Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Frailty

An opportunity has arisen to join the dynamic, innovative and award winning Frailty Team at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Band 8a).

The role provides specialist assessment and management of Frailty patients in our award winning Frailty Assessment Area. Alongside which we also offer experience of working within ED, AMU and our Care of the Elderly, Frailty and Ortho-geriatric wards to enhance skills and knowledge.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide strategic nursing leadership to the delivery of Frailty services across the organisation, with a specific focus on acute frailty services.

The advanced clinical practitioner role will be primarily focussed within the acute frailty services based within the emergency services of the hospital. The acute frailty service consists of two short stay acute frailty wards, with dedicated therapy teams, a frailty take seeing new patients each day and a consultant led morning ward round seeing new older adults with frailty, based across acute services within the hospital.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.