Job overview
Here at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate colleague to join us in the development of the next stages of our Frailty SDEC Unit and co-located Frailty Short Stay Unit as a Consultant Practitioner for Frailty Services.
The post holder will be an experienced advanced level practitioner with a non-medical prescribing qualification (NMP), working autonomously with expert skills in assessment, examination, and providing diagnosis and management for patients across the frailty pathway including community services.
We are looking to further develop our pathways to enable direct referral/step up from our primary care, community, and ambulance colleagues into the Frailty SDEC. With a new Divisional Director of Nursing and AHPs joining us early in 2025 alongside a newly appointed Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing and AHPs, we are now looking to expand the senior clinical non-medical workforce within the division to enhance the clinical management within the division.
We welcome individuals who can bring new ideas to the table to improve our services for the people that we care for. You will work alongside a dedicated frailty multidisciplinary team incorporating Nurses, AHPs, Pharmacists, Doctors, and General Practitioners. The division is focused on ensuring patients receive the right care, in the right place by the right person every time.
Main duties of the job
You will join a team of skilled frailty practitioners including nurses, AHPs, pharmacists, and medical team (incorporating Geriatricians and General Practitioners) acting as an expert clinical Consultant Practitioner demonstrating advanced clinical skills and knowledge to enable the management of frailty patients within the Frailty SDEC and wider community services.
You will work as an autonomous Consultant Practitioner within the Frailty SDEC and associated frailty short stay unit and wider community services with a 70% clinical practice and 30% leadership split role. You will be required to make independent clinical decisions and initiate investigations, direct and use the results of specialist investigations (e.g., blood tests, chest x-rays, ECG's, CT scans etc.) to assist in the formulation of diagnosis and plans of care and treatment leading to the patient's discharge back into the community.
You will be responsible for developing and leading on advanced clinical care practice standards, clinical supervision, and governance structure for a future workforce of ACP's within frailty services and across the community division. You will work closely with ED and Community Response Team (CRT) ensuring timely transfer of frailty patients to the Frailty SDEC service.
You will be a frailty subject matter expert developing trust-wide policies, guidelines, and pathways to ensure older and frail people have seamless access to the right care in the right place at the right time.
About us
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind, we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Act as an expert clinical practitioner demonstrating advanced clinical skills and knowledge including evidence of critical thinking and implementation of research-based practice within the management of frailty patients within the Frailty SDEC and wider community services.
2. Work as an autonomous Consultant Practitioner within the Frailty SDEC and associated frailty short stay unit in collaboration with the medical, nursing, and AHP clinical teams and with wider community services with a 70% clinical practice and 30% leadership split role.
3. Demonstrate clinical leadership, skills, and knowledge in developing a comprehensive Frailty SDEC model, incorporating clinical competency and patient care pathways.
4. Be responsible for developing and leading on advanced clinical care practice standards, underpinning a robust governance structure for a future workforce of advanced practitioners within frailty services and across the community division.
5. Be instrumental in the development and implementation of a local care delivery system that promotes a proactive approach to ageing well and admission avoidance that aligns with the NHS Long Term Plan enhancing cross-organizational collaborative working.
6. At a divisional level, complement and support the clinical teams and all stakeholders in the development and delivery of effective care to older people and their carers facilitating a positive impact on length of stay, timely discharges, and admission avoidance for the community within Wigan.
7. Ensure the Trust is compliant with regional and national priorities with an aim to continuously improve standards of patient care, advance the boundaries of professional nursing/AHP practice and to facilitate multi-professional approaches to service development and delivery.
8. Develop and coordinate integrated ways of working with local admission avoidance teams, Primary Care, Social Services, Mental Health, and the Voluntary sectors to effectively address the needs of the local older population.
9. Deliver educational programmes that develop own and others' knowledge and practice in the context of frailty and older people's care.
10. Be a champion for the delivery of safe, effective, consistent high-quality care for frailty and the older person promoting clinical excellence and best practice.
11. Review the need and then develop and implement evidence-based Protocols, Guidelines, and SOPs to improve care for patients.
12. Work strategically and politically to promote the status of Frailty within the division, wider trust, and across community partners.
13. Undertake expert clinical supervision to work along staff members, supporting and developing their contextualised knowledge of patient assessment, planning, care intervention, and evaluation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Degree in a relevant subject
* MSc in Advanced Practice or equivalent (e.g., registered on Centre of Advancing Practice directory)
* Educated to Post graduate level (or a relevant portfolio of clinical and professional experience)
* Advanced/Enhanced Clinical skills and competencies in line with multi-professional consultant level practice
* Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP) qualification
* Professional Registration with either NMC or HCPC
* Evidence of leadership qualification
Desirable
* PHD
* Recognised professional post basic qualification in the care of older people or dementia care
* Coaching qualification
Experience
Essential
* Recently and actively working in clinical practice at senior level (8a and above) within frailty and/or care of the older person services
* Evidence of admission avoidance and community working
* Evidence of clinical expertise and knowledge acquired through CPD and experience and be clinically credible
* Ability to work within the multi-professional team at all levels both within the organisation and with key stakeholders
* Evidence of implementing innovative practice including leading and managing change
* Proven leadership and management experience
* Evidence of developing and delivering teaching, supervision, and assessment skills to the multidisciplinary team
* Dealing with highly complex and conflicting subject matter problems
* Use expert knowledge and experience to provide professional advice and support to colleagues, other staff, and managers
* Provide detailed, accurate written information
* Experience in responding to frequently changing needs and working to tight deadlines
* Evidence of being innovative and generating new innovative ways to help develop plans
Desirable
* Experience of working with HEI's
* Experience of people management
* Involvement in local, regional, and national committees
* Previous project management experience
Skills
Essential
* Communicate highly complex information and negotiate potentially contentious issues with key stakeholders at all organisational levels including supporting local, regional, and national projects to ensure all parties are fully briefed and consulted in implementing best practice
* Ability to lead a team and work as part of one
* Influencing skills
* Ability to coach, motivate and inspire others
* Effective communicator with excellent interpersonal skills
* Evidence of experience in the analysing of data/compiling of reports and achieved actions
* To provide, analyse and receive highly complex information and present this information to a range of internal and external stakeholders
Knowledge
Essential
* Highly developed specialist knowledge in the management of frailty patients within the hospital and community setting
* Maintains a high level of knowledge of contemporary issues e.g. Advanced Practice Standards and interprofessional education
* Maintain confidentiality as required by professional, local and national policy
Additional
Essential
* Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation
Employer details
Employer name
Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Community Assessment Unit, Royal Albert Edward Infirmary
Wigan Lane
Wigan
WN1 2NN
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