Advanced Nurse Practitioner (Frailty)

Integrated Care System; St Helens; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider in St Helens is seeking a Band 8a Frailty Advanced Nurse Practitioner to deliver advanced assessments and manage complex frailty cases. The ideal candidate will work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team, focusing on patient-centered care and seamless care pathways across various settings. This role offers competitive compensation and opportunities for professional development, including flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Opportunities for professional development

Access to NHS Pension

Free car parking on-site

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex frailty cases.
• Ability to conduct home visits and multi-disciplinary assessments.
• Expertise in delivering personalised, holistic care.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced assessments and treatment for frail patients.
• Manage a complex caseload independently.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for integrated care.

Skills

Advanced clinical assessments

Clinical leadership

Patient-centered care

Collaboration across care interfaces

Education

MSC in Advanced Practice

Relevant professional health degree

Evidence of recent CPD

Independent non-medical prescriber (V300)

Clinical Examination and Diagnostics (Level 7)

Current registration with NMC

Job description

We are seeking a skilled and dedicated Band 8a Frailty Advanced Nurse Practitioner, to join our Frailty Team at St Helens South PCN Ltd.

Working under the guidance of the Frailty Matron Lead, you will deliver advanced clinical assessments, manage complex frailty cases, and provide expert clinical care autonomously. You will collaborate closely with the multidisciplinary team to support the development and delivery of high-quality, patient-centred frailty services, contributing to improved outcomes and seamless care pathways across primary, secondary, and social care settings.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide advanced clinical assessments, diagnosis, treatment, and prescribing for patients aged 65 and over with various frailty syndromes
• Undertake assessments in both patients homes, clinics and care homes including ward rounds
• Delivery of advanced clinical assessments, diagnosis, treatment, and prescribing for frail patients, ensuring personalised, holistic care.
• Manage a complex caseload independently, responding proactively to acute illness and frailty-related challenges to prevent hospital admissions.
• Provide clinical leadership and expertise across the PCN, supporting and mentoring multidisciplinary team members.
• Collaborate across primary, secondary, and social care interfaces to ensure seamless integrated care pathways.
• Develop and implement frailty care protocols, pathways, and quality improvement initiatives aligned with national and local priorities.
• Facilitate patient-centred care planning, including advanced care planning and end-of-life support.
• Oversee audits, service evaluations, and the continuous improvement of frailty services.
• Maintain comprehensive, accurate patient records and ensure compliance with governance and data protection standards.

About us

About St Helens South PCN Ltd

St Helens South PCN Ltd is committed to delivering integrated, high-quality care to our local community. Our frailty teams focus on frailty management and supporting older adults to live well and independently at home. We work collaboratively across primary, secondary, and social care to provide proactive, personalised, and seamless services.

What We Offer:

• A collaborative and innovative PCN made up of forward-thinking practices
• A supportive, multidisciplinary team environment.
• Opportunities for professional development and career progression.
• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance.
• Excellent CPD opportunities and peer support
• A genuine focus on staff wellbeing and work-life balance
• Opportunity to shape Frailty services at a local level
• Access to NHS Pension, leave and other standard NHS benefits
• Free car parking on-site
• A chance to be part of an innovative PCN dedicated to improving frailty care.

Job responsibilities

Full JD and Person Spec available on request.

Jobtitle

FrailtyAdvanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP)

LineManager

FrailtyMatron

Accountableto:

PCNBoard Directors / PCN Clinical Lead

BoweryHub / Field Based

Full-time/ Part-time considered (37.5 hours FTE)

PCNSalary Framework:

Competitivedependant on experience

OrganisationalOverview

Primary Care Networks (PCNs) are a key part of the NHS Long TermPlan, with General Practices grouping together to form a network ofPractices, supported by a number of additional clinical roles.

The St Helens South Primary Care Network Limited Company (PCN)is the organisation that delivers the core components of the PCN Contract aswell as supports the wider Primary Care system and tenders for, designs anddevelops new/ existing services for the benefit of the St Helens Southpopulation.

The PCN is comprised of 10 Practices in the St Helens Southareas. The practices have a combined geographic area made up of around 85,000patients.

This role will contribute to the improving quality of care ofour patients across the PCN and its network of practices.

JobSummary

The postholder will work as an autonomous clinician, playing akey role in the respond, stabilise, and make safe stage of acute carepathways. They will deliver advanced assessments alongside the management andtreatment of adults aged 18 and over who are referred to the PCN FrailtyTeam.

Operating within primary care, the Advanced Practitioner willprovide holistic, population-focused healthcare. This will involve carryingout detailed clinical assessments, taking histories, diagnosing, planning andimplementing treatment, prescribing, and reviewing outcomes. The role willrequire close collaboration within a multidisciplinary team and acrossprimary, secondary, and social care services in St Helens. The postholderwill coordinate urgent care for individuals at risk of hospital admission orthose needing timely supported discharge, as well as undertake proactiveassessments within the practice population. Referrals will come from GPs,care homes, and through post-discharge follow-up.

Working independently, the postholder will carry out highlyspecialist health assessments and interventions, while developing strongprofessional links with the wider healthcare team to enable effectiveconsultation and joint working across different settings, including care homeward rounds.

The overall aim of the role is to provide sustained medicalsupport, avoid unnecessary hospital admissions, and help patients remain safeand well within their own homes, nursing homes, or residential carefacilities.

Support patients to actively plan for and manage their futurehealth needs, working collaboratively with their GP, other medicalcolleagues, Allied Health Professionals, nursing teams, and social carestaff. The aim will be to maximise independence, create personalised careplans to address potential health challenges, and promote self-care.

The postholder will take a lead role in designing, delivering,and reviewing high-quality, patient-focused interventions, ensuring these arealigned with both the PCN Frailty Service and the objectives of the St HelensLocal Care Organisation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Person Specification
• QualificationsEssential
• MSC in Advanced Practice
• Relevant professional health degree
• Evidence of recent CPD
• Independent non-medical prescriber (V300) (Level 7)
• Clinical Examination and Diagnostics (Level 7)
• Current registration with NMC

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.

£55,690 to £59,950 a yearCompetitive depending on experience