Trainee Frailty Advanced Practitioner (Secondment/Fixed Term Contract)

Deliver and participate in the clinical care of patients recognised as frail, working within Gold Standards, and performing a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.

Priorities health needs and intervenes appropriately.

To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within Trust policies and the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct (2008) or Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Provide a level of advanced and comprehensive health assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge.

To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose, and treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.

Ensure patients are informed and consent is gained prior to treatment, investigation, and management as appropriate. When patients are recognised as being incapacitated to make decisions about their own health needs, to be able to make decisions in the patient's best interest to enhance their care and well-being.

Take responsibility for the management of patients within own caseload and supervision/development of junior members of the multi-professional team.

Can identify the need for appropriate diagnostic tests and interpret the results.

Please see detailed Job Description and Person Specification attached and any other accompanying documents.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology.

Our Values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

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