Frailty Specialist Nurse
| Posting date: | 09 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £20.00 to £22.00 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £20.00 - £22.00 an hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 January 2026 |
| Location: | Southport, PR8 4HQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0192-25-0013 |
Summary
The duties and responsibilities of the Frailty Specialist Nurse are to: - Have experience of working with frailty/older population demographic. - Understand the care home provision in the locality and offer clinical support and direction to care home team members. - Seek to educate and inform care home team members to assist with excellent care provision for residents. - Complete holistic assessments for care home residents. - Make independent clinical decisions/judgements based on patients clinical needs, request investigations/tests, carry out when necessary, and review the management plan following. - Provide individualised, proactive care plans for residents living in care homes, considering the choices and needs of individual residents, their families, and care home staff. - Consider anticipatory clinical management planning, when appropriate, to support with hospital admission avoidance, and advocate for expressed preferred place of care for individuals. - Use digital technology to support the recording of assessments and facilitate the medical input. - Work collaboratively with other colleagues in acute and community settings as part of an integrated system that puts patients and their families/carers at the forefront of management plans - Identify and/or engage in locally organised shared learning opportunities as appropriate and as capacity allows The postholder will: - Embed the core NMC values and expectations of care, compassions, courage, communication, commitment, and competence into everyday practice. - Utilise excellent interpersonal and communication skills, provide enhanced discussions with resident and family regarding end of life wishes/planning - Motivate others by influencing and inspiring others in new enhanced ways of working - Provide strong leadership and a shared vision for better care - Highly developed interpersonal skills, negotiation, conflict management, feedback, partnership working, and coaching skills - Communicate with stakeholders and convey complex messages to different recipient groups. - Develop effective and mutually supportive relationships with key partner organisations. - Provide strong intellectual, strategic, and systematic thinking skills, and will think creatively and laterally to achieve outcomes.