Frailty Nurse Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

Frailty Nurse Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) Key Responsibilities The role will include: Undertaking comprehensive, person-centred and holistic frailty assessments, predominantly within patients' own homes. Independently assessing patients and developing appropriate treatment and management plans within your scope of practice. Proactively managing frail patients with complex needs and long-term conditions, including diabetes, COPD, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Undertaking comprehensive care planning, including advance care planning and Emergency Health Care Planning. Prescribing and reviewing medication as an Independent Non-Medical Prescriber. Requesting and interpreting appropriate investigations and acting on results. Recognising deterioration or changes in a patient's health and taking appropriate clinical action. Supporting proactive and early case management to help prevent avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions. Referring and signposting patients appropriately across primary, community and secondary care services. Supporting patients and carers with health promotion, prevention of ill health and self-management. Communicating effectively with patients, families and carers, including when discussing complex or sensitive information. Maintaining clear, concise and accurate clinical documentation. Working closely with the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure coordinated and effective patient care. Providing clinical leadership, support and guidance to colleagues within the Frailty Team. Contributing to audit, quality improvement, service development and evidence-based practice. These responsibilities bring together the community frailty and proactive case-management elements of the Frailty Nurse JD with the autonomous assessment, diagnosis, prescribing and advanced decision-making responsibilities of the ACP role. Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust #J-18808-Ljbffr