Frailty Practitioner

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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 Trusts 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 coachingto 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