

AI tools may be used, but applications must honestly reflect your own skills and experience. Integrity is key to our recruitment process.

Details
Date posted
13 August 2026

Pay scheme
Agenda for change

Band
Band 8a

Salary
£57,528 to £64,750 a year

pa/po

Contract
Permanent

Working pattern
Part-time

Reference number
153-ME06609

Job locations
UHD - Poole Hospital
Longfleet Road
Poole
BH15 2JB
United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see JD and PS

The Role
The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will work within our Older Persons Continuing Care Wards (OPCC Wards) at Poole and Bournemouth Hospitals and will provide clinical leadership and advanced autonomous practice across the Directorates OPCC Wards.

The post holder will be responsible for the ongoing assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of older persons who are medically fit for discharge but have ongoing care needs. Utilising an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.

Leadership & Management

• Provide visible clinical leadership within the Olde and across the Directorate.
• Support prioritisation of workload and operational flow
• Contribute to service transformation, redesign and integration aligned to national and Trust strategic priorities.
• Champion quality improvement, governance and values-based care.
• Support workforce development and advanced practice role modelling.

Education
Act as an expert resource for ACPs, trainee ACPs, ECPs and the wider multidisciplinary team.

• Provide clinical supervision, mentorship and support.
• Develop, deliver and evaluate specialist education programmes.
• Contribute to embedding the ACP role in line with national capability standards.

Research & Evidence-Based Practice

• Promote a culture of enquiry and continuous improvement.
• Apply critical appraisal skills to inform clinical decision-making and pathway development.
• Participate in audit, service evaluation and quality improvement initiatives.
• Support implementation of best practice and emerging evidence within older persons services.

About You
You will:

• Hold a Masters degree in Advanced Clinical Practice (or be near completion) aligned to the NHS England framework.
• Demonstrate capability across all four pillars of advanced practice.
• Be an independent prescriber (or working towards).
• Have substantial experience managing frailty, complex multi-morbidity and older adult care.
• Be confident practising autonomously
• Show strong leadership, influencing and service development skills

Why Join our OPCC Wards?

• Work within a supportive, forward-thinking multidisciplinary team on a nurse-led Ward
• Make a meaningful impact on outcomes and experience for older people.

If you are an experienced ACP ready to lead, innovate and practise at the highest level of advanced capability, we would love to hear from you.

Person Specification
EDUCATION
Essential

• Hold a Master's degree in Advanced Clinical Practice (or be near completion) aligned to the NHS England framework.

GENERAL
Essential

• Demonstrate capability across all four pillars of advanced practice.
• Be an independent prescriber (or working towards).
• Have substantial experience managing frailty, complex multi-morbidity and older adult care.
• Show strong leadership, influencing and service development skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.