Frailty Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 10/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This role involves providing expert assessment and treatment for patients with complex needs, aiming to prevent unplanned hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge. The Frailty Practitioner will work autonomously as a nurse practitioner, using advanced nursing skills including physical assessment, diagnosis, and independent prescribing. The post-holder will collaborate with the matron and medical colleagues to develop frailty pathways and support the use of Telehealth.
Essential criteria
- Current NMC registration
- 1st degree in health related subject
- District nurse qualification
Desirable criteria
- Master's degree in health related subject or management or equivalent or working towards
- Nurse Prescriber
- Additonal requirements
- Car driver, current UK licence with access to a car for work purposes
- Knowledge and understanding
- Knowledge of current community service changes and direction
- Knowledge of current priorities and developments within community nursing
- Knowledge of clinical risk strategies and able to apply risk reduction techniques
- Awareness of governance and quality requirements
- Knowledge of word , spread sheets , email and internet
- Management / leadership qualification
- Experience of managing a caseload as a senior clinician
- Line management of clinical and staff
- Significant experience working as a qualified senior district nurse.
- Successfully implementing change including change that involved staff
- Experience managing staff within a team, resources and workload, e.g. effective use of team skill mix, appropriate delegation of patient care, supervision of junior staff
- Skills and abilities
- Evidence of advanced clinical skills i.e physical assessment , clinical decision making
- Previous experience at completing advanced care plans
- Ability to work autonomously Able to lead a team successfully
- Able to mentor colleagues and supervise junior nurses
- Competent in the use of IT packages
- Able to work shifts from time to time including weekends and bank holidays equality opportunities and welcoming diversity to all aspects of role and service
- Education and qulifications
- Current NMC registration
- 1st degree in health related subject
- District nurse qualification
- Master's degree in health related subject or management or equivalent or working towards
- Nurse Prescriber
- Additonal requirements
- Car driver, current UK licence with access to a car for work purposes
- Knowledge and understanding
- Knowledge of current community service changes and direction
- Knowledge of current priorities and developments within community nursing
- Knowledge of clinical risk strategies and able to apply risk reduction techniques
- Awareness of governance and quality requirements
- Knowledge of word , spread sheets , email and internet
- Management / leadership qualification
- Experience of managing a caseload as a senior clinician
- Line management of clinical and staff
- Significant experience working as a qualified senior district nurse.
- Successfully implementing change including change that involved staff
- Experience managing staff within a team, resources and workload, e.g. effective use of team skill mix, appropriate delegation of patient care, supervision of junior staff
- Skills and abilities
- Evidence of advanced clinical skills i.e physical assessment , clinical decision making
- Previous experience at completing advanced care plans
- Ability to work autonomously Able to lead a team successfully
- Able to mentor colleagues and supervise junior nurses
- Competent in the use of IT packages
- Able to work shifts from time to time including weekends and bank holidays equality opportunities and welcoming diversity to all aspects of role and service
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £55,524 – £62,652 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
Working as part of the Complex Care Service, the post-holder will provide expert assessment and treatment of patients with complex needs who are at risk from unplanned hospital admission
To support and develop in- reach pathways into care/nursing homes and Croydon University Hospital to facilitate early discharge and prevent long stay admissions
To work in collaboration with the One Croydon Alliance programme office to complete the transformation of adult community services to meet the needs of the adult population in Croydon
To support the use of Telehealth to support discharge and prevent admission for Croydon residents.
Working as a nurse practitioner with a high degree of autonomy, the post-holder will manage undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems using advanced nursing skills by incorporating physical assessment, diagnosis and independent prescribing.
The post-holder will work collaboratively with the matron and medical colleagues to develop frailty pathways within the alliance.
Interview date : tbc
Main duties of the job
- To support patients in their homes with complex needs
- To support the Matron in actively promoting the use of telehealth and other telehealth solutions across the Alliance to prevent hospital admission.
- To create individualised advanced care plans for complex patients
- Assessment and treatment of patients during a cri
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