Frailty Team Leader (SNOPs)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Frailty Team Leader within Wirral University Teaching Hospital's multidisciplinary Frailty Team. The team provides rapid, holistic assessments for frail patients, aiming for early discharge and admission prevention. The SNOPs (Specialist Nurses for Older People) are integral, often being the first point of contact in emergency settings. The Team Leader will manage the SNOP service, coordinating workload, supervising staff, and ensuring quality patient care.
Key responsibilities
- Day to day management of the Specialist Nurses for Older People, including coordinating, allocating, and prioritising workload.
- Train, supervise, and appraise staff, and manage first line sickness absence.
- Maintain the quality of work performed by the nursing team within the SNOP service.
- Write, review, and implement Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's).
- Undertake formal disciplinary, grievances, absence management meetings, and staff appraisals.
- Contribute to the monitoring and control of expenditure and use of resources.
Essential criteria
- Current NMC registration
- Post registration course in speciality
- Degree or working towards degree level.
- A minimum of 5 years post registration experience
- A minimum of 2 years leadership experience; specifically in the speciality setting
- It skills (Word/Excel/Outlook)
- Budget management skills
- Ability to plan and prioritise own and others workload when under pressure
- Excellent communications skills
- Evidence of working collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to demonstrate initiative, self-motivation and empowerment of others
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of service delivery
- Sound knowledge of the principles and practice of specilaity care
- Awareness off current NHS issues
- Evidence of understanding of quality governance
Desirable criteria
- Holds registered mentor or teaching qualification.
- Working towards masters level study
- Clinical supervision experience
- Experience of working with electronic health records
- Experience of the peri -operative setting
- Experience of project management
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
The Frailty Team in Wirral University Teaching Hospital (WUTH) comprises of a multi disciplinary team (MDT) involving consultant geriatricians, Junior doctors, advanced nurse practitioners (ANP's), Specialist nurses for older persons (SNOP), Clinical support workers (CSW's), Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, integrated discharge team (IDT), Social workers and third party representation from Age UK.
The SNOPs are an integral part of the frailty service within Wirral University Teaching Hospitals and are often the first members of the team that patients meet when attending the Emergency Department (ED), The Older Person's Assessment Unit (OPAU) or The Urgent Medical Assessment Unit (UMAC). They start the process of CGA, liaise closely with other members of the Frailty team and also with community providers including the Community Integrated Response Team (CIRT) and Integrated Care Co-ordination Hubs (ICCH).
The aim of the Frailty Team, as a whole, is to provide a rapid, holistic assessment of frail patients attending Wirral University Hospital and to formulate a management plan for their care adopting a 'Home First' approach.
The role facilitates early discharge from hospital and admission prevention where it has been identified that patients can be managed in community settings.
The SNOP team currently comprises x6 Band 6 Nurses, x2 Band 6 Physiotherapi
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