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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Registered Nurse,  Allied Health Professional or  Qualified Social Worker to join the Greenwich Frailty Team. Our key aim is to ensure patients remain at home with appropriate health and social services support, reducing avoidable non elective admissions. This is achieved by providing a planned multidisciplinary assessment service designed to support GP’s and other primary and community care practitioners to keep people independent at home or in the community for longer, maintaining their quality of life by providing additional management of sub-acute exacerbations of existing long term conditions and or functional decline in people living with frailty.

Identifying people with frailty and improving their care and support are priorities for health and care systems. The NHS Long Term Plan and Five Year Forward View include aims for the NHS and social care relating to frailty care. Our goal is to develop an approach to care co-ordination to support moderately frail people in Greenwich to remain as independent as possible and prevent unnecessary deterioration.  We plan to bridge the gap between primary, secondary and social care to ensure frailty is recognised early in all care settings and that people living with frailty have:

• Access to services that promote healthy ageing,
• Care planned, with them, in advance, so they stay as well as they can
• An agreement with us about what to do when their condition deteriorates

Main duties of the job

The post holder will carry out a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) with patients in their own homes to develop an integrated care plan which will be reviewed at Multi-disciplinary meetings with all stakeholders which includes Consultant Geriatricians and Psychiatrists, GPs, Psychologists and Pharmacists.  Once integrated care plans have been devised the post holder will work with the Frailty Team Care Navigators to ensure co-ordination of the care plan and case manage patients on caseload. 

Working for our organisation

Oxleas Values

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care