Consultant Practitioner

Description:

We are recruiting for Consultant Nurse practitionerwho wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “great people, great place”.

We are delighted have investment in the development of an Acute Frailty service at St Mary's Hospital. We are looking for a Consultant Nurse/ Practitioner to lead this service. The post is open to both Registered Nurses and AHPs, with a proven history of frailty expertise, clinical leadership, service development, workforce development, multidisciplinary working, and advanced practice. Trainee Consultant Nurse/ Practitioner is an option that we are also keen to encourage and will consider for this role.

This is a new post created to implement and lead an acute frailty service working primarily within the emergency care floor, with in-reach into acute wards, assessing needs, providing same day services, and supporting the effective use of alternatives to acute care including SDEC, virtual wards and community rapid response services.

The creation of an acute frailty team contributes to the Trust’s strategic objective of Home First – enabling people to remain safely in their normal place of residence – by better meeting the needs of people aged 65 and over living with moderate to severe frailty.

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values areCompassion,Accountable,Respect andEveryone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.