Band 7 - Advanced Clinical Specialist- Maternity Cover

Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust; Romford; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in London is offering an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist - Frailty to work within a new community-based Virtual Ward. This role involves assessing and managing patients suffering from frailty, demonstrating strong clinical skills while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to provide exceptional care. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in nursing and the ability to work autonomously across various settings.

Benefits

London Living Wage

Flexible working options

Comprehensive staff benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in managing frailty patients in a clinical setting.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong knowledge of patient care in community settings.

Responsibilities

• Obtain patient history and establish diagnoses.
• Lead best practice clinical pathways for frailty.
• Assess and treat patients in virtual ward settings.

Skills

Clinical assessment skills

Communication skills

Motivational skills

Education

Registered Nurse Qualification

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.

An exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist - Frailty has arisen on the Frailty Virtual Ward.

Frailty Virtual Ward is a 30-bed capacity community-based service that aims to support patients, who would otherwise be in hospital, to receive acute care, remote monitoring, and treatment they need in their home or usual residence. The post holder will be expected to support their team, department, and organisation to achieve both trusts' values in their day-to-day work.

The role involves working very closely with the Acute Frailty and Virtual Ward multidisciplinary team (MDT) and plays a pivotal role in ensuring all patients within the Virtual Ward receive the best possible care and service. This exciting new post is available for a dynamic and experienced Nurse with an interest to the provision of care to patients suffering from frailty.

You will be required to work autonomously across the BHR area including within the Acute Frailty & emergency departments as well as visiting patients in care homes and in the community, providing a range of services using your enhanced clinical assessment and treatment skills, to assess and manage patients.

The virtual ward will initially be for patients who have been admitted to the virtual ward following discharge from an Acute Hospital ward however will develop to accept patients with direct admission from primary care and other community-based providers.

This will require staff with skills and understanding. The applicant needs to have a good knowledge base around the needs of all of these patients. The applicant will be expected to demonstrate excellent communication and motivational skills to continue the excellent teamwork currently displayed.

Expectations will include continuing with creating a ward that is supportive to all staff particularly those that are new and junior and to also continue to develop an environment of quality and innovation, encouraging independent thinking and creativity. If you are motivated, flexible and passionate about patient care , we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Obtain a patient history and establish a working diagnosis of an individual’s health condition.
• Lead the design and implementation of best practice clinical pathways, care management, and care planning of people with frailty, as part of the Virtual Ward (VW) MDT
• Working in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients with frailty, using your expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas
• Demonstrate high level clinical knowledge and advanced skills to undertake a remote assessment, including accurate clinical history, and/or perform a physical examination to formulate a differential diagnosis and devise, monitor and review evidence-based treatment plans and advice. This may be in a patient’s home or care home environment as required and may include lone working.
• Arrange services and support with other healthcare providers. Act as a referral agent by establishing multi agency collaboration across primary/ secondary interface to meet the needs of the patient, including social needs.
• Perform point of care testing and obtain supporting information to inform the assessment of an individual.
• Provide clinical interpretation from clinical investigations and determine a treatment plan for an individual.

About the Trust and the Role

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.

The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.

Application Information

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification. The person specification is not the full specification; review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application. Applicants are advised to read all information on the advert and supporting information before completing and submitting an application. Please clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification in the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period. Applications should be made online. For queries or assistance with the application process, contact Rachna Srivastava, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5904. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

This advert closes on Sunday 12 Oct 2025