We have two Band 7 Community Frailty Practitioner roles in the well-established Support to Care Homes Team in Solihull. The team provides education and clinical support within Nursing and Residential homes in line with the Enhanced Support to Care Home Framework. The service aims to improve quality and standards, provide clinical expertise and reduce unnecessary hospital admissions by supporting and empowering care home staff.

The team provides an exciting and forward-thinking environment to work by collaboratively on new initiatives and projects. We are seeking highly motivated people with excellent communication skills and a passion for quality improvement within this demographic. Candidates will be dynamic, innovative, invested in older adult care and the promotion of quality and standards.

You will provide expert clinical management of complex, frail patients at risk of deterioration. This includes assessing, diagnosing, prescribing, and implementing care plans to avoid inappropriate hospitalisation. You will utilise advance care planning skills to support care homes through teaching and role modelling. A teaching and assessing qualification are desirable.

You will develop your career in older adult care, frailty, prescribing, expert health assessment and long-term condition management. Ideally you will be qualified or be willing to achieve these. You will work with community matrons and clinical educators to develop your role whilst being appropriately supported.

Main duties of the job

Applicants will have experience of autonomous working at senior level within the community and must possess excellent communication skills along with well-developed interpersonal skills. You will be part of a busy team and be able to work under pressure, therefore effective time management is essential to manage deadlines and prioritise your workload.

Candidates must exhibit sound clinical judgement, decision making and knowledge in assessment, diagnosis and planning of care. You will work in partnership with care home staff and residents to deliver evidence-based care that is proactive and responsive to patient's needs. You will be a key practitioner in the co-ordination of patient care, you will be supported to provide MDT co-ordination and facilitation where required.

The post holder will have experience of caseload management, leadership and change management. Experience of line management, supervision of staff and the ability to motivate others is desirable but not essential. A quality improvement interest is essential for as candidates will undertake regular clinical audits to improve patient care.

A reasonable standard of IT skills is a must as is familiarity with excel and powerpoint. Data analysis and interpretation skills are desirable alongside experience of developing clinical guidelines, policies and integrated care plans.

You will travel across Solihull and therefore a car driver/owner is essential.

For an informal chat contact Clare Hanham on 07805 896043

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• * Registered Adult / Child Nurse on the NMC Register. -- ( field dependent upon role )
• * Evidence of post registration CPD / Post registration qualification in appropriate area of speciality or professional knowledge supplemented by specialist experience and short courses to degree / masters level equivalent FHEQ Level 6 /7
• * Non-medical prescriber or willing to work towards ( where applicable to role )
• * Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC.
• * Evidence of CPD in management of Long-Term Conditions
• * Teaching and assessing qualification/ recognised mentorship course.

Desirable

• * Non-medical prescribing qualification
• * Holistic health assessment /advanced assessment skills
• * Modules including Advanced Health Assessment, Frailty and V300 Prescribing. Experience of Community Services, Chronic disease management and a full range of clinical skills.

Experience

Essential

• * Significant post registration experience within practice related field to role applied for.
• * Demonstrate expert nursing knowledge with an ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care delivered to patients.
• * Experience of effective caseload management
• * Effective leadership and change management experience
• * Experience in facilitating professional development of other staff and ability to motivate others
• * Experience in designing and delivering teaching packages.
• * Experience in collection, collation and analysis of data for clinical audit and research
• * Evidence of ability to professionally lead/ manage a team of staff.
• * Evidence of delivering change management.
• * Experience of working in a multidisciplinary and cross agency work environment.
• * Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance.

Desirable

• * Experience of developing clinical guidelines, policies and integrated care plans
• * Experience of Community Services, Chronic disease management and a full range of clinical skills are desirable.

Additional Criteria

Essential

• * Ability to communicate with a wide range of health care professionals, on a variety of complex and sensitive issues which require persuasive and empathetic skills.
• * Ability to work autonomously, manage / prioritise own workload
• * Competent in a range of clinical skills and expanded practices relevant to the scope of practice required.
• * Ability to demonstrate sound clinical judgement and decision making, supported by theoretical knowledge.
• * Ability to deliver evidence based care that is responsive to the needs of patients and carers
• * Ability to assess and plan individual care needs in partnership with patients/ their carers
• * Ability to negotiate concordance with care plans
• * Ability to work under pressure, manage workload and meet deadlines
• * Ability to work as part of a team
• * Ability to deal with frequent exposure to distressing circumstances
• * Highly developed interpersonal skills, which facilitates relationships with patients, carers, the public, and other professional groups
• * IT skills
• * Ability to demonstrate sound teaching and presentation skills with use of PowerPoint presentations tailored to a variety of audiences
• * Ability to construct , undertake clinical audit and analyse information to produce a report and recommendations
• * Evidence of ability to compile reports and documents for internal / external communication
• * Flexible to meet the needs of the service
• * Hold a full UK driving licence and business insurance as there will be a requirement to travel across the Solihull Borough to visit care homes, GP practices, Community Nursing bases, hospital sites and other locations within this role.
• * Ability to work a varied shift pattern and or across UHB sites and the Community settings where required.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Solihull Community Nursing

Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road

Solihull

West Midlands

B90 4BN

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