Frailty Practitioner

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The role would be to work as an Elderly Nurse Practitioner rotating between our general hospital sites, community hospital sites and the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital. Our team of nurse practitioners support the medical teams trust wide and provide autonomous support in a number of our community rehabilitation hospitals. We also provide a frailty Assessment Service within the Emergency department at NSECH, assessing frail elderly patients and getting them to the right place first time around, reducing unnecessary moves where possible. We are also in the process of expanding services and settling up virtual wards, managing frail patients within their own home environment that would normally be managed in hospital. We welcome applications from nurses who feel they can undertake this role and meet the demands of this challenging but rewarding post. We would also welcome applications from staff that may not have the current clinical skills to undertake this role, but have the aptitude and drive to undertake training in order to become autonomous practitioners within the team.
Providing services to support our frail elderly patients trust wide in a variety of settings.
Conducting thorough patient histories.
Conducting clinical assessments.
Requesting appropriate investigations, e.g bloods, X-ray, CT scans etc, where necessary.
Interpreting the results of investigations.
Making differential diagnosis following assessment and investigations.
Commencing treatment plans following diagnosis including prescribing where necessary.
Caring for our patients in a holistic manner ensuring any additional referrals to other health care professionals are made to meet all of their individual care needs.
Working across a variety of areas including the Emergency department, wards and some clinic work.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application
This job will involve working at the interface with Elderly Care consultants.
The post holder will develop the Scope of Nursing Practice and provide nursing excellence in patient care for our Elderly population. This will reinforce the concept of patient-centred care and take forward the Trust’s vision within Care of the Elderly.
To provide specialist and advanced clinical skills support to medical staff and the nursing team.
To triage patients, prioritising clinical need, highlighting and initiating treatment plans by following agreed Trust guidelines and protocols.
To work autonomously assessing individual patient needs, initiating investigations, determining a differential diagnosis and initiating appropriate holistic, evidence based treatment and care.
To co-ordinate clinical and support services whilst maintaining or improving the service.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching
to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries

Please refer the Job description for details