Frailty Clinical Nurse Specialist

Imperial College Healthcare NHS; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the United Kingdom is seeking a Clinical Nurse Specialist to join the Frailty Team. The successful candidate will provide expert nursing care for frail patients and lead comprehensive assessments, aiming for admission avoidance. The role involves close collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, staff education, and covering both St Mary's and Charing Cross sites. This position offers an opportunity to work within a vibrant environment dedicated to patient care and professional growth.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing initiatives

Staff recognition scheme

Optional benefits like Cycle to Work

Qualifications

• Experience working with frail patients, ideally within frailty services.
• Ability to cover both St Mary's and Charing Cross sites.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert nursing care and specialist advice related to frailty.
• Lead on comprehensive geriatric assessments for appropriate patients.
• Support early intervention for admissions avoidance.
• Participate in staff education and development.

Skills

Experience with frail patients

Ability to conduct comprehensive geriatric assessments

Passion for older people's care

Effective collaboration with multidisciplinary teams

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a clinical nurse specialist to join the evolving Frailty Team. The Frailty Team currently provide an in-reach service into the Emergency Departments (ED) at both our St Mary's and Charing Cross hospitals, assessing patients using a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) framework, with the aim of admission avoidance.

The service is looking to expand its service by providing rapid access clinics for complex case management and admission avoidance.

The successful applicant will have experience working with frail patients, ideally within specific frailty services. The role will involve specialist assessments to expertly meet the needs of this complex cohort of patients. Most importantly, the successful applicant will have a passion for older people's care.

Please note that this position requires the successful applicant to be able to cover both the St Mary's and Charing Cross sites. Currently the service does not operate at weekends and bank holidays. This is subject to change as the service expands.

Responsibilities

• Working as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), the post holder will offer expert nursing care and specialist advice, particularly in relation to frailty syndromes, ensuring high-quality and individualised care for patients, their families, and carers.
• They will lead on comprehensive geriatric assessments (CGA) for appropriate patients, obtaining relevant social and medical histories from patients, families, care providers and 24-hour care facilities.
• They will exercise professional accountability in all aspects of frailty care delivery, working independently within scope of practice and collaborating effectively with the wider MDT.
• They will support patient flow through early intervention and identifying patients who are suitable for admissions avoidance, as well as those who would benefit from an admission with early identification of their needs.
• They will also be actively involved in staff education and development, including utilising appropriate learning opportunities and act as a mentor and resource for student nurses, adaptation and unqualified members of the nursing team.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career. We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.