Community Frailty Nurse | Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2024 |
| Location: | Blackpool, Lancashire, FY4 1TJ |
| Company: | Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6181668/382-IMPF37-24 |
Summary
If you are looking to move to a forward thinking team where your opinions and clinical judgements are valued, then this could the job for you!
This is an exciting time for a registered nurse with 2 years post qualification experience - either from an acute or community setting - to join the team as a Community Frailty Nurse.
The post is full time, working Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm based at South Shore Primary Care Centre.
You will have the opportunity to attend the Clinical Examination and Consultation Skills course with ongoing support and training to enable you to consolidate your skills and continue to develop.
The service is community based, providing coordinated and integrated care for patients over the age of 18 with at least one long term condition including frailty and dementia
Applicants must have a full driving license and access to a vehicle on a daily basis.
Working as an autonomous practitioner holding delegated responsibility for a defined caseload, you will coordinate care, undertake specialist assessments, assess unwell patients and plan safe discharges for patients on the service.
Other duties include:
• Assess, plan implement and evaluate care.
• Ensure that the care needs of the caseload are met by effective management and appropriate delegation of work to other members of the team.
• Work in partnership with the wider community and primary care teams to provide holistic patient care.
• Be able to demonstrate extensive knowledge, advanced analytical and practical skills, and the ability to communicate in a non-judgemental, empathetic way with patients, carers and other professionals.
The team is multidisciplinary, led by a Consultant Geriatrician and consisting of Frailty GP's, Nurse Consultants, Advanced & Trainee Clinical Practitioners, Clinical Care Coordinators, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians , Assistant Practitioners and HCA's
The service operates across the whole of the Fylde coast, and based at South Shore Primary Care Centre and Moor Park Health and Leisure Centre.
Working with primary, secondary and community colleagues, you will:
- Be an autonomous practitioner who holds delegated responsibility for a defined caseload, coordinating care, undertaking specialist assessments and planning safe discharges for patients within the Community Frailty Service.
- assess patients in their own home or clinic setting: plans, implement and review care of patients with complex on-going health and social care needs.
- carry out specialist assessment and treatment including the prescription of essential equipment as part of a package of rehabilitation. Specifically assessing issues related to the barriers which prevent the patient carrying out activities of daily living e.g. mobility, moving and handling, functional restrictions, activity tolerance, hand eye coordination, positioning, cognitive impairment, environmental restrictions etc.
- ensure that patients receive the care they need linking into other services and agencies (statutory and voluntary) as appropriate and ensure the patients understand their medical conditions and medications they are taking.
- create outcome goals for the patient to achieve during their time within the CFS and lead on the development, implementation and monitoring of the patient specific care plan to ensure these goals are achieved.
- Work in the community as a lone practitioner in line with the Trust’s Lone Worker Policy.
This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Apr 2024
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