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Salary This exciting new post will support the leadership, drive and development of the new Nurse Led Acute Frailty Response (AFR) Service to ensure appropriate assessment and intervention is carried out to enable patients care to be transferred safely back to community teams and away from acute services. The post holder will also provide frailty support across all other Primary Care and Community settings.
They will lead, support and manage the Nurse Practitioner teams
within community frailty services, including the AFR team, and demonstrate clear principles of teaching and learning, as well as supporting others through expert teaching, supervision and assessment.
The post holder will be an experienced advanced level practitioner with IP, autonomous expert skills in assessment, examination and providing a diagnosis and management plan for patients across all settings working with stakeholders from all settings
The post holder will be expected to deliver care at an expert level of clinical practice within a variety of settings in the field of frailty and elderly care within the Primary Care & Community Services (PCCS) Division.
Priorities of the post holder will be on the provision of safe, effective and efficient care. The post holder is expected to work as a highly skilled senior practitioner with expert knowledge, delivering evidence-based practice to a designated population, supporting relevant policies and strategies such as the redesigning services for older and/or frail people as part of the Health Board’s response to the Six Goals for Urgent and Emergency Care.
As an advanced, autonomous practitioner the post holder will provide patient-centred care, encompassing expert skills in assessment,
examination, identifying differential diagnosis for the treatment of patients utilising our services.
The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal professional autonomy and make critical judgements to satisfy the expectations and
demands of the role. The post holder will be guided by local and national policies and identify ways to interpret and advise relevant
stakeholders accordingly.
In accordance with the Advanced Clinical Practice framework (National Leadership and Innovation Agency for Healthcare, 2010) the post
holder will align duties and responsibilities to the 4 pillars of advanced practice, carrying out research in practice and methodology.
The post holder will also be required to contribute to the Primary Care and Community Services Tier 1 on call rota.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The Health Board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
The ratio of allocated time will be up to 80% clinical practice with the remaining time appropriately planned to ensure all of the required pillars of Advanced Nurse practice are met.
Conduct advanced physical assessments, examinations and investigations to identify highly complex and unstable health needs, and
aid diagnoses and develop a comprehensive and appropriate plan of care. Recognise symptoms that would suggest differential
diagnosis.
Use advanced clinical assessment skills to autonomously manage patients to ensure that optimal physical and psychological care
needs are met.
Use autonomous decision-making including judgements involving complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation and
comparison of a range of options in relation to the care and management needs of the patients on a day-to-day basis within the clinical
environment.
Will support the redesigning services for older and/or frail people programme and subsequent workstreams and projects, and have overall
responsibility for supervising and leading the Nurse Practitioner team.
To balance conflicting demands on time and choosing between strategic work priorities.
Manage and prioritise the diverse and challenging workload within a multidisciplinary organisation.
There will be a requirement to deal with conflict and confrontational professionals reluctant to acknowledge and embrace the national strategy and standards required for the provision of safe and effective care to patients.
Maintain an awareness of developments, specialist expertise knowledge within a rapidly moving agenda to enable the provision of highly specialised expert advice based on interpretation of robust reliable evidence.
Respond to demands for advice, reports and briefs with short time frames.
Key working relationships will include:
• Frailty Consultant Nurse/ Senior Nurse
• Head and Deputy Head of Service
• Consultants/medical team/Specialist teams across ABUHB
• Multidisciplinary Team, Community Admissions Avoidance Therapies Team (CAATT), Home First, Red Cross.
• Patient’s families and Carers
• Advanced Nurse Practitioners/Nurse Practitioners in ABUHB
• Nursing staff, Operational flow teams include SPA.
• Ward Managers
• National Advanced Practice Forums and networks.
This advert closes on Sunday 10 Mar 2024
