Frailty Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 14/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This 8-month fixed-term role as a Frailty Practitioner involves providing proactive and reactive care to patients living with frailty in their own homes. You will undertake holistic assessments, support self-care, manage deterioration, and work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to prevent hospital admissions. The position aims to enhance knowledge and care for patients in an integrated healthcare setting.
Essential criteria
- Registered practitioner to degree/diploma level supplemented by post registration diploma level specialist training and/or short courses or demonstrable extensive experience in the relevant specialty
- Membership of the relevant Professional Body
- Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
- Evidence of recent professional development in an up to date portfolio
- Non-Medical Prescriber (if professionally appropriate)
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role
- JOB SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE
- Experience at Practitioner Band 6 level
- Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice
- Experience of managing change
- Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and therapeutic interventions in area of specialism
- Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention.
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
- Trained in PMVA techniques or willing to be trained.
- Recent previous experience within a comparable role
- MANAGERIAL/SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE
- Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff
- Experience of devising and delivering training
- FINANCE/RESOURCES
- Able to effectively manage available resources in the pursuit of quality service provision ensuring a safe environment
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/RESOURCES
- Able to analyse data and produce reports using Microsoft Excel and Word
- Experience of using electronic patient / service user record systems
- PERSONAL QUALITIES/ATTRIBUTES
- Evidence of demonstrating the Trust's values and behaviours.
- KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND TRAINING
- Enhanced Physical Assessment Skills or HAPE
- KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND TRAINING
- Registered practitioner to degree/diploma level supplemented by post registration diploma level specialist training and/or short courses or demonstrable extensive experience in the relevant specialty
- Membership of the relevant Professional Body
- Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
- Evidence of recent professional development in an up to date portfolio
- Non-Medical Prescriber (if professionally appropriate)
- Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role
- JOB SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE
- Experience at Practitioner Band 6 level
- Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice
- Experience of managing change
- Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and therapeutic interventions in area of specialism
- Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention.
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
- Trained in PMVA techniques or willing to be trained.
- Recent previous experience within a comparable role
- MANAGERIAL/SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE
- Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff
- Experience of devising and delivering training
- FINANCE/RESOURCES
- Able to effectively manage available resources in the pursuit of quality service provision ensuring a safe environment
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/RESOURCES
- Able to analyse data and produce reports using Microsoft Excel and Word
- Experience of using electronic patient / service user record systems
- PERSONAL QUALITIES/ATTRIBUTES
- Evidence of demonstrating the Trust's values and behaviours.
- KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND TRAINING
- Enhanced Physical Assessment Skills or HAPE
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £21,311 – £25,662 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Frailty Practitioner
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
Are you looking for a new opportunity to enhance your knowledge and care of patients living with frailty? Mid Dorset Hub have an opportunity for an 8 month secondment/maternity cover, to explore this exciting and rewarding area of healthcare.
As a Frailty Practitioner you will provide proactive support to people in their own homes and this is an opportunity to help provide care to our patients in a truly integrated way, working with the services across the neighbourhood.
You will provide both proactive and reactive care to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions by supporting individuals to remain in their own homes by undertaking holistic and generalist assessments at the point of need. You will assist individuals and their carers to proactively anticipate their future health needs, support self-care, develop appropriate plans, manage deterioration via early intervention and work collaboratively with the wider MDT Team to promote improved outcomes and the management of frailty.
The service is covered 8.30 to 16.30 with a possible future weekend rota as the service develops.
Applications from candidates that require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are unfortunately ineligible to apply for this position.
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