A Vacancy 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 & 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 welcome individuals who can bring new ideas to the table to improve our services for the people that we care for.
This is a permanent, full time post (37.5 hours) working Monday to Sunday plus on-call.
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 ACPs 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.
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.
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.
To 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.
To demonstrate clinical leadership, skills and knowledge in developing a comprehensive Frailty SDEC model, incorporating clinical competency and patient care pathways.
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.
To 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.
At a divisional level, compliment 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.
To 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.
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.
Deliver educational programmes that develops own and others knowledge and practice in the context of frailty and older people’s care.
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.
Review the need and then develop and implement evidence-based Protocols, Guidelines and SOPs to improve care for patients.
Work strategically and politically to promote the status of Frailty within the division, wider trust and across community partners.
Undertake expert clinical supervision to work along staff members, so supporting and developing their contextualised knowledge of patient assessment, planning, care intervention and evaluation.
This advert closes on Tuesday 21 Jan 2025