Frailty Practitioner - Home First Response Service

NHS Scotland; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in Glasgow seeks an Advanced Frailty Practitioner to join the Home First Response Team. This full-time role involves working within a multidisciplinary team to support patients with frailty, maximizing their independence and wellbeing. Successful candidates will have a background as a Nurse, AHP, or Pharmacist and will facilitate high-level clinical decision-making across services. Applications are encouraged from all sections of the community.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse, AHP or Pharmacist.
• Experience in a multidisciplinary healthcare environment.
• Proven communication and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Home First Response Team to support patients with frailty.
• Facilitate communication between acute and community services.
• Participate in service improvement initiatives.

Skills

Experience in healthcare

Communication skills

Teamwork in multi-disciplinary settings

Education

Registered practice as Nurse, AHP or Pharmacist

Competency framework for Advanced Practitioner Masters PG certificate

Job description

Overview

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Nurse, AHP or Pharmacist to become part of the Home First Response Team as an Advanced Frailty Practitioner/trainee within either Renfrewshire HSCP or Glasgow City HSCP.

Role details

The post is full-time although part time options may be considered for a period of 1 year to provide resilience to the service expanding to cover 7 days. This is being offered as either fixed term or a secondment opportunity and as such applicants for secondment require agreement from their current line manager prior to application.

This post is set within a multidisciplinary team working across acute and community supporting those with frailty to maximise their independence and wellbeing within their local communities, supporting early discharge and preventing avoidable hospital admissions.

Team and scope

We welcome applications from experienced and innovative practitioners with an appetite for service improvement and self-development, from across the NMAHP and pharmacy workforce. This specialist Band 7 post will work across the primary secondary interface, and join a team of Frailty Practitioners aligned within acute front doors in Renfrewshire and Glasgow City HSCP areas. Critical to the success of this role will be facilitating and enabling communication between and within multi-disciplinary teams across acute and community services. The frailty practitioners work as a virtual network and enable high level joint clinical decision making, with regard to right care, right place and right time to maximise patient outcomes.

For the duration of this post, education and training will be aligned to the competency framework for the Advanced Practitioner Masters PG certificate. These posts will be peripatetic working across acute and community to support the development of the 7 day service. Please indicate whether you would prefer a post in Glasgow or Renfrewshire within your application.

There are 4 posts, 2 within Glasgow City HSCP and 2 within Renfrewshire HSCP.

Qualifications and requirements

Informal contact: ANDI SHOWELL - Andrea.showell@nhsScot

Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service and the Recruitment Process: Information for candidates (no link included here).

Additional notes

This post may close early due to volume of response. Please submit your application form as soon as possible.

Due to the volume of applications that we receive, we will not be able to provide shortlisting feedback.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde– NHS Scotland encourages applications from all sections of the community. We promote a culture of inclusion across the organisation and are proud of the diverse workforce we have.

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