Frailty Practitioner inLymington inLymington PUBLISHED
MON 11 NOV 2024
In this role, the Frailty Practitioner will conduct advanced assessments, develop care plans, and manage complex cases, ensuring a person-centered approach that incorporates the involvement of patients and their families. The position emphasises service improvement and collaboration within a multi-disciplinary team, making it an ideal opportunity for professionals passionate about enhancing healthcare delivery in the community. Flexible working options can be discussed during the interview process.
This exciting role will appeal to dynamic and committed nurses or allied health professionals. We are recruiting a Band 6 Frailty Practitioner, who will be Registered Nurse, Therapist or Paramedic and have access to their own vehicle and be able to drive for work purposes.
The Frailty Support Team service has a unique model of care nationally. We support acutely unwell adults at home, who are experiencing a sudden decompensation in physical, psychological, or social wellbeing. Our primary aim is to provide first class health care, in the home, giving our service users the choice to remain at home and recover more quickly. We work as One Team with our GPs, community nurses and therapy teams, providing the right care in the right place in the right time frames.
The Team is truly multi-professional, we currently have Consultant Practitioners, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Paramedics, Nurses, Associate Practitioners, GPs and Administrators.
The team operates from four bases. While your base will be in Totton, you will be required to work flexibly across our other bases in Eastleigh, Fordingbridge and Lymington on a regular basis. We provide a service to our patients 7 days a week between the hours of 08:00 and 20:00. Weekends are worked in rotation.
The team has service improvement and development embedded at its very core! As a team member you will be encouraged to help us shape and develop the services that we provide to our patients and their families.
To work closely with Frailty colleagues to provide fast reactive services for people with decompensated frailty and ensure rapid delivery of treatment, care planning and hospital admission prevention where appropriate.
To provide advanced assessment and care planning, including history taking and physical assessment for people living with frailty.
To proactively identify frailty and supportively manage patients during their acute episode of care through the process of urgent comprehensive geriatric assessment.
To provide complex case management using extended skills where appropriately trained to avoid hospital admission and manage complex clinical needs in the community setting.
To provide appropriate person-centred treatment using evidence-based practice where-ever possible. Individuals will present with acute or chronic conditions and complex multi-system pathologies e.g. neurological, heart failure, respiratory conditions, orthopaedic rehabilitation and age related deterioration.
To devise effective care plans for each person with specific therapeutic knowledge. The plan of care, which has been developed in partnership with the person, and where relevant their significant other(s), should be outcome based and ensure appropriate pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.
About us
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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