Clinical Nurse Specialist - Acute Frailty

We are recruiting for Specialist Therapist for Acute Frailty who wishes to join  #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “great people, great place”.

We are delighted have investment in the development of an Acute Frailty service at St Mary's Hospital. The service will be led by a Consultant Nurse/ Practitioner. This Specialist Therapy post is open to both Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists with a proven history of frailty expertise, clinical and service leadership.

This is a new post created as part of the new acute frailty team working primarily within the emergency care floor, with in-reach into acute wards, assessing needs, providing same day services, and supporting the effective use of alternatives to acute care including SDEC, virtual wards and community rapid response services.

The creation of an acute frailty team contributes to the Trust’s strategic objective of Home First – enabling people to remain safely in their normal place of residence – by better meeting the needs of people aged 65 and over living with moderate to severe frailty.

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.

To become a member of a high functioning team Acute frailty delivering a quality comprehensive service to patients with Frailty.

To work under direction of the specialist therapist to provide frailty assessment, clinical care and treatment of patients within the acute frailty pathway.

Under direction of the specialist therapist you will work primarily within the emergency care floor and in-reach into acute wards, liaising appropriately with acute therapy teams in order to assess needs, providing same day services, as well as supporting the effective use of alternatives to acute care including SDEC, virtual wards and community rapid response services.

Under direction of the specialist therapist for acute frailty, contribute to the delivery of frailty awareness activities across acute service.