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Location

Camberley, Surrey | United Kingdom

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Job description

The frailty team is responsible for providing comprehensive geriatric assessments (CGAs) for older people attending the acute hospital with a frailty syndrome (i.e. falls, reduced mobility, altered cognition, poly pharmacy). You will work alongside, and be supported by, a consultant geriatrician, nurse consultant/ advanced frailty practitioner; and a team of multidisciplinary frailty practitioners that includes nurses, medics, occupational therapist, physiotherapist and pharmacist).

As a Frailty Practitioner (both NMC and HCPC registrants will be considered), you will work within the Emergency Department, Frailty SDEC, or Acute Medical Unit to assess older patients who have experienced a frailty crisis leading to hospital admission: to facilitate safe discharge where possible, or admission to hospital if required. You will also provide advice and/or CGAs for older people with frailty admitted to medical or surgical wards (without geriatrician cover) who have a frailty presentation.

For any questions, please contact Sophie Rees at [email protected]

Louise Duvall at [email protected]
• To work closely with the Consultant Nurse , Lead Frailty Clinical Practitioners, Frailty Practitioners, in-reach GPs and the Consultant Geriatrician team to provide effective and reactive services for patients with decompensated frailty
• Provide high quality innovative clinical practice. Be proactive in clinical decision making, underpinned by an advanced level of theoretical and practical knowledge
• To work closely with the Consultant Nurses for Older People, the Frailty Practitioners, in-reach GPs and the Consultant Geriatrician team patients to proactively identify and manage patients with frailty
• Undertake Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments for individuals presenting with frailty and their carers where needs are highly complex.
• To work autonomously using advanced levels of history taking and assessment within multidisciplinary team, guidelines and protocols.
• Utilise advanced clinical skills in assessment and/or formulate a diagnosis and/or treatment and management plan. To present the patients case to the Consultant on post take ward round when hospital admission is considered necessary.

There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.

Please refer to the attached JD & PS with all the details in relation to this role - Please ensure that your application is benchmarked against these requirements

This advert closes on Wednesday 6 Mar 2024

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