Job summary
Nurse Consultant/Lead Practitioner for Older People/Frailty Team
Community Services and Older Peoples Medicine
We have invested in growing our Senior Leadership team at the Community and Older Peoples Medicine Directorate here at Frimley Health and have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic Senior Nurse to join us as our new Nurse Consultant.
You will report to the Head of Nursing in the delivery of high quality patient care and our strategic ambitions within the Directorate.
The post is an ideal opportunity for an experienced Senior Nurse to build upon and advance their leadership, research, and managerial skills whilst being supported by the Divisional Head of Nursing, Frailty Team Manager, and Clinical Matrons. Ward Sisters, Clinical Senior Nurses, and Service Manager to deliver quality
Main duties of the job
Main duties
- In this exciting role, you will provide operational/strategic leadership across a broad range of Older Peoples teams at Frimley Park hospital, Emergency Department and the Hospital at Home Community teams.
- In both the Frailty team and Hospital at Home team, the post holder will act as the lead for safety, quality and patient experience, responsible for development and application of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements. To ensure full compliance with internal and external governance procedures and to benchmark against best practice requirements.
- You will lead the drive to transform our services, delivering continuous improvement projects across the Older Peoples Medicine Wards, leading process review, reviewing operational performance, and seeking effectiveness and efficiency through robust reviews audits and action plans.
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Job description
Job responsibilities
Person Specification Essential Criteria
- Registered General Nurse
- Educated to a Masters/PHD level
- Advanced assessment skills and independent prescribing qualification
- Advanced expert level of knowledge of management of older adults and individuals living with frailty and multiple co-morbidities
- Significant experience ( minimum 6 years ) working with older adults at an advanced clinical practice level, including experience within leadership and development roles
- Significant experience of facilitating change and service development to improve patient outcomes
- Demonstrated involvement with innovative practice developments and evidence of significant achievements gained
- Evidence of continued professional development and the application of evidence base to clinical practice
- Leadership and management skills including facilitation, supervision and assessment of others in the delivery of care
- Ability to lead and influence: within nursing, multi-professional working; within and across organisational boundaries
Job description
Job responsibilities
Person Specification Essential Criteria
- Registered General Nurse
- Educated to a Masters/PHD level
- Advanced assessment skills and independent prescribing qualification
- Advanced expert level of knowledge of management of older adults and individuals living with frailty and multiple co-morbidities
- Significant experience ( minimum 6 years ) working with older adults at an advanced clinical practice level, including experience within leadership and development roles
- Significant experience of facilitating change and service development to improve patient outcomes
- Demonstrated involvement with innovative practice developments and evidence of significant achievements gained
- Evidence of continued professional development and the application of evidence base to clinical practice
- Leadership and management skills including facilitation, supervision and assessment of others in the delivery of care
- Ability to lead and influence: within nursing, multi-professional working; within and across organisational boundaries
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Registered adult Nurse
- Educated to Masters degree level/PHD
- Advanced assessment skills and clinical reasoning
- Non-medical Prescribing qualification
- Extensive experience in acute and elderly medicine
Desirable
- Post graduate diploma on dementia
- Leadership qualification
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Registered adult Nurse
- Educated to Masters degree level/PHD
- Advanced assessment skills and clinical reasoning
- Non-medical Prescribing qualification
- Extensive experience in acute and elderly medicine
Desirable
- Post graduate diploma on dementia
- Leadership qualification
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
