Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Frailty Practitioner
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Role Overview
The role would be to work as an Elderly Nurse Practitioner rotating between our general hospital sites, community hospital sites and the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH). Our team of nurse practitioners support the medical teams trust wide and provide autonomous support in a number of our community rehabilitation hospitals.
We also provide a frailty Assessment Service within the Emergency department at NSECH, assessing frail elderly patients and getting them to the right place first time around, reducing unnecessary moves where possible. We are also in the process of expanding services through our virtual ward and Elderly assessment unit, managing frail patients within their own home environment that would normally be managed in hospital.
We welcome applications from nurses who feel they can undertake this role and meet the demands of this challenging but rewarding post. We would welcome applications who have the knowledge, skills and drive to work in this exciting and expanding service, working as an autonomous practitioner within the team.
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Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing services to support our frail elderly patients trust wide in a variety of settings.
- Conducting thorough patient histories.
- Conducting clinical assessments.
- Requesting appropriate investigations, e.g bloods, X-ray, CT scans etc, where necessary.
- Interpreting the results of investigations.
- Making differential diagnosis following assessment and investigations.
- Commencing treatment plans following diagnosis including prescribing where necessary.
- Caring for our patients in a holistic manner ensuring any additional referrals to other health care professionals are made to meet all of their individual care needs.
- Working across a variety of areas including the Emergency department, wards and some clinic work.
About the Organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?
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Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Kris Mole
- Job title: Advanced Elderly Nurse Practitioner
- Email address: kris.mole2@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07814645741
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