Frailty ACP: Advanced Nurse Practitioner with Home Visits

Wessex LMCs Ltd.; Christchurch; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

The Grove Surgery in Christchurch is seeking a Frailty Nurse Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join the South Coast Medical Group PCN on a full-time basis. Based at The Grove Surgery, you will work across the PCN delivering proactive, high-quality frailty care to a predominantly housebound patient population.

This autonomous role combines frailty expertise with advanced assessment, diagnosis, prescribing and clinical decision-making to support improved patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with Frailty Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) credentials.
• Experience in autonomous assessment, diagnosis, prescribing and clinical decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive, person-centred frailty assessments, often in patients' homes.
• Independently assess patients and develop treatment and management plans.
• Proactively manage frail patients with complex needs and long-term conditions.
• Conduct advance care planning and Emergency Health Care Planning.
• Prescribe and review medication as an Independent Non-Medical Prescriber.
• Request and interpret investigations and act on results.
• Identify deterioration and take appropriate clinical action.
• Support proactive case management to prevent hospital admissions.

Job description

The Grove Surgery in Christchurch is seeking a Frailty Nurse Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join the South Coast Medical Group PCN on a full-time basis. Based at The Grove Surgery, you will work across the PCN delivering proactive, high-quality frailty care to a predominantly housebound patient population.

This autonomous role combines frailty expertise with advanced assessment, diagnosis, prescribing and clinical decision-making to support improved patient outcomes.