Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
We have an exciting opportunity for 2 candidates to join us in our expanding 7 day Frailty journey.
This post will be working across Worcester Royal Hospital and Alexandra Hospital in Redditch.
Shift patterns consist of long days 7:30am to 8:00pm with a 60 minute break. This post includes weekend working.
We are open to full time and part time positions.
For an informal discussion please contact Matron Gincy John via switchboard or email gincyjohn@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
1. To ensure cohesive working between Acute and Community Services.
2. To contribute to the organisation of frailty multidisciplinary, patient-centred care.
3. To facilitate flow of patients both from admission via A&E/MAU and through the whole patient journey.
4. To provide expert relevant clinical advice and support to other health professionals, patients and their carers.
5. To support the development and implementation of best practice within the speciality of frailty medicine.
6. To provide a specialist nursing role in the assessment and management of patients who are frail.
7. To provide an outreach service to other patients in the Hospital who have a high frailty score.
8. To provide key support and an educational resource for any qualified and unqualified nursing staff, allied health professionals, junior doctors and students working within the speciality.
9. To develop nurse-led frailty follow-up telephone advice after discharge.
10. To play a key role in ensuring that national and local targets for frailty patients are met.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
* Best services for local people
* Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
* Best use of resources
* Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job responsibilities
1. To ensure cohesive working between Acute and Community Services.
2. To contribute to the organisation of frailty multidisciplinary, patient-centred care.
3. To facilitate flow of patients both from admission via A&E/MAU and through the whole patient journey.
4. To provide expert relevant clinical advice and support to other health professionals, patients and their carers.
5. To support the development and implementation of best practice within the speciality of frailty medicine.
6. To provide a specialist nursing role in the assessment and management of patients who are frail.
7. To provide an outreach service to other patients in the Hospital who have a high frailty score.
8. To provide key support and an educational resource for any qualified and unqualified nursing staff, allied health professionals, junior doctors and students working within the speciality.
9. To develop nurse-led frailty follow-up telephone advice after discharge.
10. To play a key role in ensuring that national and local targets for frailty patients are met.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Diploma
* Evidence of Post-registration frailty related study
* Prescriber
Experience
* Recent and relevant experience in Frailty care
* Working within a multidisciplinary team
* Experience and training of staff
* Involvement in clinical audit/research
* Evidence of advanced clinical assessment/decision making and care delivery skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
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