Frailty Practitioner Home First Response Service

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

Job summary

A leading UK healthcare provider is seeking an Advanced Frailty Practitioner to join the Home First Response Team in Paisley. This full-time role involves collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to support frail patients in maximizing their independence. Ideal candidates will have experience in community health and a passion for service improvement, with education aligned to the Advanced Practitioner Masters PG certificate. Hybrid working opportunities are available.

Qualifications

• Experience in community health or acute care.
• Innovative approach to service improvement.
• Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate communication between teams in acute and community services.
• Support the development of 7-day service provision.
• Maximise patient outcomes through joint clinical decision-making.

Skills

Clinical decision making

Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams

Service improvement

Education

Aligned to the competency framework for the 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.

Role opportunity

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 Renfrewshire HSCP.

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.

Role purpose and settings

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.

Education and training

For the duration of this post, education and training will be aligned to the competency framework for the Advanced Practitioner Masters PG certificate

Working pattern

These posts will be peripatetic working across acute and community to support the development of the 7 day service

Contact and recruitment information

Informal contact: Alison Togher - [e-mail]

Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service and the Recruitment Process: Information for candidates

Application notes

This post may close early to the 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.

Equality and Armed Forces

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.

By signing the Armed Forces Covenant, NHSGGC has pledged its commitment to being a Forces Friendly Employer. We support applications from across the Armed Forces Community, recognising military skills, experience and qualifications during the recruitment and selection process.

Certification and integrity

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