Specialist Frailty Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We are excited to be able to recruit additionalRegistered Nurses or Therapists to join our existing team of Specialist Frailty Practitioners (nurses and therapists) in delivery of the King's Frailty service over the coming months.

The Specialist Frailty Practitioner will deliver person centred care, frailty screening and comprehensive assessment for older people and people with frailty within the Emergency Department and across the Frailty Pathway at King's College Hospital.

These fixed term posts will include weekend working as we expand to a seven-day service therefore the postholder must be available to work within a flexible rota.

We can offer strong support for development within an expert team.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London.

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites.

The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.

By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King's to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan.

In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus.

Everyone's contribution is required in order tomeet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

The Specialist Frailty Practitioner is a member of King's Frailty Team, delivering multidisciplinary assessment and clinical management support for frail patients attending the Emergency Department and acute services
The Practitioner will carry out screening and specialist assessments of older people in the Emergency Department and acute service using a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment model
Plan and deliver interventions with the aim to facilitate safe and timely discharges and prevent avoidable admissions
Promote excellent integrated, multidisciplinary and multiagency working.
To ensure that patients and their families are fully involved, informed and supported at all stages of the patient journey
To establish clear lines of communication with primary healthcare teams and outside agencies in order to promote optimum service provision
This post supports Winter Pressures arrangements for seven day service and therefore is fixed term and will require the postholder to undertake regular weekend working