Experienced Specialist Nurse PCN and Neighbourhood Frailty Team

The post holder will provide high quality, patient centred care for frail, housebound and care home patients, undertaking home visits where indicated and supporting patients with frailty, complex needs and multiple long term conditions. Duties include monitoring conditions, care planning, identifying deteriorating patients, coordinating interventions and working with GPs, community services, social care and voluntary sector partners, plus health promotion, screening, safeguarding, advocacy, referral management and meeting quality targets.

The post holder will lead the Neighbourhood Frailty Team, offering supervision and mentorship to staff, undertaking advanced assessments, supporting complex decision making, leading the management of patients requiring community interventions and promoting evidence based practice and quality improvement.

As line manager, the post holder will support staff performance, wellbeing and development through supervision, audits, competency assessment, development planning and attendance management, monitoring standards and acting as key contact for staff.

The role is responsible for coordinating daily workloads, ensuring effective use of resources, monitoring caseloads and escalating capacity or safety concerns. The post holder will contribute to PCN and neighbourhood frailty service development through improvement, clinical governance, innovation and local/national priorities, supporting integrated neighbourhood care and future expansion.

Were an established PCN in Wakefield, with excellent

relationships with our member practices. We value our teams, providing

opportunities for development in line with PCN objectives, and promote a

culture of We pride ourselves on innovation and utilising digital solutions to

enhance productivity, monitoring and patient experience. With compassionate

leadership and accountability, we make data led decisions to provide high

quality patient care. Our 69,000+ patients are always front of mind whilst we

support our member practices with additional roles, opportunities for working

at scale, project management, and service design. Our teams engage in multiple

workstreams that support the Neighbourhood working agenda, and we have multiple

links with our wider neighbourhood partners. We have work to do to truly take

advantage of our position at the forefront of Neighbourhood working in our area.

Please see the attached document for more information about West Wakefield PCN.

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