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Older Person’s Fellowship
Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
For Nurses and Allied Health Professionals
Contents
The King’s Older Person’s Fellowship (OPF) is delivered by Kings College London (King’s), Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery and sponsored by Health Education England. This unique programme is designed to enhance the knowledge, leadership and innovation of senior clinical practitioners and allied health professionals (AHP) in older person’s services across England.
Introduction 3
Opportunity for academic development 4
Details of the Fellowship 6
Applications 7
Funding and contact us 8
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From Left: Waterloo Campus, Guy’s Campus, St Thomas’ Campus & Strand Campus
Introduction
The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery is directly descended from the first School of Nursing founded by Florence Nightingale and today we are at the forefront of health education and research.
We are committed to developing the future leaders in the fields of nursing and midwifery. We are keen to attract the best students and aim to deliver an excellent student experience in a thriving and supportive environment.
The Faculty is part of King’s College London, Europe’s largest centre for professional healthcare education and an international leader in innovation in healthcare.
The ethos of the Older Person’s Multidisciplinary Fellowship is quality, safety, service transformation and innovation in older person’s care. The Fellowship will deliver confident, competent and compassionate leaders to act as agents of change and drive, transformation within older person’s services.
Fellows will be part of King’s and the King’s Health Partners Academic Health Science Centre. The course will enable Fellows to realise their full potential, to include becoming:
• An expert practitioner in the holistic care of older people.
• An innovator in care delivery and service development.
• Skilled in the implementation and evaluation of innovation.
• A recognised leader and role model in older person’s care.
• A resilient and self-aware individual.
• An agent of change, shaping the future of healthcare for older people.
• Confident and committed to disseminating excellence in older person’s care among national and international communities.
KING’S COLLEGE OLDER PERSON’S FELLOWSHIP
Opportunity for academic development
Have you the drive and vision to champion excellence
in care for older people in your organisation, as well as on a national and international stage?
The Older Person’s Fellowship will help you realise your ambition to lead innovation and quality improvement in care for older people underpinned by up-to-date evidence.
You will become a passionate voice for older people; and have the opportunity to be part of a vibrant network of like-minded nurses and allied health professionals
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Details of the Fellowship
This is a 12 month Fellowship, with students attending King’s College London once a month, in addition there are two residentials of two/three day duration (in total 14 face-to-face study days). Between the formal study days students engage with the course and each other using on-line technology. The residentials, with overnight accommodation and dinner, facilitate networking, collaboration and socialisation.
Learning is student-centred and structured around two Level 7 modules. The course is part of the MSc in Advanced Practice delivered by the Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery. On successful completion of the Fellowship, students exit with a Graduate Certificate in Advanced Practice (60 academic credits).
KING’S COLLEGE OLDER PERSON’S FELLOWSHIP
The Fellowship modules
Module 1: Advanced Knowledge and Skills in the Care of Older People (15 credits).
Module 2: Leadership in Service Development, Innovation and Quality Improvement in Older Person’s Care (45 credits).
Modules are designed for Fellows to develop specific skills and expertise, as shown in the Expertise Tree below.
Older Person’s Fellowship Skills and Expertise Tree
Enhanced knowledge and skills
Leadership in servicedevelopment and quality improvement
Resilience and personal development
Advanced assessment skills in older persons:• Medication resolution• Mental health and cognitive screening• Communication skills (advanced care and end of life planning)• Complex case management (frailty, dementia, family adaptive therapies)
• Identifying service and PPI priorities• Engaging stakeholders and PPI• Goal setting• Implementation• Sustaining initiatives
• Explore benefits and value in supportive environment• Examine past successes and challenges in current role• Enhance coping and resilience strategies for self and peers
Complexcase historiespresentation
Patient safety /innovation changeproject and selfreflection on leadingproject
Patient safety /innovation changeproject and selfreflection on leadingproject
KING’S COLLEGE OLDER PERSON’S FELLOWSHIP
Module 1: Enhanced Knowledge and Skills in Older Person’s Care (15 credits)
Learning outcomes:On successful completion of this module, Fellows will be able to:
• Demonstrate a systematic understanding and critical awareness of evidence-based decision making in the management of older people with complex health and social care needs.
• Critically synthesis and integrate advanced level knowledge (including policies and guidelines) with creative problem solving to assess and manage complex health, psychological, social and environmental challenges faced by older people within and during transitions in care settings.
• Discuss and examine creative and original approaches to identify and integrate an older person’s and his/her family’s preferences into health and social care packages and advanced care planning.
• Critique care management decisions from an ethical patient/service user, cost and resource perspective.
• Demonstrate confident and competent scholarship in oral and written dissemination of evidence based practice.
The module focuses on quality of life issues for older people, including: Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, frailty, nutrition, mobility, pharmacology and poly-pharmacy, pain management, mental health, cognitive screening, and end of life care.
Fellows are assessed through a written case study.
Module 2:Leadership in Service Development and QualityImprovement in Older Person’s Care (45 credits)
Learning outcomes:On successful completion of this module Fellows will be able to:
• Demonstrate a systematic understanding of the application of quality improvement theory and practice through undertaking a service improvement or innovation initiative within the student’s organisation Analyse the political and strategic context of the change management initiative within the Fellow’s organisation and the broader national context.
• Integrate public/service user feedback into the design, implementation and evaluation of the project.
• Critically evaluate the implementation process, the outcomes and sustainability of the project from an older person’s and organisational perspectives.
• Construct a cost-consequent analysis of the project.
• Demonstrate originality, creative, initiative and a practical understanding of problem solving and management of complex organisational situations.
• Explore personal leadership and resilience attributes and skills in the context of the change project and broader personal development.
• Demonstrate confident and competent scholarship in oral and written project presentation.
Learning in this module is structured to support Fellows to undertake a quality improvement initiative within their own organisation. Topics covered include theory underpinning Quality Improvement (QI), designing an implementation plan, outcome measurement, Public Patient Involvement (PPI), data management, cost analysis and evaluation.
In addition, workshops on self and organisational resilience and leadership are scheduled in partnership with The Centre for
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ApplyingWe are seeking to recruit clinical nurses and AHPs, from across England, who currently work in older person’s services in the community, primary care, acute or social care, mental health, hospice care or voluntary sector.
Applicants should already have specialist knowledge and skills in working with older people, as well as experience and responsibility for decision making at a senior level in their organisations.
Specific criteria:• Individuals who can demonstrate
relevant experience of working in older person’s healthcare at a senior level.
• A significant part of the individual’s current role is clinical and includes frequent contact with older people and their families.
• Senior position within the organisation for example has responsibility or input into quality improvement or service development.
• Candidates are likely to be working in roles at NHS Bands 7 and 8, such as clinical nurse specialist/AHP, advanced nurse practitioner, nurse consultant/AHP or community matron. In exceptional circumstances, candidates at a Band 6, who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and innovation within their organisation, will also be considered.
• Candidates must have evidence of higher level education - a minimum of a BSc or graduate diploma
• Candidates must hold a current NMC Registration or Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) as appropriate.
Applied Resilience in Healthcare (www.resiliencecentre.org.uk) and the NHS Leadership Academy (www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk).
Funding support for the Fellowship
Students are funded to attend King’s one day a month over 12 months with an additional two residential sessions. A competitive recruitment process will entail completion of the Kings OPF application process.
Thirty funded places (tuition fees and travel) will be offered.
For information on the application process and course updates, please access the Kings Older Person’s Fellowship webpage at:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nursing/Older-Persons-Fellowship/Index.aspx
Contact Us
If you have any questions about the Fellowshipor how to apply, please email King’s CollegeLondon Florence Nightingale Faculty ofNursing and Midwifery with any questions, [email protected]
How to Apply:
Applicants must:
• Completed OPF application form
• Provide ‘Letter of Nomination’ from Director of Nursing/AHPs or CEO
• Be available for interview
• Send a completed application (all of the above) to:
by the application deadline of 10/11/16
The OPF application form (including interview dates) and Letter of Nomination template are downloadable from the OPF webpage.
Further information on how to apply can be found at:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nursing/Older-Persons-Fellowship/Index.aspx
KING’S COLLEGE OLDER PERSON’S FELLOWSHIP