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Job summary

Main area
Primary and Community
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 36 hours per week (Hours available between 24 and 36 per week - 12 hour shifts 07:30-20:00)
Job ref
040-NMR299-0825
Employer
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Torfaen CRT Cedar Site.
Town
Pontypool
Salary
£39,263 - £47,280 per annum, pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
18/08/2025 23:59
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Rapid Frailty Response Practitioner

Band 6

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments OR SUPPORT needed. If you need any documents in a larger font or a different format (such as braille) please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3 OR EMAIL [email protected]

If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.

The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable. 

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process

 

Job overview

The Rapid Response Team plays a vital role in admission avoidance, delivering a ‘hospital at home’ model of care for individuals experiencing acute illness. The team also supports early discharge from The Grange University Hospital, working closely with the Front Door Frailty Team to ensure seamless transitions from hospital to home.
This role is central to supporting the frailty agenda, particularly the Six Goals for Urgent and Emergency Care, by enabling patients to remain safely at home. The post holder will work collaboratively with the integrated team at the Grange front door, using their knowledge of the community offer to support safe and sustainable discharge planning.
The team operates as part of a wider multi-disciplinary network, including General Practitioners, Consultants, District Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Community Psychiatric Nurses, Social Workers, Support and Well-being Workers, and the Voluntary Sector.
Key Responsibilities:
  • Deliver high-quality, person-centred nursing care in the community during periods of acute illness.
  • Undertake and contribute to Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments to support frail individuals in remaining at home.
  • Facilitate early discharge from hospital by working closely with the Grange Front Door Team and community services.
  • Provide timely nursing assessment, care planning, implementation, and evaluation.
  • Promote health and prevent illness through proactive interventions and education.

Main duties of the job

  • To be responsible for the assessment, planning implementation and evaluation of care for community-based patients. 
  • To work as a member of the wider primary care and community multi-disciplinary team.
  • Administration of IV therapies within the community and Cedar Unit Clinic.
  • support the patients  at front door at grange to be pulled back into community- with knowledge of community offer. 
  • To support the Team Leader, in developing the Rapid Response Team and raising the profile of the Rapid Response Service within the Borough.
 
An informal visit by anyone prior to application would be welcome by the team.
 

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in TRAC. 

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant experience working as a qualified RN.
  • Assessment and provision of care to people within frailty/community.
  • Working as part of a multi disciplinary team.
  • Mentoring Students and other Healthcare professionals.
Desirable criteria
  • Involvement of undertaking a training needs assessment and analysis.
  • Staff caseload supervision.
  • Team Leading.
  • Supervision and development of junior staff.
  • Staff reviews/appraisals working with staff to identify development needs.

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Level 1 Nurse, Degree Level Education
  • Evidence of recent post registration, professional development
Desirable criteria
  • CPA
  • Post Grad qualification
  • community experience

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to perform extended clinical skills; Intravenous therapy, cannulation, phlebotomy, syringe drivers, male and female catheterisation, removal of sutures
  • An understanding of the structure for the delivery for primary health care services.
  • Able to communicate succinctly and effectively verbally, in writing and electronically
  • Able to present information effectively to individuals and groups
Desirable criteria
  • ECDL or equivalent.
  • Able to lead a team of nurses and support workers.
  • Demonstrates ability to research, critique and change practices.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge and compliance with NMC Codes of Practice.
  • An up to date working knowledge of :- Acute, chronic and terminal illness, wound management, care of the elderly, drug interactions, aetiology and physiology of pain, pain assessment, and strategies for effective pain and associated symptom control.
Desirable criteria
  • Clinical Supervision
  • Knowledge and understanding of audit and research
  • knowledge of frailty and admission avoidance.

Personal attributes.

Essential criteria
  • Work autonomously under own initiative
  • Able to act as a catalyst to promote change
  • Able to make purposeful decisions in stressful or pressurised situations
Desirable criteria
  • Able to demonstrate innovative practice.
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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Welsh language skills are desirable

Documents to download

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Zoe Carter
Job title
Consultant Nurse
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07977817044

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