Job overview

Join Our West Kent Home Treatment Service as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner

We’re looking for an exceptional Advanced Clinical Practitioner to play a key role in delivering high‑quality, person‑centred care to people living with frailty across West Kent. This is an exciting opportunity to use your advanced clinical expertise, autonomous decision‑making and specialist assessment skills to support patients who are acutely unwell, recovering from illness or injury, or in need of proactive intervention.

In this role, you’ll lead on improving care quality through evidence‑based practice, clinical audit, supervision, teaching and professional leadership. You’ll champion the implementation of clinical guidelines and contribute to research and service development that strengthens our frailty pathway.

You will also drive the development of innovative multidisciplinary models of care across inpatient wards, urgent care, care homes and community settings, working closely within the integrated care system. Your leadership will help ensure timely assessment, responsive intervention, anticipatory care planning and smooth, coordinated discharge—enhancing choice, independence and quality of life for our patients seven days a week.

If you’re passionate about advanced practice, collaborative working and transforming frailty care, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

We’re seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner who thrives on autonomy, complex decision‑making and delivering exceptional patient care. In this role, you’ll work at an advanced level of practice—using your expert clinical judgement to assess, diagnose, prescribe and manage care from referral through to discharge, often in unpredictable and fast‑moving situations. You’ll be empowered to apply your extended scope of practice confidently and independently, making professionally accountable decisions that directly shape patient outcomes.

Critical thinking is central to this role. You’ll analyse and interpret complex information, evaluate evidence and apply reflective, rational judgement to guide safe, effective clinical decisions. Your ability to explore cases in depth and synthesise information will underpin your advanced level of practice.

As an ACP, you’ll demonstrate expertise in high‑level problem solving, determining what matters in complex scenarios and making sound decisions based on clinical reasoning and advanced assessment skills. Your leadership in autonomous practice will be key to delivering high‑quality, person‑centred care across our service.

If you’re driven, clinically confident and ready to work at the top of your licence, we’d love to welcome you to our team.

Additional Working Pattern: part-time considered - includes weekend working

Working for our organisation

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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