Frailty Nurse

Found in: Talent UK C2 - 2 weeks ago


St Albans, United Kingdom Parkbury House Surgery Full time
About the Role

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced frailty nurse to join our expanding clinical team at Parkbury House Surgery, on a part time basis for hours per week, although this is flexible.

The team aims to deliver a service to individuals with complex and long-term health needs, to promote health and well-being, encourage and promote self-care and independence, while aiming to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and attendances. We aim to deliver this service in practice, in the patients’ own home or in a care home setting, dependent on the patients needs.

As well as developing and maintaining clinical skills to a high standard you will be expected to have skills and experience in other areas essential to the role such as long term conditions, dementia and frailty, ideally you will also be a prescriber with a minor illness qualification.

You will need to be able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for patients with long term or complex frailty needs, recognising individual physical and psychological needs and observing the principles of holistic care when planning treatment, which are sensitive to the ethnic, cultural and spiritual needs of the patient.

You will be able to provide evidence based clinical care with measurable standards and outcomes, aiming to improve care and quality of life, with an awareness of up-to date local and national guidelines in subjects relevant to the role.

You will be able to work as part of a team, supporting and complimenting the skills of the GPs, clinical pharmacists and other nurses to deliver a holistic service to our patients, while supporting and collaborating with the care team in the care homes and the wider multidisciplinary team who have an input into the care of our patients.

Please see full job description attached.

About the Candidate All applicants should have the following qualifications, registrations, skills and experience: A relevant nursing degree. Current NMC registration with an active PIN. Management of long-term conditions. Experience in minor illness. Involvement in implementing and using protocols and clinical guidelines.  Experience of audits. Knowledge of needs of patients with long term conditions. Aware of accountability of own role and other roles in nurse-led services. Knowledge of health promotion strategies. Awareness of clinical governance issues in primary care.
About Us Our practice operates from two sites with eight GP partners, seven salaried GPs, a large nursing team and over 40 non-clinical staff, providing care to over 21,000 patients. We are also a GP training practice. For further information please contact:

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.


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