CLCH Hertfordshire Adult Community Services – CLCH NHS Trust provides a range of Community Services, and the Hertfordshire Division is recruiting!
We are looking for a Band 6 Frailty Nurse or Paramedic to join our supportive and dedicated team. This is a part‑time opportunity (28.88 hours per week), offered as a 9‑month fixed‑term contract or secondment.
In this role, you will deliver high‑quality, short‑term care programmes for adults referred to the Frailty Hospital at Home service across West Hertfordshire. You will provide care in patients' own homes, supporting those with acute health needs, helping to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, and enabling timely discharge from urgent care settings.
You will use your specialist skills and knowledge to holistically assess needs and provide clinical treatments based on evidence‑based practice. To supplement generic health services when acute, or concentrated nursing care and/or therapy intervention is required.
As this is a community‑based role, with travel between patient homes, there is a requirement to hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Main duties of the job
* To assess referrals made to the service, prioritise, and respond according to priority, as appropriate both in terms of level and urgency.
* To use enhanced skills and knowledge to assess physical and psycho‑social needs and develop a comprehensive and concordant plan of care with patient/carers and the wider Multidisciplinary Team as needed.
* To make risk assessments, establishing the safety or otherwise of patients' ability to stay at home, or return home safely from another care setting, providing, and arranging necessary supportive packages.
* To provide evidence‑based clinical/therapeutic interventions based on 'best practice', to improve health outcomes and promote choice.
* To work in close collaboration with all other community agencies including staff working within the Community Adult Health Services.
Person Specification – Criteria
* Requirement to hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless the candidate has a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
* Registered with a current HCPC/NMC registration.
* Physical clinical assessment skills.
Experience
* Substantial B5 Experience.
* Experience of assessing and providing quality care to people with long‑term conditions.
* Extensive range of clinical skills and experience.
* Experience of working in an MDT.
* Experience of autonomous/lone working.
Skills & Knowledge
* Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally.
* Ability to make decisions and prioritise.
* Able to manage own workload.
* Basic IT skills including use of Microsoft Office package and email.
* Clinical knowledge across a range of long‑term and enduring conditions.
* Knowledge of evidence‑based practice and able to implement in practice.
* Knowledge of clinical governance processes, assessing and managing risk.
* Knowledge of current NHS organisational structures and policy initiatives.
Key Attributes
* Able to carry out the duties of the post.
* Able to work flexible shifts.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£41,957 to £50,387 a year per annum, inclusive of HCAS.
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