Frailty Advanced Nurse Practitioner/ ACPGP Practice
Job summaryFrailty Nurse Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)
Location: The Grove Surgery, Christchurch working across South Coast Medical Group PCN
Hours: Full Time
Salary: Dependent on skills and experience
Contract: Permanent
About South Coast Medical Group
South Coast Medical Group is an award-winning primary care organisation providing high-quality healthcare services to patients across Bournemouth, Christchurch and the surrounding areas.
We are a forward-thinking and innovative organisation, committed to delivering excellent patient care through collaborative working across our practices and Primary Care Network.
Our multidisciplinary teams work together to provide accessible, proactive and patient-centred care, while continually developing and improving the services we offer.
We are proud of our supportive working environment and our commitment to our SCMG values:
Seek solutions
Care and be compassionate
Mean what you say
Grow relationships
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Frailty Nurse Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our established PCN Frailty Team on a full-time basis. Based primarily at The Grove Surgery in Christchurch, you will work across the South Coast Medical Group PCN, providing proactive, high-quality care to our frail and predominantly housebound patient population.
This is an autonomous advanced clinical role, combining specialist frailty care with advanced assessment, diagnostic, prescribing and clinical decision-making skills.
Key ResponsibilitiesThe 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.
How to apply
Please send your CV and covering letter to SCMG HR and Ops.