Band 8A Frailty Practitioner- Pharmacist

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust ,
London, Greater London
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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history: Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye. With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career. We are an NHS Trust of 12,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities. With our partners, Imperial College London, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education. We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health. Fast forward your career and become a part of our new and exciting Frailty team. Over the past two years, the Trust has been growing the frailty service to make significant improvements in the way that care is delivered. Successes have been seen in terms of length of stay reduction, improved education and awareness of frailty and improved environment for our frail patients We would like to recruit a clinical expert and highly motivated Pharmacist and independent prescriber to join our team of Frailty Practitioners (nurses and therapists) in the delivery of the ICHT Frailty service. This is a new expansion of the existing frailty clinical teams which will see the teams move forward into the Emergency Department. This will facilitate early identification and targeted intervention for frail older adults presenting to our trust Emergency departments. The role involves working as an expert practitioner and clinical leader in the Frailty service, delivering person centred care, frailty screening and comprehensive assessment for older people and people with frailty across the Frailty Pathway at ICHT. Our frailty service is developing rapidly, therefore the post holder will actively contribute to service development and transformation work. The candidate will not only have an interest in improving care in frailty, but will also be an enthusiastic educator, as development of the local workforce to upskill in care of older adults will be a vital aspect of the role. You will have significant experience in working within an Emergency or Acute environment. You will have experience with older adults who are acutely unwell and will have undertaken the appropriate post registration education and practical experience to evidence your skills. The post is based within Urgent and Emergency Care, alongside the Department of Elderly medicine, with a strong interdisciplinary working and support networks. The role will require cross site working between St Mary's Hospital and Charging Cross Hospital. The Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date should we receive 50 applications prior to the advertised closing date. For further details / informal visits contact: For further details / informal visits contact: Seham Hussein Jama, Senior Lead Pharmacist Emergency & Elderly Medicine, on Sehamhussein.jama@nhs.net Catherine Sendall, Frailty Clinical Programme Manager, on Catherine.sendall@nhs.net Employment Type: FULL_TIME

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