Frailty Nurse for Housing with Extra Care

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

WORKING FOR OUR ORGANISATION

Epsom and St. Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust (ESTH) provides a range of medical services to approximately 500,000 people living across south west London and north east Surrey. We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas and differing levels of quality of life. Together with our colleagues in NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we service.
Sutton Health and Care (SHC) is an innovative joint venture between local partner health and social care organisations, which sees community services fully integrated to support the delivery of a new model of care for the people of Sutton. Hosted by ESTH, the model ensures the breaking down of traditional organisational barriers to enable the provision of care that is wrapped around the patient.
We pride ourselves in having a highly dedicated team and offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment with a wide range of staff benefits and development opportunities. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our vision and values and can play a crucial role in our ongoing achievements.

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

• Supervising and participating in the delivery of programmes of education and training according to identified needs
• Contributing to the development of clinical practice within the team
• Actively participating in educational events
• Attending meetings/conferences as appropriate
• Promoting and facilitating evidence based practice and clinical audit and informing business/service development plans
• Participating in and assisting with any appropriate/reelvant Trust approved research projects
• Utilising up to date research/evidence to deliver patient care and disseminate knowledge to all members of the MDT
• Promoting clinical research and evidence based practice relevant to the role
• Work with the MDT to coordinate development implementation and evaluation of teaching programmes.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Ability to remain calm under pressure
• Ability to make informed and measured clinical decisions in all circumstances
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities
• Commitment to continuing professional and personal development
• Enthusiastic and self motivated
• Full driving licence and/or access to own transport to ensure travel across the borough to include personal and care homes
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The role will be to

• Perform independent clinical assessments of frail older adults and recommend appropriate care strategies
• Be highly visible and proacting acting as a clinical resource and ensuring the sustained delivery of high standards of care and service
• Ensure that patients and their families are fully informed and supported by providing clinical and social support
• Assist in the development of evidence based clinical practice in line with current research and guidelines
• Establish clear lines of communication within the specialty team to ensure cohesive multidisciplinary management of patients
• Link with healthcare teams in order to increase knowledge and facilitate the care of this group of people in the community
• Support the prevention of unplanned hospital admissions and respond to patients who require urgent assessments, and set up management plans to enable the patient to stay at home if possible.