Trainee Frailty Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Secondment)

at  Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification- Main Duties and Responsibilities: Deliver and participate in the clinical care of patients recognised as frail, working within Gold Standards, and performing a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment. Priorities health needs and intervenes appropriately. To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within Trust policies and the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct (2008) or Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Provide a level of advanced and comprehensive health assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge.
To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose, and treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations. Ensure patients are informed and consent is gained prior to treatment, investigation, and management as appropriate. When patients are recognised as being incapacitated to make decisions about their own health needs, to be able to make decisions in the patients best interest to enhance their care and well-being. Take responsibility for the management of patients within own caseload and supervision/development of junior members of the multi-professional team.
Can identify the need for appropriate diagnostic tests and interpret the results

Please refer the Job description for details