Frailty Practitioner - Urgent Community Response

NHS; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000

Job description

Frailty Practitioner - Urgent Community Response

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Frailty Practitioner (Nurse or Paramedic) -- Urgent Community Response (UCR) and Hospital at Home Frailty Virtual Ward Team (H@HVW)

We're looking for a Registered Nurse or Paramedic to join our Urgent Community Response (UCR) team, and Hospital at Home Frailty Virtual Ward Team (H@HVW) delivering rapid, high-quality care to patients in their own homes and preventing hospital admissions where safe to do so.

As a Frailty Practitioner, you'll work closely with Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs), trainee ACPs, Consultant Practitioners, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and Health Care Support Workers to provide timely treatment and care planning following initial assessments by senior team members.

Main duties of the job

What You'll Be Doing:

1. Supporting admission avoidance by delivering treatment and care planning after an initial assessment by senior team members.
2. Collaborating with the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) to provide person-centred care.
3. Delivering interventions at home to include but not limited to holistic frailty reviews placing the person at the centre of care, re-assessing and monitoring treatment plans, point of care testing, IV fluids, IV antibiotics, ECG's.
4. Delegating tasks and supervising junior staff.
5. Working on the Falls Car, alongside SCAS, to assist uninjured fallers and ensure safe recovery at home with a full holistic and functional review.

Our service is delivered over 7 days, 8am-8pm. We offer flexible working, but the ideal candidate will be able to work flexibly within these hours including working 1 weekend in 4.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional UK registration e.g. NMC / HCPC
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD) clearly recorded for professional profile
• Able to demonstrate a good command of the English Language both written and verbal
• Computer Literate in both data entry and communicating via IT - emails and reports

Experience

• Experience working with frail patients or those with exacerbation of long-term conditions.

Additional Criteria

• Full driving license and access to a car
• Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post which will include travel to other areas of the trust for training and home visits to patients place of residence

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Salary: £37,338 to £44,962 a year based on full time hours.