Frailty Nurse

DGS Health LTD; Gravesend; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Gravesend is seeking a Band 7 clinician for its Frailty Team. This role involves working with a multi-disciplinary team to provide quality care for frail patients, handling medication reviews and collaborating with various health providers. Candidates should possess experience in primary care and strong communication skills. This position offers flexibility and opportunities for training and career progression.

Qualifications

• Experience in primary care or community health.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Strong communication skills and relationship-building ability.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe, high quality care to frail patients.
• Liaise with community health and social care providers.
• Complete medication reviews and dementia screenings.

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has been presented for a Band 7 clinician to join our expanding team of healthcare professionals at DGS Health to be part of our Frailty Team. The role will require the individual to work, collaboratively, build relationships and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide safe, high quality care. Working within our Frailty Team offers both variety and flexibility, in terms of your day to day work, training and development, career progression. The fundamental role of the post holder is to meet the primary care needs of an identified group of people identified as frail and needing further support in the community. The post holder will liaise with other community health and social care providers to meet the identified needs of these patients. This workload will involve reviewing medical issues and current problems, completing medication reviews and dementia screening, developing a treatment escalation plan, ensuring all appropriate assessments are completed and developing and implementing an appropriate individualised plan of care. The service is designed to achieve the following:

• A fall in ambulance hospital journeys required by residents of the boroughs of Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley who are deemed as frail
• A drop in hospital attendances for these residents
• A reduction in hospital admissions for these residents
• Improved Health and social care support for these residents and their carers to help them to keep at home and avoid hospital admission.
• Joined up pathways with acute trust, ambulance service, community services, social services, community voluntary services and end of life care to support admission avoidance.

DGS Health is a GP Federation based in Gravesend, North Kent. We are comprised of 100% of local GP practices across Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley. We pride ourselves on being clinically led and managerially enabled and like to ensure we recruit people who share our ethos and culture. We are a small and friendly but growing organisation, employing over 90 people across a range of roles both within our own organisation and within Primary Care Networks. Our services include urgent treatment services, paramedic home visiting, wound care, phlebotomy, care home support, frailty nursing, pharmacy services to name a few. We employ a diverse range of roles including GPs, nurses, administrators, physicians associates, pharmacists, managers, care co-ordinators, HCAs and paramedics.