Frailty Practitioner

Job overview

Are you looking for a new opportunity to enhance your knowledge and care of patients living with frailty? Mid Dorset Hub have an opportunity for an 8 month secondment/maternity cover, to explore this exciting and rewarding area of healthcare.

As a Frailty Practitioner you will provide proactive support to people in their own homes and this is an opportunity to help provide care to our patients in a truly integrated way, working with the services across the neighbourhood.

You will provide both proactive and reactive care to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions by supporting individuals to remain in their own homes by undertaking holistic and generalist assessments at the point of need. You will assist individuals and their carers to proactively anticipate their future health needs, support self-care, develop appropriate plans, manage deterioration via early intervention and work collaboratively with the wider MDT Team to promote improved outcomes and the management of frailty.

The service is covered 8.30 to 16.30 with a possible future weekend rota as the service develops.

Applications from candidates that require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are unfortunately ineligible to apply for this position.

This is a fixed term role and for those with current NHS service, the role will be offered on a secondment basis only. Please obtain permission to be released on a secondment before submitting an application.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high quality person centred approach to care delivery which always considers people’s safety, privacy and dignity.

To provide specialist care and interventions, assessments, treatments and managing patients on a caseload, as part of the wider multi-disciplinary care team.

To provide specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of patients / service users.

To devise specialist programmes of care for other professionals to deliver and ensure they are delivered appropriately.

To plan, implement and review health improvement programmes in a range of settings.

Provide supervision, mentorship, training and clinical support to students and trained practitioners.

The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate skills in communication, organisation, caseload management, autonomous working, problem solving and innovative thinking to inform service development.

Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of. Applicants who subscribe to the DBS update service are able to present a valid DBS certificate instead of requiring a new check.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.

We understand that AI can be a useful tool when completing your application. However, we are seeing an increasing over-reliance of AI tools, which can negatively affect your application as it reduces a candidate’s individuality, and makes it difficult for us to gain a clear and authentic understanding of your experience, skills, and in turn your suitability for the role. All submissions must be truthful and if you do use AI, it should only be used to enhance your application and not create your supporting statement in its entirety. Your supporting statement should be in your own words and must accurately reflect your personal experience and achievements. Where we have concerns that AI has been used to generate content that misrepresents your experience and suitability for the role, we may withdraw your application.

Dorset HealthCare is in partnership with The Prince’s Trust to support people getting into work, as part of this partnership, we offer an employability service to support individuals between 16-30 years old with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. Please contact dhc.wideningparticipation@nhs.net to access the support.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.