Frailty Practitioner
Dorset Healthcare University Nhs Foundation Trust
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Job summary
Dorset HealthCare's Mid Dorset Hub is seeking a Frailty Practitioner on a fixed-term 8-month secondment to enhance care for patients living with frailty. You will deliver proactive and reactive home-based care, work with the MDT, and help prevent hospital admissions.
The role runs 8:30–16:30 with potential weekend rota; DBS checks required; NHS service experience preferred; Band 6 under Agenda for Change.
Qualifications
- Registered practitioner with degree/diploma plus post-registration specialist training or short courses.
- Membership of the relevant Professional Body.
- Learning and Assessing in Practice qualification.
- Evidence of recent professional development (CPD).
- Non-Medical Prescriber where appropriate.
- Willingness to undertake PMVA training.
Responsibilities
- Provide high quality person-centred care, ensuring safety, privacy and dignity.
- Deliver specialist care to a caseload as part of the MDT.
- Offer specialist advice on management and care of patients.
- Devise specialist care programmes for other professionals.
- Plan, implement and review health improvement programmes.
- Provide supervision, mentorship, training and clinical support to students and practitioners.
- Demonstrate communication, organisation, caseload management and autonomous working.
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Job description
Are you looking for a new opportunity to enhance your knowledge and care of patients living with frailty? Mid Dorset Hub have an opportunity for an 8 month secondment/maternity cover, to explore this exciting and rewarding area of healthcare.
As a Frailty Practitioner you will provide proactive support to people in their own homes and this is an opportunity to help provide care to our patients in a truly integrated way, working with the services across the neighbourhood.
You will provide both proactive and reactive care to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions by supporting individuals to remain in their own homes by undertaking holistic and generalist assessments at the point of need. You will assist individuals and their carers to proactively anticipate their future health needs, support self-care, develop appropriate plans, manage deterioration via early intervention and work collaboratively with the wider MDT Team to promote improved outcomes and the management of frailty.
The service is covered 8.30 to 16.30 with a possible future weekend rota as the service develops.
Applications from candidates that require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are unfortunately ineligible to apply for this position.
This is a fixed term role and for those with current NHS service, the role will be offered on a secondment basis only. Please obtain permission to be released on a secondment before submitting an application.
To provide a high quality person centred approach to care delivery which always considers people's safety, privacy and dignity.
To provide specialist care and interventions, assessments, treatments and managing patients on a caseload, as part of the wider multi-disciplinary care team.
To provide specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of patients / service users.
To devise specialist programmes of care for other professionals to deliver and ensure they are delivered appropriately.
To plan, implement and review health improvement programmes in a range of settings.
Provide supervision, mentorship, training and clinical support to students and trained practitioners.
The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate skills in communication, organisation, caseload management, autonomous working, problem solving and innovative thinking to inform service development.
Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of. Applicants who subscribe to the DBS update service are able to present a valid DBS certificate instead of requiring a new check.
At Dorset HealthCare we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We're a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.
We do things differently here - it's one of the reasons the CQC rated us 'outstanding' in 2019. It's also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you're looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.
Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.
Working with us you'll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don't know. And you'll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.
- Date posted: 14 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 6
- Salary: £21,311 to £25,662 a year p.a.
- Contract: Fixed term
- Duration: 8 months
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: 152-C151.26
- Job locations: Mid Dorset Hub, Dorchester, Acland Road, Dorchester, DT1 1SH, United Kingdom
For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.
We understand that AI can be a useful tool when completing your application. However, we are seeing an increasing over-reliance of AI tools, which can negatively affect your application as it reduces a candidates individuality, and makes it difficult for us to gain a clear and authentic understanding of your experience, skills, and in turn your suitability for the role.All submissions must be truthful and if you do use AI, it should only be used to enhance your application and not create your supporting statement in its entirety. Your supporting statement should be in your own words and must accurately reflect your personal experience and achievements. Where we have concerns that AI has been used to generate content that misrepresents your experience and suitability for the role, we may withdraw your application.
Dorset HealthCare is in partnership with The Princes Trust to support people getting into work, as part of this partnership, we offer an employability service to support individuals between 16-30 years old with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. Please contact dhc.wideningparticipation@nhs.net to access the support.
- Registered practitioner to degree/diploma level supplemented by post registration diploma level specialist training and/or short courses or demonstrable extensive experience in the relevant specialty
- Membership of the relevant Professional Body
- Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
- Evidence of recent professional development in an up to date portfolio
- Non-Medical Prescriber (if professionally appropriate)
- Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role
- Experience at Practitioner Band 6 level
- Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice
- Experience of managing change
- Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and therapeutic interventions in area of specialism
- Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention.
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
- Trained in PMVA techniques or willing to be trained.
- Recent previous experience within a comparable role
- Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff
- Experience of devising and delivering training
- Able to effectively manage available resources in the pursuit of quality service provision ensuring a safe environment
- Able to analyse data and produce reports using Microsoft Excel and Word
- Experience of using electronic patient / service user record systems
- Evidence of demonstrating the Trust's values and behaviours.
- Enhanced Physical Assessment Skills or HAPE
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. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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