Older persons fellowship - applications open

Applications to become an expert in providing high quality care for older people are now open.

The Older Persons Fellowship for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), sponsored by Health Education England (HEE), aims to drive clinical excellence, innovation and quality improvement in care for older people.

The ethos of the Older Persons Fellowship is quality, safety, service transformation and innovation in older people’s care. This multidisciplinary Fellowship will empower confident, competent, and compassionate leaders to act as role models and agents of change, to transform person-centred services.

The Fellowship enables Fellows to realise their full potential including becoming an expert nurse/AHP in the holistic care of older people and an innovator in quality improvement and service development.

Fellows will become skilled in the implementation and evaluation of innovation and recognised leaders and role models in older person’s care.

Professor Lisa Bayliss-Pratt, Director of Nursing, HEE, said:

Working with our valued partners, we are helping to shape the future of high quality health and care for older people by continuing to grow highly resilient and self-aware Older People Nursing and AHP Fellows, who themselves are leaders able to motivate others within an outside their professions to achieve exacting standards in health and social care.

If you are a nurse or an AHP who is committed to transforming the quality of care of older people, then becoming a Fellow could be the ideal route to achieving your ambitions.

HEE provides funding for tuition fees, residential accommodation costs for specified residential sessions, plus travel costs for university study days.

Fellows are part of King’s College London and the King’s Health Partners Academic Health Science Centre.