Urgent Community Response Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 05/08/2026
- Closes
- 02/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Frailty Practitioner to join a dynamic team within the Urgent Community Response service. The role involves providing expert direct patient care, screening and identifying frail older patients in various settings, and improving pathways for those experiencing acute crises. The successful candidate will act as an expert practitioner and role model, delivering high-quality, patient-centred holistic care and maximizing independence for individuals living with frailty.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional with current NMC or HCPC Registration
- Educated to Degree level
- Record of continuous managerial, educational and professional development
- Clinical Assessment and Diagnostics Qualification or willing to work towards
Desirable criteria
- Educated to Masters level, or willing to work towards
- Independent Prescriber, or willing to work towards
- Mentorship course/qualification or equivalent experience
- Recognised management or leadership course/qualification
- Knowledge and Experience
- Knowledge of clinical skills required to undertake the role
- Knowledge of current professional & clinical issues
- Experience of working in the community
- Knowledge of Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults procedures
- Demonstrable knowledge of issues within nursing and the current NHS quality agenda
- Demonstrable knowledge of risk management processes and clinical governance
- Understanding of research and evidence-based nursing practice
- Awareness of how audit may influence quality of patient care
- Knowledge of and participation in audit
- Substantial post registration experience within Frailty
- Substantial management experience
- Shift/Ward/Speciality leadership experience
- Evidence of undertaking professional responsibility for coordinating the patients pathway of care
- Evidence of enhanced clinical practice
- Experience of teaching and developing practice in others
- Experience of gathering and analysing complex information
- Experience of project management
- Experience of participating in research
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent time management, record management and organisational skills
- Good IT skills
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Leadership skills
- Ability to compile reports and deliver presentations
- Other
- Motivated individual, commitment to personal & professional development
- Willing to undertake further study if role requires
- Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional with current NMC or HCPC Registration
- Educated to Degree level
- Record of continuous managerial, educational and professional development
- Clinical Assessment and Diagnostics Qualification or willing to work towards
- Educated to Masters level, or willing to work towards
- Independent Prescriber, or willing to work towards
- Mentorship course/qualification or equivalent experience
- Recognised management or leadership course/qualification
- Knowledge and Experience
- Knowledge of clinical skills required to undertake the role
- Knowledge of current professional & clinical issues
- Experience of working in the community
- Knowledge of Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults procedures
- Demonstrable knowledge of issues within nursing and the current NHS quality agenda
- Demonstrable knowledge of risk management processes and clinical governance
- Understanding of research and evidence-based nursing practice
- Awareness of how audit may influence quality of patient care
- Knowledge of and participation in audit
- Substantial post registration experience within Frailty
- Substantial management experience
- Shift/Ward/Speciality leadership experience
- Evidence of undertaking professional responsibility for coordinating the patients pathway of care
- Evidence of enhanced clinical practice
- Experience of teaching and developing practice in others
- Experience of gathering and analysing complex information
- Experience of project management
- Experience of participating in research
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent time management, record management and organisational skills
- Good IT skills
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Leadership skills
- Ability to compile reports and deliver presentations
- Other
- Motivated individual, commitment to personal & professional development
- Willing to undertake further study if role requires
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
Due to the success of our Frailty Service, an exciting expansion and development opportunity has arisen. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Frailty Practitioner to join our dynamic team of dedicated Nursing and Medical Staff working in the Urgent Community Response (for patients 18yrs +), Ambulatory and Community Frailty and Frailty Virtual Ward.
The post holder will provide expert direct patient care, screen and identify the frail older patient in their own homes, in 24 hour care and in the acute trust. The successful candidates will help to improve pathways for patients who are experiencing an acute crisis and decompensating frailty in the community.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for delivering and supporting high quality care, act as an expert practitioner and a role model, offering a patient centred holistic approach to care planning and maximizing independence and well-being of those living with frailty.
The post holder will join a well-established team of Frailty practitioners, supported by Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Consultants.
Practitioners are working towards their Masters and supported by the Trust to do so, the successful candidate must have completed their Clinical examination and diagnostics.
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