Job summary
Employer heading
Frailty Practitioner WM
NHS AfC: Band 6
About our Trust
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
Our nearly 7,000 members of staff are proud to care for a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, including our award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for—our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in the domains of safe, effective, caring and responsive, and 'Outstanding' in the domains of well-led and use of resources.
Our facilities are among the best in the country. We invest around £10m a year in our estate and have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster. Works commence in spring 2024 on an ambitious £80m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at our West Middlesex site.
Applications are welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for the position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and accommodated where the needs of the service allow. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust to be part of a new dynamic Acute Frailty Team. We are looking to recruit two cross-site ACPs, six Band 7 Frailty Practitioner Roles and four Band 6 Frailty Practitioner roles. The band 7 and band 6 roles are specific to one of our two sites.
All candidates must be have a passion for frailty, be proactive and ideally have experience in caring for frail, elderly patients. Working as part of a new multi-disciplinary team the post holder/s will lead and support the development of a new service that meets the needs of our local community. This is a partnership which demands we recruit original thinkers committed to providing high quality, safe care in the right place at the right time. The post holder/s will be part of a new team responsible for completing holistic, integrated, and personalised care plans to ensure positive and robust outcomes for the patient. The post holder/s will be fundamental to ensure consistent delivery of the service and maintain communication in a joined up clinical approach across secondary and community care.
Main duties of the job
- Active participation in multi-disciplinary care including screening for frailty, the comprehensive geriatric assessment [CGA], Same Day Emergency Care [SDEC] and virtual ward services.
- Keeping accurate records of patient contact
- Providing skilled assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of frailty conditions within defined guidelines and protocols
- Providing specialist care to patients who have frailty throughout the Trust
- Ordering, performing and interpreting relevant clinical test and investigations
- Providing expert frailty advice and guidance to medical, nursing and other MDT colleagues.
- Recognise SPC (specialist palliative care team) as a key relationship and consider Advance Care Planning and use of the UCP (urgent care plan, London care record Cerner etc) as patient centred, admission avoidance tool
Working for our organisation
About the Trust
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Work both autonomously and as part of the wider MDT in the management of a caseload of patients across the Acute Frailty Service including within the Emergency Department and Same Day Emergency Care [SDEC] service.
- Maintain effective communication with patients, carers and professionals to ensure optimal service delivery.
- Engage effectively in the screening and assessment of frailty conditions including falls and delirium.
- Be able to respond urgently and undertake a rapid assessment safely and effectively to prevent hospital admission, facilitate timely discharge or prevent clinical deterioration.
- Undertake an MDT led comprehensive geriatric assessment including ordering, performing and interpreting relevant clinical examinations under the supervision of senior clinician, as well as providing advice and education to patients and the wider multi-disciplinary team.
- Maintain awareness of own professional limitations, act within own scope of practice and agreed guidelines and protocols. Make use of professional judgement when managing complex or unpredictable situations.
- Provide health promotion and advice to frail patients to reduce the risk of deterioration and related complications.
- Plan and conduct appropriate follow up of frail patients to ensure safe and effective acute frailty service delivery.
Person specification
Shortlisting
Essential criteria
- HCPC or NMC registration
- Non medical prescriber
Desirable criteria
- ACP Qualification
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Eleanor Holmyard
- Job title
- Senior Service Improvement Administrator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07825850465
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