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Are you a dynamic and forward-thinking senior nurse leader with a passion for frailty care?
As our Nurse Consultant for Frailty, you will provide expert, autonomous clinical care to adults living with complex needs and frailty across Southport Hospital and the surrounding communities of Sefton, Formby, Ormskirk, and Southport.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Leading and developing frailty focused Virtual Wards and supporting MDTs across acute and community provision.
* Providing expert clinical assessment, treatment planning, and care co-ordination for adults over 18 with complex and frailty related conditions
* Acting as a senior decision maker within the clinical team, supporting safe admission avoidance and effective hospital discharge pathways
* Driving quality improvement, clinical audit, research and service evaluation aligned to national best practice
* Acting as a visible role model, mentor, and leader within the frailty workforce
This is an exciting time to join MWL Trust as we transform how we deliver care for adults living with frailty. You will have the unique opportunity to shape new models of care across traditional boundaries, working collaboratively with system partners to keep patients well, independent, and out of hospital wherever possible.
Please note this recruitment process will involve an interview and a clinical assessment task, date to be confirmed
The Nurse Consultant will independently provide direct and indirect clinical care to patients. This will be for an unselected group of patients over the age of 18, but predominantly with complex conditions and frailty. The nurse consultant will provide care in all areas of the trusts frailty and urgent community response (UCR) services, both in secondary care and in the community.
The Nurse Consultant will be responsible in leading autonomous Virtual ward MDTs and be a senior decision maker with the rest of the clinical team.
When not proving direct clinical care, the nurse consultant will lead, participate and deliver the education and training to multi-disciplinary staff working alongside the MWL ACP team. This will include collaborating with local higher education institutions to develop and deliver workforce training and to ensure that academic research is linked to local service developments.
The nurse consultant will assist in setting the standards for monitoring effectiveness by audit and statistical data collection. The post holder will be responsible for the contribution to, and development of protocols and policies relevant to frailty services to enable high quality patient care. This will include participating in the local agenda to promote frailty recognition and management. The nurse consultant will be accountable for ensuring clinical quality, patient safety, and improving patient experience.
The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.
From 1st July we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals.
The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.
Our Vision Is To Deliver 5 Star Patient Care
* CARE that is evidence based, high quality and compassionate
* SAFETY that is of the highest standards
* COMMUNICATION that is open, inclusive and respectful
* SYSTEMS that are efficient, patient centred and reliable
* PATHWAYS that are best practice and embedded, but also respect the individual needs of patients
Our Achievements Include
* Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
* Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
* Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Please see our Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our staff benefits. Accessible version available upon request.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Gemma Causer Job title: Divisional Director of Nursing Email address: gemma.causer@merseywestlancs.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0151 430 1597
Deputy Directorate Manager for Frailty
Gaynor.Whalley@MerseyWestLancs.nhs.uk
0151 290 4436
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