Frailty Lead (Community Matron / ACP / ANP / Advanced Paramedic)

The Methodist Church in Britain; England; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Meridian Primary Care Network is seeking a Frailty Lead to assess, triage and refer frail patients in the community across six GP surgeries. The role involves home visits, care home work and autonomy to manage your caseload.

You will mentor Nursing Associates and HCAs while collaborating with surgery teams. Flexibility to work remotely or from home, with opportunities to engage with future ICB frailty initiatives and maintain patient partnerships.

Qualifications

• Able to communicate complex information clearly to patients, families and colleagues.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience in advanced practice and primary care settings.

Responsibilities

• Assess, triage and refer frail and multi-morbid patients.
• Carry out home visits and care home visits.
• Mentor and provide clinical support to team staff.

Skills

Complex communication

Clinical decision-making

Time management

Interprofessional collaboration

Education

Master's level advanced clinical practice

Teaching qualification

ALS & PALS

Tools

SystmOne

EMIS

Job description

One of two Frailty Lead posts sits in the Meridian Primary Care Network's community frailty team, covering six GP surgeries. The work centres on assessing, triaging and referring frail, housebound and recently discharged patients, including home visits and care home work. The role offers flexible working and home or remote working, with a high degree of autonomy, and includes mentoring Nursing Associates and HCAs. Applicants need a registered healthcare professional with an advanced practice master's qualification; a prescribing ANP or ACP is ideal.

What the job involves

• Assess, triage and refer frail and multi-morbid patients, including those housebound or recently discharged
• Carry out home visits and ongoing care in the community and care homes
• Manage own caseload with a high degree of autonomy
• Work with older people in surgery and in the community
• Mentor and provide clinical support to team staff, including Nursing Associates and HCAs
• Engage patients as active partners in their treatment and support
• Support onward referral to secondary and specialist services
• Develop and maintain close relationships with surgery teams
• Build professional networks and knowledge of local health and social care resources
• Promote awareness of the professional role across the PCN
• Keep accurate written and electronic records, activity data and specialist reports on SystmOne and EMIS
• Promote and safeguard the welfare of vulnerable adults

What’s required

Qualifications

• Master's-level advanced clinical practice qualification under the HEE multi-professional framework
• Teaching qualification
• ALS and PALS

Registration & licences

• Qualified healthcare professional registered on their appropriate professional register, with evidence of continuing professional development

Experience

• Experience of practice within the four pillars of advanced practice
• Job plan showing advanced clinical practice with equity with peers at this level
• Experience of working in a primary care environment

Skills & knowledge

• Communicating complex, sensitive information clearly with patients, families and healthcare professionals by phone, email and face to face
• Maintaining accurate records and using IT (word processing, email, internet) to produce simple plans and reports
• Time management, handling sudden demands and working well under pressure with emotional resilience

Checks & eligibility

• Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check

Other

• Working within legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, including safeguarding, confidentiality, lone working and information governance
• Identifying and managing risk when working with individuals
• Flexible, cooperative and calm, using own initiative, respecting diversity and empathetic in distressing situations
• Flexibility to work outside core office hours and to engage with future ICB and neighbourhood frailty initiatives
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality regularly, including to people's homes

Nice to have

• Qualified independent prescriber (V300)
• Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews