Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a suitably qualified and experienced Band 8b Nurse leader to take on the role of Frailty Nurse Consultant in mental health at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT).
As a key member of the clinical leadership, the post holder will provide enthusiastic leadership, continuity of care and to develop and implement care pathways for frailty patients.The Frailty Nurse Consultant fundamentally centers on improving the patient experience.
The role will oversee and champion evidence-based care and ensure that the fundamentals of care are actioned and evidenced to ensure high standards of care and support are in place across the different clinical pathways and services. Improving service user experience encompass how service users and their carers / families are involved in service development and delivery and how feedback is incorporated into practice and care decision-making
Main duties of the job
The main objectives of the role include:
- Clinical responsibility as an expert practitioner
- Be responsible for leading the development of practitioners and clinical practice within frailty and older people services
- Provide evidence-based interventions internally within the organisation, and externally to partner organisations
- Advise on and develop frailty policies and strategies.
- Working as an autonomous, independent advanced clinical practitioner using highly complex skills
- Providing expert clinical advice and consultancy to other professionals, individuals, and families
- Provide clinical leadership across the multidisciplinary team, promoting person-centred care, treatment and support to the MDT.
About us
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on...
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide specialist advice to other professionals, multi-disciplinary and multiagency groups including older adult mental health, GPs, provider agencies, older adults and their carers
- Respond to referrals for nurse consultant opinion or specialist assessment and provide highly specialist advice to practitioners, other health professionals, partner organisations and the voluntary sector
- To act as a non-medical independent /supplementary prescriber
- Supervise, support, and advise colleagues within a clinical consultancy role.
- Maintain NMC standards of communication and record keeping
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide specialist advice to other professionals, multi-disciplinary and multiagency groups including older adult mental health, GPs, provider agencies, older adults and their carers
- Respond to referrals for nurse consultant opinion or specialist assessment and provide highly specialist advice to practitioners, other health professionals, partner organisations and the voluntary sector
- To act as a non-medical independent /supplementary prescriber
- Supervise, support, and advise colleagues within a clinical consultancy role.
- Maintain NMC standards of communication and record keeping
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MSc or equivalent and strong experience operating at a senior level in a large complex organisation.
- Professional clinical qualification with evidence of conducting research
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification at PhD level
- Relevant teaching/lecturing qualification
Skills
Essential
- oWell-developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the Trust's and your performance expectations;
- oAbility to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships;
- oAbility to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working
Experience
Essential
- Extensive senior clinical nursing leadership with strong sense of personal and team accountability.
- Extensive experience of developing systems that support safe, effective and high standards of care
- Expert experience of implementing and monitoring infection prevention and control measures
- Proven track record leading on developing staff, setting, delivering and monitoring standards of nursing care
- Experience of working with partners and stakeholders in delivering changes to services.
Desirable
- Current knowledge of best practice gained through personal research
- Breadth of knowledge across all health and social care services
- Advanced knowledge base or publication on in-depth knowledge of the physiological, psychosocial, economic and political issues that impact upon the health status of individuals and groups of patients, in particular those with frailty and SMI.
- Experience of working closely with stakeholders and coproduction to inform and implement policy initiatives.
Knowledge
Essential
- Sound knowledge and experience of working with professional code of conduct and disciplinary procedures.
- Strategic knowledge of policy and local contexts, which is used to determine complex decisions
- Principles of managing change.
Desirable
- Breadth of knowledge across all health and social care services
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MSc or equivalent and strong experience operating at a senior level in a large complex organisation.
- Professional clinical qualification with evidence of conducting research
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification at PhD level
- Relevant teaching/lecturing qualification
Skills
Essential
- oWell-developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the Trust's and your performance expectations;
- oAbility to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships;
- oAbility to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working
Experience
Essential
- Extensive senior clinical nursing leadership with strong sense of personal and team accountability.
- Extensive experience of developing systems that support safe, effective and high standards of care
- Expert experience of implementing and monitoring infection prevention and control measures
- Proven track record leading on developing staff, setting, delivering and monitoring standards of nursing care
- Experience of working with partners and stakeholders in delivering changes to services.
Desirable
- Current knowledge of best practice gained through personal research
- Breadth of knowledge across all health and social care services
- Advanced knowledge base or publication on in-depth knowledge of the physiological, psychosocial, economic and political issues that impact upon the health status of individuals and groups of patients, in particular those with frailty and SMI.
- Experience of working closely with stakeholders and coproduction to inform and implement policy initiatives.
Knowledge
Essential
- Sound knowledge and experience of working with professional code of conduct and disciplinary procedures.
- Strategic knowledge of policy and local contexts, which is used to determine complex decisions
- Principles of managing change.
Desirable
- Breadth of knowledge across all health and social care services
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).
