Band 7- Clinical Nurse Specialist- Frailty

An exciting opportunity has arisen on Frailty Virtual Ward, for a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist - Frailty.

Frailty Virtual Ward is a 30 bedded capacity community base service that aims to support patients, who would otherwise be in hospital, to receive acute care, remote monitoring and treatment they need in their own home or usual place of residence.

You will be expected to support your team, department, and organisation to achieve both trusts' values in your day-to-day work. The role involves working very closely with the Acute Frailty and Virtual Ward multidisciplinary team (MDT) and is pivotal in ensuring all patients within the Virtual Ward receive the best possible care and service.

This exciting new post is available for a dynamic and experienced Nurse with an interest in the provision of care to patients suffering from frailty. You will be required to work autonomously across the BHR area including within the Acute Frailty & emergency departments as well as visiting patients in care homes and in the community, providing a range of services using your enhanced clinical assessment and treatment skills to assess and manage patients.

The virtual ward will initially be for patients who have been admitted to the virtual ward following discharge from an Acute Hospital ward; however, it will develop to accept patients with direct admission from primary care and other community-based providers.

Main duties of the job

This will require staff with skills and understanding. The applicant needs to have a good knowledge base around the needs of all of these patients. The applicant will be expected to demonstrate excellent communication and motivational skills in order to continue the excellent teamwork currently displayed.

Expectations will include continuing with creating a ward that is supportive to all staff, particularly those that are new and junior, and to also continue to develop an environment of quality and innovation, encouraging independent thinking and creativity.

Arrange services and support with other healthcare providers. Act as a referral agent by establishing multi-agency collaboration across primary/secondary interface to meet the needs of the patient, including social needs.

Perform point of care testing and obtain supporting information to inform the assessment of an individual.

Provide clinical interpretation from clinical investigations and determine a treatment plan for an individual.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A& E performance in 2023/24. We're no longer in special measures and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application, please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online; however, queries regarding the application process or assistance with completion of the form (for applicants with a disability) can be made to Tosin Aragbaiye, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5934. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential

• BSc Nursing or working towards
• RGN Experience

Desirable

• MSc
• Diploma in Geriatric Medicine
• Independent/Supplementary Prescribing (V300)

Skills/ Abilities

Essential

• Clinical leadership and decision-making skills.
• Ability to negotiate effectively with different disciplines and all grades of staff
• Full Driving licence

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential

• Experience of teaching medical/nursing staff and AHP
• Good communication skills, knowledge of patients living with dementia and Frailty
• Demonstrate up to date knowledge of best practice and current research in acute elderly/frailty and medical care

Desirable

• Experience in a Virtual Ward environment
• Experience of Quality improvement process implementation
• Experience of Acute & Community working

Employer details

Employer name

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Frailty Virtual Ward
Rom Valley Way
Romford
RM7 0AG

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