Frailty Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 49,387 to 56,515 £ / Year

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Are you a skilled and compassionate clinician who wants to make a real difference to people living with frailty?

As a Frailty Practitioner, you’ll use your clinical expertise, professional judgement and passion for person-centred care to make a difference when it matters most.

Working within our Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs), you’ll support people with frailty and complex health needs to remain well and independent for longer. You’ll help prevent avoidable hospital admissionsand provide coordinated, proactive and locally responsive support.

INTs bring together everyone who cares for a local population into one team, whatever organisation employs them. GPs, community nurses, therapists, pharmacists, mental health practitioners, social care and voluntary sector partners work side by side around the same people.

We’ll be hosting recruitment information sessions where you can find out more about the role, our Trust and our INTs and ask any questions. Dates and times are listed below — please book via https://buytickets.at/nhssussexcommunityfoundationtrust/2487246

Wednesday 4th November at 12.00

Thursday 5th November at 12.30

Friday 6th November at 08.30

Tuesday 10th November at 17.30

Interviews will take place the week beginning 23rd November.

Main duties of the job

You’ll use your specialist knowledge and advanced clinical skills to understand the person, identify what matters to them and work with them and the wider multidisciplinary team to find the best way forward.

You will:

  • Undertake comprehensive geriatric assessments and develop personalised care and support plans.
  • Manage a defined caseload of people living with frailty and complex needs.
  • Use your clinical judgement to identify deterioration and take action to prevent avoidable hospital admissions.
  • Coordinate care across primary, community, acute, social care and voluntary sector services.
  • Support safe and timely hospital discharge, reducing the risk of readmission.
  • Provide specialist clinical advice, leadership, education and support to colleagues.
  • Contribute to service development.
  • Advocate for people living with frailty, supporting them and their families to make informed choices and maintain independence

We have opportunities available across Sussex. When applying, please indicate your preferred locality in the supporting statement:

Brighton & Hove | Wealden | Lewes & Havens | Crawley | Horsham | Mid Sussex | Adur | Worthing | Arun & Regis | Chichester

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • RN first level nurse (Adults) or Allied Health professional eligible to be an independent prescriber
  • Evidence of continuing professional development in a relevant area of specialist practice to master’s level or equivalent experience.
  • Independent prescriber or willingness to undertake within 12 months of coming into post

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive experience working at a Band 6 role or above
  • Good understanding of working in partnership with statutory and non statutory agencies to support patient centred care
  • Proven extensive experience working with older people living with frailty and/or complex conditions.

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

  • Advanced physical assessment skills
  • Evidence of ability to direct and co-ordinate complex programmes of care working autonomously and collaboratively across organisational boundaries
  • Evidence of the ability to work in a changing, stressful situation whilst managing complex patient centred care
  • Ability to communicate effectively in a variety of settings across organisational boundaries and with the public

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 11 November 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.