Frailty Advanced Clinical Practitioner | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £52,963 - £59,360 Per annum including HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 May 2024 |
| Location: | Frimley, GU16 7UJ |
| Company: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6227056/151-RO002 |
Summary
The Integrated Frailty Liaison Team provides a responsive, safe effective caring service that is well led. The team is commissioned to reflect the needs of the local community. Service aims include urgent case management, proactive case management, self-care management and adoption of a co-produced approach with patients and service users. The post holder will spend a minimum of 90% of their time in direct autonomous clinical practice, having clinical responsibility for a cohort of patients and providing leadership for clinicians within this clinical area.
The Integrated Frailty Liaison team, whilst operating from within the acute Trust, delivers a joined-up approach across the local Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS), with the ambition to deliver high quality excellent care.
The post is currently advertised as a 12-month fixed term contract.
To work alongside the Consultant Practitioner, Consultant Geriatricians, Head of Nursing, Lead Nurses, Head of Therapies, Matrons and external partners to further develop Frailty pathways, including the acute Frailty service in ED, inpatient frailty liaison, community integrated care teams, nursing homes and with the Frimley Health and Care ICS.
To provide expert high-quality person-centred care which always considers people’s safety, privacy and dignity using advanced clinical knowledge that is evidence based.
As part of a MDT, to practice autonomously, whilst being accountable and self-directed in-line with their relevant code of professional practice.
To undertake Comprehensive specialist holistic assessments for individuals presenting with frailty within the acute care setting, with the purpose of creating an individualised agreed management plan; incorporating pharmacological considerations, long-term conditions management, frailty syndrome identification, prevention and management, diagnostic reasoning and initiating onward referral to specialist teams as appropriate.
To provide expert clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical analysis and advanced decision-making skills.
To lead as a driver for change, to monitor and improve standards through supervision, evidence-based practice, clinical audit, research and education.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
For more clarification on the main responsibilities, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached.
This advert closes on Friday 3 May 2024