Frailty Nurse

Weymouth & Portland Primary Care Network; Weymouth; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Weymouth and Portland PCN is seeking a Frailty Nurse to join the team delivering proactive care to frail patients in the community, including housebound individuals.

The role involves home visits, baseline assessments, ECG and phlebotomy, and coordinating with a multi-disciplinary team to support patients and reduce hospital admissions. Experience in elderly care is valued, with a focus on holistic, patient-centred care.

Qualifications

• Hold Full Registration with the NMC plus Licence to Practise.
• Current UK professional registration is required.

Responsibilities

• Conduct home visits to assess baseline needs.
• Perform ECG and phlebotomy as part of assessments.
• Make referrals to MDT as appropriate.
• Contribute to Dorset Care Plan and data collection.
• Maintain comprehensive record keeping and documentation.

Skills

Written English

Communication

Education

NMC Registration

Job description

Job summary

You will be working for all of the Practices in Weymouth and Portland PCN - The Bridges Medical Centre, Dorchester Road surgery, Cross Road Surgery, Wyke Regis & Lanehouse Medical Practice, Royal Manor Healthcare, Royal Crescent & Preston Road Surgery.

The Weymouth and Portland practices have a well established Frailty team which has been expanding since April 2015 to provide proactive holistic care for complex frail patients who are living in care homes or housebound and has also established an Ageing Well Clinic in 2022. This team is led by a General Practitioner and has a team of Frailty Practitioners who are Nurses, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, paramedics, Occupational Therapist and are supported by a Frailty Care Coordinator and 2 Frailty Health Care Assistants. There is a focus on ongoing case finding using risk profiling measures (EFI) and population health management (DiiS).

Main duties of the job

The main aims of the service are to:

• Deliver EHCH (enhanced health in care homes)
• Provide proactive, routine assessments based on a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment to patients living in their own homes
• To make timely referrals to the wider multi-professional team to improve overall wellbeing reduce risk of falls, reduce risk of deterioration and reduce risk of hospital admission.
• To complete Personalised Care and Support Plans, focusing on what matters most to the patient
• To proactively identify patients who would benefit from a holistic assessment
• To support Ageing Well in the community, with a focus on reducing the progression of frailty / reversing this where possible
• To assess patient who have been re-referred with frailty related decline
• Effective team work to ensure the right patient is seen by the right staff member at the right time

About us

Two Harbours Healthcare is a not for profit organisation led by local General Practices in Weymouth and Portland. Our goal is to work more closely together (and with stakeholders) to share expertise, resources and provide services for the NHS.

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose / Clinical responsibilities

Based on an integrated approach, the Frailty Nurse will join the existing team, working to improve care for patients living with Frailty in the community.

Housebound patients, or those who are best assessed in their own homes:

• An integral member of the WECS team
• Home visits to identified patients to complete baseline assessments using an agreed proforma on a structured template to include (but not exclusively) continence, skin, nutritional status, care needs and unmet needs.
• Collection of basic observations
• ECG and phlebotomy
• A combination of new visits and follow up visits
• Make referrals to the wider MDT (including third sector) if and when appropriate
• Contribute to Multi-disciplinary discussions in order to support the patients care and support
• Support with comprehensive data collectionContribute towards completion of parts of the Dorset Care Plan

Other:

• Attendance at MDT meetings if requested to do so
• Comprehensive record keeping on SystmOne, using bespoke templates
• Ensure work emails are regularly accessed
• Ensure work mobile is carried at all times and that messages are picked up at regular intervals through the working day
• Manage workload effectively and ensure that sufficiently detailed contemporaneous notes are kept at all times.

Person Specification

Other

Essential

• Access to a means of transport to facilitate movement between sites

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues.

Qualifications

Essential

• Hold Full Registration with the NMC plus Licence to Practise

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.