Job summary
A very exciting opportunity has arisen within our Senior Leadership team in the Community, Older People's Medicine and Palliative Care Directorate here at Frimley Health. We are looking for a dynamic Senior Clinician to join us as our new Consultant Practitioner for our Urgent Community Response and Frailty Teams.
You will report to the Head of Nursing in the delivery of high-quality patient care, promote patient safety and good patient experiences across the acute wards. You will work alongside the Deputy Head of Nursing to support the delivery of our strategic quality ambitions within the Directorate.
The post is an ideal opportunity for an experienced Senior Clinician to build upon and advance their leadership, clinical and managerial skills whilst being supported by the Divisional Head of Nursing, WPH Nurse Consultant for Frailty, other Clinical Matrons. Ward Sisters, Clinical Senior Nurses and Service Manager to deliver quality care.
Previous applicants need not apply.
Main duties of the job
Please see attached job advert, person specification and job description for further information regarding this vacancy.
About us
There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our threecore 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.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job advert, person specification and job description for further information regarding this vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job advert, person specification and job description for further information regarding this vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration
- Master's degree
- Teaching qualification
- Clinical examination and history taking qualifications
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Teaching or management qualification
Desirable
- Working towards a Doctorate or PhD
- Postgraduate diploma in Dementia
- Leadership Qualification / Course
Experience
Essential
- Extensive portfolio and evidence of continued professional development in within older adults and acute medicine.
- Clear and demonstrable evidence of advanced, autonomous practice in the management of older adults and individuals living with frailty and multiple co-morbidities.
- Significant experience (Minimum of 6 years) working with older adults at an Advanced Clinical Practice Level, including experience within leadership and development roles.
- Recent experience within Older Adult and Acute medicine.
- Breadth of knowledge of National and local policies.
- Managing a service i.e., quality, governance, budget management.
- Managing a team of colleagues e.g., performance, eRostering.
- Evidence of conducting audit and research
- Working and liaising with external partners
- Experience of policy and protocol development and production
- Engaging with senior managers and directors
- Provide evidence of presenting and working with external professional networks
- Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills
- Ability to think strategically
- Excellent personal and communication skills
- Demonstrate transformational leadership ability
- Evidence of service development
- Evidence of implementing innovative practice
- Evidence of leading change management
Desirable
- Evidence of publication experience
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Co-ordination and leading of CGA assessment of Older Adults with frailty and complex needs in a clinical setting
- Clinical examination, assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care
- Non-medical prescribing
- Demonstrate excellent transformational leadership skills
- Detailed knowledge of current clinical professional issues relevant to the field
- Ability to handle and analyse highly complex information and deliver key messages to a range of staff including experienced clinicians and managers
- Appraisal and interview experience and skills
- Advanced verbal and non-verbal communication skills in varied circumstances and setting
- Maintenance of accurate and clear writing an electronic records, storing information as per policy Risk assessment and management skills
- Experience of research design and being a principle researcher
- Self-motivated and good time keeping
- Able to work across professional boundaries, acknowledges their unique skills and knowledge
- About to build and sustain new professional relationships
- Computer literate and to use Microsoft office and teams
- A portfolio of career long learning, experience and education
- Research experience and dissemination
- To have inspired recognition as an expert and innovator in the field
- Passion for improving care and their profession
- Resilient under situational pressure, professional challenges and change
- Adept at networking and forging sustainable, productive relationships at all levels within the local, regional and national health and care economy
- Ability to treat all employee and other hospital information confidentially
- Supportive of equality and diversity
- Demonstrates a desire to explore new ways of delivering services
- Professional and political astuteness; and awareness of all direct and indirect national/local relevant documents
- Demonstration of ability on each of the four domains of Expert Clinical Practice, Education, training & development, Professional leadership & consultancy, Practice service development, research and evaluation
- Flexibility to work beyond traditional boundaries of clinical and professional practice
- Ability to work as a team as well as autonomously
- Innovative, creative and visionary
Desirable
- Project management skills
- A record of publication in peer review journals
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration
- Master's degree
- Teaching qualification
- Clinical examination and history taking qualifications
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Teaching or management qualification
Desirable
- Working towards a Doctorate or PhD
- Postgraduate diploma in Dementia
- Leadership Qualification / Course
Experience
Essential
- Extensive portfolio and evidence of continued professional development in within older adults and acute medicine.
- Clear and demonstrable evidence of advanced, autonomous practice in the management of older adults and individuals living with frailty and multiple co-morbidities.
- Significant experience (Minimum of 6 years) working with older adults at an Advanced Clinical Practice Level, including experience within leadership and development roles.
- Recent experience within Older Adult and Acute medicine.
- Breadth of knowledge of National and local policies.
- Managing a service i.e., quality, governance, budget management.
- Managing a team of colleagues e.g., performance, eRostering.
- Evidence of conducting audit and research
- Working and liaising with external partners
- Experience of policy and protocol development and production
- Engaging with senior managers and directors
- Provide evidence of presenting and working with external professional networks
- Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills
- Ability to think strategically
- Excellent personal and communication skills
- Demonstrate transformational leadership ability
- Evidence of service development
- Evidence of implementing innovative practice
- Evidence of leading change management
Desirable
- Evidence of publication experience
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Co-ordination and leading of CGA assessment of Older Adults with frailty and complex needs in a clinical setting
- Clinical examination, assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care
- Non-medical prescribing
- Demonstrate excellent transformational leadership skills
- Detailed knowledge of current clinical professional issues relevant to the field
- Ability to handle and analyse highly complex information and deliver key messages to a range of staff including experienced clinicians and managers
- Appraisal and interview experience and skills
- Advanced verbal and non-verbal communication skills in varied circumstances and setting
- Maintenance of accurate and clear writing an electronic records, storing information as per policy Risk assessment and management skills
- Experience of research design and being a principle researcher
- Self-motivated and good time keeping
- Able to work across professional boundaries, acknowledges their unique skills and knowledge
- About to build and sustain new professional relationships
- Computer literate and to use Microsoft office and teams
- A portfolio of career long learning, experience and education
- Research experience and dissemination
- To have inspired recognition as an expert and innovator in the field
- Passion for improving care and their profession
- Resilient under situational pressure, professional challenges and change
- Adept at networking and forging sustainable, productive relationships at all levels within the local, regional and national health and care economy
- Ability to treat all employee and other hospital information confidentially
- Supportive of equality and diversity
- Demonstrates a desire to explore new ways of delivering services
- Professional and political astuteness; and awareness of all direct and indirect national/local relevant documents
- Demonstration of ability on each of the four domains of Expert Clinical Practice, Education, training & development, Professional leadership & consultancy, Practice service development, research and evaluation
- Flexibility to work beyond traditional boundaries of clinical and professional practice
- Ability to work as a team as well as autonomously
- Innovative, creative and visionary
Desirable
- Project management skills
- A record of publication in peer review journals
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).
