Junior Nurse Practitioner- Community Frailty Team

Job summary

We are looking for a highly motivated Nurse Practitioner to work within the Sunderland Community Frailty Team in Sunderland. The team consists of Band 7 and Band 6 Nurse Practitioners who are based in each of our six Community Integrated Teams. You will be responsible for out of hospital care assessment and co-ordination of care and services to people who live in their own home or nursing or residential care and are identified as having moderate to severe frailty, multiple co-morbidities, complex needs or who are identified as high intensity service users. You will work as a member of the a Multidisciplinary Team and you will be an autonomous practitioner.

You will be responsible for pro-actively case finding patients with moderate to severe frailty and undertaking comprehensive assessment, personalised care planning, providing support and advice to enhance self-care and improve quality of life for older people and reducing level of frailty wherever possible.

You will work autonomously, assessing individual patient needs, initiating investigations, with support determining a differential diagnosis and initiating appropriate holistic, evidence based treatment and care. You will refer patients who require medical intervention to the appropriate services.

There will be considerable opportunity for innovation, personal development and job satisfaction.

Main duties of the job

As a Junior Nurse Practitioner in the Community Frailty Team you will be an experienced Registered Nurse, who preferably has experience at Band 6 level, you will have a great working knowledge of care of older people and patients with frailty and complex health needs and you will be a confident autonomous professional. You will be a dynamic, approachable and self motivated individual, you will be responsible for ensuring high standards are maintained and you will have a desire for continual improvement.

You will have:

• A full UK driving liscence and access to a car.
• Registered Nurse with NMC.
• A nursing or related degree, or working towards.
• Advanced clinical assessment skills accreditation or willingness to work towards.
• Non medical prescribing qualification or willing to work towards extended prescribing skills.
• Advanced decision making skills.
• Experience of leading service developments and managing change.
• Car driver with access to transportation and a full UK driving license.

Job responsibilities

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One Team One Trust - There are many reasons to work at our Trust. From our commitment to putting people first to our accessible services and award winning teams. We have a passion for research, innovation and tackling inequalities. We are committed to respect, fairness and civility and promote a compassionate, caring and positive culture / working environment.

We welcome all applications irrespective of peoples race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups. Looking after our workforces health and wellbeing is a priority for STSFT. We also provide access to high quality education, training, career progression and support. Flexible working is supported via the Trust's Flexible Working Policy.

The Trust employs around 8,300 people and provides a range of hospital services to a local community of around 430,000 residents. We also provide a range of more specialised services outside this area, in some cases to a population as great as 860,000. We offer our staff outstanding benefits - Fitness Centre (SRH), libraries at both hospital sites, chaplaincy support and access to a Childcare Co-ordinator to help staff with childcare arrangements. The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI generated.