Job summary
- Main area
- Frailty
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Secondment: 7 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 199-6445391-MC
- Employer
- Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Croydon University Hospital
- Town
- Croydon
- Salary
- £56,388 - £62,785 pa inc HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Frailty
Band 8a
Croydon is a busy, exciting and diverse place to work. The borough has one of the youngest populations in London and continues to grow.
Croydon Health Services cares for local people at Croydon University Hospital, Purley Memorial Hospital and in clinics and people’s homes all across the borough.
We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset and so through Listening into Action – our way of engaging staff - we empower everyone at any level to initiate and bring about real improvements in our care.
Join us and be a part of the team that is making Croydon proud. #choosecroydon
Job overview
Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Frailty
Band 8a - Secondment/Fixed Term (7 months)
The “Front Door” Frailty Practitioner will be part of the acute frailty team and working in the Emergency Department undertaking comprehensive holistic geriatric assessments for older patients living with frailty. They will be working as part of a new front door frailty team alongside another Band 8a Frailty practitioner, ED liaison physiotherapist and occupational therapist, with consultant geriatrician, pharmacy and social worker support and will be working in parallel with the ED department.
Interviews: tbc
Main duties of the job
They will be providing early and appropriate assessments to identify those who need hospital admission and those whose needs may best be met by Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) with or without linked primary care and community support. Succeeding in this should minimise patients’ risk of exposure to COVID-19, along with other hospital associated risks such as deconditioning. This is particularly important for people aged over 65 years, who are more likely to present with symptoms of frailty. If treated as a priority, it is less likely these patients will need to be admitted to hospital.
The role will be responsible for the line management and professional leadership of the band 7 Frailty Practitioners within the integrated care networks.
The front door frailty team will aim to minimise and remove delays in the patient pathway, allowing services to care for patients within the same day, as an alternative to hospital admission.
Working for our organisation
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon. The Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 4,100 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.
Our main hospital site, Croydon University Hospital is one of the busiest in London. We’re also leading the way in providing more healthcare outside hospitals at clinics, specialist centres and in people’s homes. Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon.
Across the NHS everyone is working hard to meet growing demand and we’re no exception. But with the right people on board, we are rising to this challenge, putting our people in the driving seat, encouraging innovation and transforming our services to give local people the quality of care they deserve. Croydon Health Services puts a great deal of importance on education and training throughout the careers of all of our staff.
If you want the opportunity to have a real impact, challenge yourself and be part of an NHS Trust that’s making a real difference then a career at Croydon Health Services could be just what you’re looking for.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document (Job Description) which contains more information about the role
Person specification
Qualifications, Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Allied Health Professional/Registered Nurse
- Post registration experience gained by undertaking on-going personal development and training focused on older adults / frailty / advanced practice skills
- Prescriber (or working towards)
- Master’s degree level award (or working towards) relevant to the role.
Desirable criteria
- Training in motivational coaching and/or interviewing
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Previous experience in completing advanced care plans.
- Able to lead a team successfully.
- Commitment to partnership working, including ability to work cooperatively with GPs, colleagues and other stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills (listening, verbal and written) that enable you to inform and advise others clearly, and communicate with a variety of audiences including clients, health and care professionals, commissioners and other organisations’ staff.
- Ability to deliver services in a person-centred way (enabling/empowering approach) promoting independence in clients
- Knowledge of current community service changes and direction.
- Knowledge of clinical risk strategies and able to apply risk reduction techniques.
Desirable criteria
- Management/leadership qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing a caseload as a senior clinician.
- Demonstrable experience of working with people with health and social care needs, or community-based work with socially excluded groups, or those experiencing health inequalities.
- Demonstrable experience of working successfully in partnership across functional/organisational boundaries.
Desirable criteria
- Successfully implementing change including change that involved staff.
- Experience managing staff within a team, resources and workload e.g., effective use of team skill mix, appropriate delegation of patient care, supervision of junior staff.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- A broad understanding of health and social care services.
- Understanding of how to monitor and improve service quality for the benefit of customers, and the ability to demonstrate and foster a culture of sharing best practice with colleagues and learning from others.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of local area, and local community and voluntary sector services.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Towhid Imam
- Job title
- Consultant Physician Geriatrics & Lead for Frailty
- Email address
- [email protected]
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