Frailty Nurse Practitioner

The Methodist Church in Britain; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced advanced practitioner for a 12-month fixed-term post in the community frailty team. You will manage your own caseload, deliver evidence-based care, and work within a multidisciplinary service to prevent hospital admissions.

Applicants must be NMC registered and able to provide non-medical prescribing or be willing to undertake it. The role offers flexible working options and regular clinical supervision.

Qualifications

• Degree in an appropriate subject.
• Non-medical prescribing, or willingness to undertake the programme.
• Clinical Examination and Clinical Diagnostic CPD modules, or willingness to work towards them.
• Current NMC registration, or active registration on an Allied Health Professional register.
• Experience of stakeholder negotiation and persuasion.
• High level of clinical knowledge and evidence-based practice.

Responsibilities

• Support frailty pathways within an integrated service to deliver evidence-based frailty care and admission avoidance across the local health economy.
• Deliver high-quality care and act as an expert practitioner and role model for the team.
• Demonstrate advanced clinical practice and decision-making, with patient-centred care planning that maximises independence and wellbeing.
• Work within the community frailty team to promote independence, optimisation and prevention of readmission.
• Continue treatment plans as an alternative to hospitalisation.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary care for frail patients, including longer‑term plans to maintain independence and health.
• Manage own workload unsupervised, with appropriate and regular clinical supervision.

Skills

Advanced practice

Evidence-based care

Patient-centered care

Chronic disease management

Communication with staff

Education

NMC registration

Job description

A 12-month fixed-term advanced practice post, with secondment considered, in the community frailty team at Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. The post-holder supports frailty pathways and aims to avoid admissions by delivering evidence-based care across the local health economy. It is a senior clinical role: the holder acts as an expert and role model, manages their own caseload with regular clinical supervision, and works within a multidisciplinary service. Applicants need NMC registration and either non-medical prescribing or a willingness to undertake it.

What the job involves

• Support frailty pathways within an integrated service to deliver evidence-based frailty care and admission avoidance across the local health economy
• Deliver high-quality care and act as an expert practitioner and role model for the team
• Demonstrate advanced clinical practice and decision-making, with patient‑centred care planning that maximises independence and wellbeing
• Work within the community frailty team to promote independence, optimisation and prevention of readmission
• Continue treatment plans as an alternative to hospitalisation
• Facilitate multidisciplinary care for frail patients, including longer‑term plans to maintain independence and health
• Manage own workload unsupervised, with appropriate and regular clinical supervision

What’s required

Qualifications

• Degree in an appropriate subject, or evidence of degree‑level education
• Non‑medical prescribing, or willingness to undertake the programme
• Clinical Examination and Clinical Diagnostic CPD modules, or willingness to work towards them

Registration & licences

• Current NMC registration, or active registration on an appropriate Allied Health Professional register

Experience

• Experience of stakeholder negotiation and persuasion

Skills & knowledge

• High level of clinical knowledge, including current evidence‑based practice
• Sound understanding of advanced practitioner expectations, including service outcomes
• Competence in assessing patient needs to develop case management plans
• Knowledge of chronic disease management and of governance principles in the service area
• Ability to communicate complex pathologies and diagnostic reasoning to medical and non‑medical staff at all levels
• Problem‑solving and decision‑making in clinical practice

Other

• Ability to analyse and interpret data and complex evidence and apply it to practice
• Developing health education and information in varied formats for a wide range of stakeholders

What’s offered

• Support for flexible working, including term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi‑time
• Wellbeing resources, tools and support