Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

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Job overview

Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC)

Are you passionate about transforming care for older people?

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an exceptional Frailty Nurse Consultant to lead the development of innovative frailty services and shape the future of urgent care for older adults.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced senior nurse with advanced clinical expertise, strong leadership skills and a passion for improving outcomes for people living with frailty. Working across our Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) service, Emergency Department and Care of the Elderly pathways, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, person-centred care whilst driving service improvement across the organisation.

We're looking for someone who is:

• A registered nurse with significant senior clinical experience in frailty, elderly care or acute medicine.

• Educated to Master's level (or equivalent) with advanced clinical assessment skills.

• A qualified Non-Medical Prescriber.

• An experienced clinical leader who inspires and develops others.

• Passionate about improving services through innovation, quality improvement and collaboration.

• An excellent communicator who can build strong relationships across professional and organisational boundaries.

• Committed to delivering compassionate, personalised care for older people.

• Leadership qualification and experience of research, audit and service redesign would be advantageous.

Main duties of the job

As our Frailty Nurse Consultant you will combine expert clinical practice with strategic leadership, education and service development.

Working alongside consultants, advanced practitioners, therapists and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will:

• Provide expert clinical leadership for patients living with frailty.

• Deliver advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis and management, including independent prescribing.

• Lead the development of frailty pathways across acute and ambulatory care.

• Champion evidence-based practice and continuous quality improvement.

• Support the education, supervision and development of nursing and multidisciplinary colleagues.

• Lead service improvement projects, audit and research to improve patient outcomes.

• Influence Trust-wide strategy for frailty services and integrated working across organisational boundaries.

This is a highly visible leadership role where you will have the opportunity to influence practice across the Trust and work with system partners to deliver the best possible care for older people.

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