Frailty Practitioner (Nurse or Paramedic) -- Urgent Community Response (UCR) and Hospital at Home Frailty Virtual Ward Team (H@HVW)
We're looking for a Registered Nurse or Paramedic to join our Urgent Community Response (UCR) team, and Hospital at Home Frailty Virtual Ward Team (H@HVW) delivering rapid, high-quality care to patients in their own homes and preventing hospital admissions where safe to do so.
As a Frailty Practitioner, you'll work closely with Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs), trainee ACPs, Consultant Practitioners, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and Health Care Support Workers to provide timely treatment and care planning following initial assessments by senior team members.
What You'll Be Doing
*Supporting admission avoidance by delivering treatment and care planning after an initial assessment by senior team members.
*Collaborating with the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) to provide person-centred care.
*Delivering interventions at home to include but not limited to holistic frailty reviews placing the person at the centre of care, re-assessing and monitoring treatment plans, point of care testing, IV fluids, IV antibiotics, ECG's
*Delegating tasks and supervising junior staff
*Working on the Falls Car, alongside SCAS, to assist uninjured fallers and ensure safe recovery at home with a full holistic and functional review.
Our service is delivered over 7 days, 8am-8pm. We offer flexible working, but the ideal candidate will be able to work flexibly within these hours including working 1 weekend in 4.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.