Frailty Practitioner | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust; Brighton; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust Frailty Practitioner role within Integrated Neighbourhood Teams across Sussex offers advanced clinical care to people living with frailty. You will assess, plan and coordinate personalised management with GPs, community nurses, therapists and social care.

You will manage a defined caseload, identify deterioration early and support safe discharge while contributing to service development and education.

Qualifications

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse (Adult) or eligible Allied Health Professional.
• Independent prescribing qualification or plan to complete within 12 months of appointment.
• Band 6 level experience or above in frailty or elderly care.
• Proven ability to work autonomously within multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive geriatric assessments and develop personalised care and support plans.
• Manage a defined caseload of people living with frailty and complex needs.
• Use clinical judgement to identify deterioration and take action to prevent avoidable hospital admissions.
• Coordinate care across primary, community, acute, social care and voluntary sector services.
• Support safe and timely hospital discharge, reducing readmission risk.
• Provide specialist clinical advice, leadership, education and support to colleagues.
• Contribute to service development and integrated care pathways.
• Advocate for people living with frailty and their families to maintain independence.

Skills

Geriatric assessment

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Autonomous practice

Independent prescribing pathway

Clinical leadership

Patient advocacy

Education

Independent prescribing qualification

Job description

Frailty Practitioner | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a skilled and compassionate clinician who wants to make a real difference to people living with frailty?

As a Frailty Practitioner, you’ll use your clinical expertise, professional judgement and passion for person‑centred care to make a difference when it matters most.

Working within our Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs), you’ll support people with frailty and complex health needs to remain well and independent for longer. You’ll help prevent avoidable hospital admissionsand provide coordinated, proactive and locally responsive support.

INTs bring together everyone who cares for a local population into one team, whatever organisation employs them. GPs, community nurses, therapists, pharmacists, mental health practitioners, social care and voluntary sector partners work side by side around the same people.

Interviews will take place the week beginning 23rd November.

You’ll use your specialist knowledge and advanced clinical skills to understand the person, identify what matters to them and work with them and the wider multidisciplinary team to find the best way forward.

You will:

• Undertake comprehensive geriatric assessments and develop personalised care and support plans.
• Manage a defined caseload of people living with frailty and complex needs.
• Use your clinical judgement to identify deterioration and take action to prevent avoidable hospital admissions.
• Coordinate care across primary, community, acute, social care and voluntary sector services.
• Support safe and timely hospital discharge, reducing the risk of readmission.
• Provide specialist clinical advice, leadership, education and support to colleagues.
• Contribute to service development.
• Advocate for people living with frailty, supporting them and their families to make informed choices and maintain independence

We have opportunities available across Sussex. When applying, please indicate your preferred locality in the supporting statement:

Brighton & Hove | Wealden | Lewes & Havens | Crawley | Horsham | Mid Sussex | Adur | Worthing | Arun & Regis | Chichester

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staff
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust

Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

You’ll be an experienced clinician who is confident working autonomously, making complex clinical decisions and building effective relationships across professional and organisational boundaries.

You’ll work closely with GPs, Community Geriatricians, community and acute colleagues, social care, and voluntary sector partners, acting as a key link to ensure continuity of care.

You’ll use advanced clinical skills and expert knowledge to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care, develop personalised management plans and provide specialist advice. You’ll contribute to education, service development, quality improvement and the development of integrated care pathways.

The role requires excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information, influence and negotiate, and build effective partnerships with system partners to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

About you

You’ll bring:

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse (Adult) or eligible Allied Health Professional, with eligibility for independent prescribing.
• Significant experience at Band 6 level or above.
• Extensive experience of working with older people living with frailty and/or complex health needs.
• Strong assessment, clinical reasoning, decision-making and case management skills.
• Experience of multidisciplinary and multi‑agency working.
• Confidence to work autonomously and as part of an integrated team.
• A genuine commitment to improving outcomes, experience and independence for people living with frailty.
• An independent prescribing qualification, or willingness to complete this within 12 months of appointment.

This is an opportunity to be part of a different way of delivering care. Our Integrated Neighbourhood Teams bring together health, care and community partners to create stronger connections around the people who need us most.

You’ll have the opportunity to use your expertise, develop your practice and influence how care is delivered, making a visible difference to both individual patients and the wider frailty service.

If you’re ready to combine clinical expertise, autonomy, leadership and genuine human impact, we’d love to hear from you.

This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Nov 2026