Frailty Nurse - Home Visits & Geriatric Assessments

The Methodist Church in Britain; Weymouth; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The Frailty Nurse role in Weymouth is employed by Two Harbours Healthcare, a not-for-profit body led by local GP practices. You will conduct home visits for structured baseline assessments, ECGs and phlebotomy, while coordinating with a multidisciplinary team.

Essential are full NMC registration and own transport. You will work within the frailty team to deliver proactive geriatric assessments and personalised care plans, with demand for robust data recording in SystmOne.

Qualifications

• Full NMC registration with licence to practise.
• Written and spoken English adequate for communicating medical topics with patients and colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Deliver EHCH (enhanced health in care homes).
• Carry out proactive, routine Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments for patients in their own homes.
• Complete baseline home assessments on a structured template covering continence, skin, nutrition, care needs and unmet needs.
• Complete Personalised Care and Support Plans focused on what matters most to the patient.
• Make timely referrals to the wider multi-professional and third sector teams, and attend MDT meetings when requested.
• Proactively identify patients who would benefit from a holistic assessment.
• Support Ageing Well in the community, slowing or reversing the progression of frailty.
• Assess patients re-referred with frailty-related decline.
• Collect basic observations, carry out ECGs and phlebotomy.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary discussions and parts of the Dorset Care Plan.
• Support comprehensive data collection.
• Keep contemporaneous SystmOne records, monitor work email and mobile, and manage own workload.

Skills

English communication

Education

NMC registration (Full) with licence to practise

Job description

The Frailty Nurse role in Weymouth is employed by Two Harbours Healthcare, a not-for-profit body led by local GP practices. You will conduct home visits for structured baseline assessments, ECGs and phlebotomy, while coordinating with a multidisciplinary team.

Essential are full NMC registration and own transport. You will work within the frailty team to deliver proactive geriatric assessments and personalised care plans, with demand for robust data recording in SystmOne.