Frailty Practitioner

Providing services to support our frail elderly patients trust wide in a variety of settings.
- Conducting thorough patient histories.
- Conducting clinical assessments.
- Requesting appropriate investigations, e.g bloods, X-ray, CT scans etc, where necessary.
- Interpreting the results of investigations.
- Making differential diagnosis following assessment and investigations.
- Commencing treatment plans following diagnosis including prescribing where necessary.
- Caring for our patients in a holistic manner ensuring any additional referrals to other health care professionals are made to meet all of their individual care needs.
- Working across a variety of areas including the Emergency department, wards and some clinic work.
- This job will involve working at the interface with Elderly Care consultants.
- The post holder will develop the Scope of Nursing Practice and provide nursing excellence in patient care for our Elderly population. This will reinforce the concept of patient-centred care and take forward the Trust’s vision within Care of the Elderly.
- To provide specialist and advanced clinical skills support to medical staff and the nursing team.
- To triage patients, prioritising clinical need, highlighting and initiating treatment plans by following agreed Trust guidelines and protocols.
- To work autonomously assessing individual patient needs, initiating investigations, determining a differential diagnosis and initiating appropriate holistic, evidence based treatment and care.
- To co-ordinate clinical and support services whilst maintaining or improving the service.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching

to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.