Consultant Practitioner (Frailty Services)

Here at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate colleague to join us in the development of the next stages of our Frailty SDEC Unit and co-located Frailty Short Stay Unit as a Consultant Practitioner for Frailty Services., We are looking to further develop our pathways to enable direct referral/step up from our primary care, community and ambulance colleagues into the Frailty SDEC. With a new Divisional Director of Nursing and AHPs joining us early in 2025 alongside a newly appointed Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing and AHPs, we are now looking to expand the senior clinical non-medical workforce within the division to enhance the clinical management within the division.

We welcome individuals who can bring new ideas to the table to improve our services for the people that we care for. You will work alongside a dedicated frailty multidisciplinary team incorporating Nurses, AHPs, Pharmacists, Doctors and General Practitioners. The division is focused on ensuring patients receive the right care, in the right place by the right person every time.

Main duties of the job

You will join a team of skilled frailty practitioners including nurses, AHPs, pharmacists and medical team (incorporating Geriatricians and General Practitioners) acting as an expert clinical Consultant Practitioner demonstrating advanced clinical skills and knowledge to enable the management of frailty patients within the Frailty SDEC and wider community services.

You will work as an autonomous Consultant Practitioner within the Frailty SDEC and associated frailty short stay unit and wider community services with a 70% clinical practice and 30% leadership split role. You will be required to make independent clinical decisions and initiate investigations, direct and use the results of specialist investigations (e.g. blood tests, chest x-rays, ECG's, CT scans etc.) to assist in the formulation of diagnosis and plans of care and treatment leading to the patient's discharge back into the community.

You will be responsible for developing and leading on advanced clinical care practice standards, clinical supervision and governance structure for a future workforce of ACP's within frailty services and across the community division. You will work closely with ED and Community Response Team (CRT) ensuring timely transfer of frailty patients to the Frailty SDEC service.

You will be a frailty subject matter expert developing trust wide policies, guidelines and pathways to ensure older and frail people have seamless access to the right care in the right place at the right time.

The post holder will be an experienced advanced level practitioner with a non-medical prescribing qualification (NMP), working autonomous with expert skills in assessment, examination and providing diagnosis and management for patients across the frailty pathway including community services.

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.