Foundation Consultant Practitioner for Frailty

at  Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

JOB SUMMARY

We are excited to be recruiting a Consultant Practitioner in Frailty to work alongside our existing Consultant Workforce at Urgent Community Response and Frailty H@H Virtual Ward.
The Team operates across Mid Hampshire to deliver acute hospital level care at home in response to urgent changes in health status for patients living with frailty.
This vacancy is a direct result of our success and the recent expansion of the service through increased commissioning and a very successful GIRFT review.
The successful applicant will be joining an established and supportive group of Consultant Practitioners from varied backgrounds. We welcome applications from all Allied Health Professions and Nursing. The successful applicant will be supported to develop their Multi-Professional Consultant Practice Portfolio working towards the ‘Expert’ capabilities.

ABOUT US

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust’s Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

The post holder will be required to work autonomously. The foundation nature of the post means appropriate supervision from Consultant Practitioner is available to support the Foundation Consultant Practitioner to develop and work towards the competencies expected of a full Consultant Practitioner. These include;
Establish values based professional expert and evidence-based practice across pathways, services, organisations, and system working with individuals, families, carers, communities, and others.
Provide values-based leadership across the care pathway, services, and systems in complex and changing situations.
Develop staff potential, add to, and transform the workforce, and help people to learn, develop and improve (in and from practice) to promote excellence.
Develop a ‘knowledge-rich and inquiry’ culture across the service and system that contributes to research outputs and has a positive effect on development, quality, innovation, increasing capacity and capability, and making systems more effective.
Establishing expertise across the system and nationally by using consultancy approaches and opportunities that have maximum impact on practice, services, communities, and populations, and which add to and sustain workforce capacity and capability.