Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Frailty Service

Job overview

Join our dynamic and progressive healthcare team as a trainee Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner and take your career forward as a developing practitioner. As an integral member of our clinical team, you will play a crucial role in evolving our NGHT Frailty service and contribute to our exceptional care in the Emergency Department.

As a trainee AN/CP you will have the opportunity to develop under an experienced medical team identifying Frail patients, undertaking patients' clinical  history, performing clinical assessments (understanding the physiology impact of ageing) develop plans of care and co-ordinate safe effective discharges. Working alongside allied services.

Main duties of the job

The Frailty team work in partnership with the Emergency Department triaging patients' ready for assessment and referral to the Frailty Unit or preparation for discharge.

The team undertake full holistic assessments providing an all inclusive comprehensive Frailty service. The trainee will be fully supported by the Frailty Team when undertaking advanced levels of clinical practice, knowledge and skills.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will have a level of extensive experience in the care of the older person. Acting within their professional boundaries and scope of practice they will be responsible for a level of  assessing presenting patients, history taking, clinical assessment, assisting diagnosis, medication review and evaluation of care. The post holder will have access to Consultant Geriatric and ANP Support.

The post holder will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making care, critical thinking and work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to meet the needs of the patient.

The post holder will support the delivery of policy and procedures,  providing service co-ordination and leadership where required