Band 7 - Advanced Clinical Specialist- Maternity Cover
An exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist - Frailty has arisen on the Frailty Virtual Ward.
Frailty Virtual Ward is a 30-bed capacity community-based service that aims to support patients, who would otherwise be in hospital, to receive acute care, remote monitoring, and treatment they need in their home or usual residence.
The post holder will be expected to support their team, department, and organisation to achieve both trusts' values in their day-to-day work.
The role involves working very closely with the Acute Frailty and Virtual Ward multidisciplinary team (MDT) and plays a pivotal role in ensuring all patients within the Virtual Ward receive the best possible care and service.
You will be required to work autonomously across the BHR area including within the Acute Frailty & emergency departments as well as visiting patients in care homes and in the community, providing a range of services using your enhanced clinical assessment and treatment skills, to assess and manage patients.
Responsibilities will include:
* Obtaining a patient history and establishing a working diagnosis of an individual's health condition.
* Leading the design and implementation of best practice clinical pathways, care management, and care planning of people with frailty, as part of the Virtual Ward (VW) MDT.
* Working in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients with frailty, using your expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
* Demonstrating high-level clinical knowledge and advanced skills to undertake a remote assessment, including accurate clinical history, and/or perform a physical examination to formulate a differential diagnosis and devise, monitor and review evidence-based treatment plans and advice.
* Arranging services and support with other healthcare providers.
* Performing point of care testing and obtaining supporting information to inform the assessment of an individual.
* Providing clinical interpretation from clinical investigations and determining a treatment plan for an individual.
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
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