Job summary
Frailty Consultant Practitioner B8C
Band 8c
Fixed Term Contract / Secondment
We are delighted to have investment in the development of an Acute Frailty service at Croydon University 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.
Interview Date TBC
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to work automatously to:
Establish values based professional expert and evidence-based practice across pathways, services, organisations, and system working with individuals, families, carers, communities, and others. This will promote more integrated working across the Acute Liaison and Frailty Assessment, Complex Care and other teams in the OneCroydon alliance.
Provide values-based leadership across the care pathway, services, and systems in complex and changing situations.
Develop staff potential, add to, and transform the workforce, and help people to learn, develop and improve (in and from practice) to promote excellence. Promoting the interprofessional teamworking from different backgrounds including nursing and AHPs.
Develop a 'knowledge-rich and inquiry' culture across the service and system that contributes to research outputs and has a positive effect on development, quality, innovation, increasing capacity and capability, and making systems more effective.
Establishing expertise across the system and nationally by using consultancy approaches and opportunities that have maximum impact on practice, services, communities, and populations, and which add to and sustain workforce capacity and capability
About us
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon. The Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 4,100 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.Our main hospital site, Croydon University Hospital is one of the busiest in London. We're also leading the way in providing more healthcare outside hospitals at clinics, specialist centres and in people's homes. Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon.Across the NHS everyone is working hard to meet growing demand and we're no exception. But with the right people on board, we are rising to this challenge, putting our people in the driving seat, encouraging innovation and transforming our services to give local people the quality of care they deserve. Croydon Health Services puts a great deal of importance on education and training throughout the careers of all of our staff.If you want the opportunity to have a real impact, challenge yourself and be part of an NHS Trust that's making a real difference then a career at Croydon Health Services could be just what you're looking for.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role in job description and person specification
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role in job description and person specification
Person Specification
Training and Qualification
Essential
- Professional UK registration e.g. NMC / HCPC experience of at least 5 years
- An Masters level qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice OR Successful recognition with the Centre of Advancing Practice via the ePortfolio (Supported) Route to demonstrate educational equivalence that all the capabilities of advanced level practice at master's level (level 7) have been met.
- Management qualification or significant senior management experience in a healthcare setting.
- Evidence of significant professional and managerial development, including a comprehensive and relevant CPD portfolio
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of establishing values based professional expert and evidence-based practice across pathways, services, and organisations within the ICP
- Experience of service development and applying continuous quality improvement methodology. To ensure it meets the current population health needs.
- Demonstrate a track record of identifying the need for organisational change: scoping, implementing, scaling up and leading.
- Evidence of leading change at a local and a national level in line with Government agendas.
Skills & Ability
Essential
- Detailed knowledge of current clinical professional issues relevant to the field.
- Evidence of driving leading edge clinical practice, supported by advanced theoretical & practical knowledge and skills.
- Ability to demonstrate a sound understanding of health policy and applying that knowledge to the ICP for the benefit of the population.
- Highly advanced planning, organisational, leadership and communication skills, including the ability to prioritise competing tasks in a highly complex and dynamic environment.
- To have the ability to disseminate service change and good practice to the wider audience at national and international level, change agents.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Self-motivated and results driven, with the ability to work autonomously to deliver a highly complex range of priorities in a timely fashion for the benefit of the population we serve.
- To have the ability to apply an expert level of emotional intelligence/self awareness to situations whilst maintaining professionalism to affect change
- A role model and strategic driver for Advanced Clinical practice and Consultant Practice at Trust and National level.
- Having a local /national evidenced profile of excellence in your field of working.
- Committed to partnership working with patient and carers at all levels to ensure their views are incorporated into service delivery.
Person Specification
Training and Qualification
Essential
- Professional UK registration e.g. NMC / HCPC experience of at least 5 years
- An Masters level qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice OR Successful recognition with the Centre of Advancing Practice via the ePortfolio (Supported) Route to demonstrate educational equivalence that all the capabilities of advanced level practice at master's level (level 7) have been met.
- Management qualification or significant senior management experience in a healthcare setting.
- Evidence of significant professional and managerial development, including a comprehensive and relevant CPD portfolio
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of establishing values based professional expert and evidence-based practice across pathways, services, and organisations within the ICP
- Experience of service development and applying continuous quality improvement methodology. To ensure it meets the current population health needs.
- Demonstrate a track record of identifying the need for organisational change: scoping, implementing, scaling up and leading.
- Evidence of leading change at a local and a national level in line with Government agendas.
Skills & Ability
Essential
- Detailed knowledge of current clinical professional issues relevant to the field.
- Evidence of driving leading edge clinical practice, supported by advanced theoretical & practical knowledge and skills.
- Ability to demonstrate a sound understanding of health policy and applying that knowledge to the ICP for the benefit of the population.
- Highly advanced planning, organisational, leadership and communication skills, including the ability to prioritise competing tasks in a highly complex and dynamic environment.
- To have the ability to disseminate service change and good practice to the wider audience at national and international level, change agents.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Self-motivated and results driven, with the ability to work autonomously to deliver a highly complex range of priorities in a timely fashion for the benefit of the population we serve.
- To have the ability to apply an expert level of emotional intelligence/self awareness to situations whilst maintaining professionalism to affect change
- A role model and strategic driver for Advanced Clinical practice and Consultant Practice at Trust and National level.
- Having a local /national evidenced profile of excellence in your field of working.
- Committed to partnership working with patient and carers at all levels to ensure their views are incorporated into service delivery.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
