One of two Frailty Lead posts sits in the Meridian Primary Care Network's community frailty team, covering six GP surgeries. The work centres on assessing, triaging and referring frail, housebound and recently discharged patients, including home visits and care home work. The role offers flexible working and home or remote working, with a high degree of autonomy, and includes mentoring Nursing Associates and HCAs. Applicants need a registered healthcare professional with an advanced practice master's qualification; a prescribing ANP or ACP is ideal.
What the job involves
- Assess, triage and refer frail and multi-morbid patients, including those housebound or recently discharged
- Carry out home visits and ongoing care in the community and care homes
- Manage own caseload with a high degree of autonomy
- Work with older people in surgery and in the community
- Mentor and provide clinical support to team staff, including Nursing Associates and HCAs
- Engage patients as active partners in their treatment and support
- Support onward referral to secondary and specialist services
- Develop and maintain close relationships with surgery teams
- Build professional networks and knowledge of local health and social care resources
- Promote awareness of the professional role across the PCN
- Keep accurate written and electronic records, activity data and specialist reports on SystmOne and EMIS
- Promote and safeguard the welfare of vulnerable adults
What’s required
Qualifications
- Master's-level advanced clinical practice qualification under the HEE multi-professional framework
- Teaching qualification
- ALS and PALS
Registration & licences
- Qualified healthcare professional registered on their appropriate professional register, with evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
- Experience of practice within the four pillars of advanced practice
- Job plan showing advanced clinical practice with equity with peers at this level
- Experience of working in a primary care environment
Skills & knowledge
- Communicating complex, sensitive information clearly with patients, families and healthcare professionals by phone, email and face to face
- Maintaining accurate records and using IT (word processing, email, internet) to produce simple plans and reports
- Time management, handling sudden demands and working well under pressure with emotional resilience
Checks & eligibility
- Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
Other
- Working within legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, including safeguarding, confidentiality, lone working and information governance
- Identifying and managing risk when working with individuals
- Flexible, cooperative and calm, using own initiative, respecting diversity and empathetic in distressing situations
- Flexibility to work outside core office hours and to engage with future ICB and neighbourhood frailty initiatives
- Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality regularly, including to people's homes
Nice to have
- Qualified independent prescriber (V300)
- Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
