Nurse Consultant Frailty Same Day Services

Job overview

Nurse Consultant Frailty Same Day Services,

1 vacancy Carlisle, 1 vacancy Whitehaven

Are you a dynamic and motivated clinician?  Are you focussed on patient centred care and choice?

Do you want to be involved in an exciting new Frailty service in North Cumbria – if so we want to hear from you!

North Cumbria has an ageing population and is seeing more older people living with frailty in our emergency departments and on our wards. We know that a hospital stay makes it less likely that an elderly person can return home and live independently so we have introduced a new Frailty Hub to provide a same day service.

After a successful pilot, the service is now being permanently funded in both Whitehaven and Carlisle; therefore we are looking for dynamic and motivated team members to join our ambitious, multi-disciplinary team. We want to hear from people who are passionate about our vision to provide more care closer to home and enhance the care we provide to older people living with frailty. The NHS 10 year plan is making three big shifts in how the NHS works:

• From hospital to community – more care will be available on people’s doorsteps and in their homes
• From sickness to prevention: we’ll reach patients earlier and make the healthy choice the easy choice

We are making steps towards these shifts but we now need to make further moves to help us provide the right care, in the right place, at the right time.

Main duties of the job

Our Senior decision makers will be a composite workforce of those with expertise in Frailty to support expert decision making and management plans.  They will support and supervise a junior team in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of undifferentiated patients living with frailty.  They will spend time in the Frailty Hub, Community Hospitals and in time in reach to Urgent Community Response.  The role will require close working with the Emergency Department, SDEC, Acute Medical and Virtual Ward teams.  Close liaison with back of house teams to provide seamless transfer of patients when appropriate.  The role will involve senior decisions for the Virtual ward and in time an out of hours commitment to support weekend and evening decisions.

The Consultant Nurse/AHP for Frailty Same Day Services will provide highly specialised clinical expertise, consultancy, expert advice and leadership to patients, carers and Trust staff with a particular focus on people living with frailty and the development of services for this population.

The post holder will fulfil a clear strategic clinical leadership role to promote and improve the care and services to older people across the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

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Disclosure and Barring Service:

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £21.50 + Administration cost of £6.50 = £28.00. Deducted from salary over following 4 months or one off payment.

Enhanced Check: £49.50 + administration cost of £6.50 = £56.00. Deducted from salary over following 4 months or one off payment.

NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:

27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

Flexible working Scheme

NHS Discounts*

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*

Excellent opportunities for development*

Competitive NHS Pension scheme

Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems

*Subject to eligibility

Important Information

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.