Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Service delivery between 8am - 8pm 7 days per week)
- Job ref
- 186-127-26-GH
- Employer
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- South Notts, Mid Notts and Bassetlaw
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum (pro rata for part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/03/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 13/04/2026
Employer heading
Virtual Ward Community Practitioner
Band 6
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Job overview
We are seeking enthusiastic Senior Community Practitioners (Nurses) to join the Nottinghamshire Virtual Ward on a 12‑month fixed‑term/secondment basis. We are recruiting three posts at 30 hours per week.
1Post 30hrs - August 26-Aug 27
1Post 30hrs - August 26-August 27
1Post 30hrs - Starting ASAP - ending Jan 2027
Virtual Wards deliver hospital‑level care at home using remote monitoring, digital tools and multi‑disciplinary community support. Our service is part of a system‑wide collaborative across Nottinghamshire Healthcare, NUH, Sherwood Forest Hospitals, Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals and CityCare, ensuring seamless care across acute and community settings.
We support pathways including frailty, respiratory and admission avoidance. As a Band 6 Senior Community Practitioner, you will provide timely assessments, person‑centred care and advanced clinical decision‑making in patients’ homes, working both autonomously and within an established MDT.
This role offers opportunities to develop advanced assessment skills, contribute to innovative virtual care models and play a key part in system transformation. We welcome applications from nurses passionate about acute community care, digital innovation and supporting people to recover safely at home.
Main duties of the job
· Deliver timely, person‑centred assessments and provide high‑quality clinical care to patients on the Virtual Ward for up to 14 days.
· Work autonomously and within the MDT (including Matrons, Nurses, AHPs and support staff) to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and support safe early discharge.
· Interpret remote monitoring data, undertake face‑to‑face clinical reviews, identify deterioration and initiate appropriate interventions or escalation.
· Lead and coordinate safe, effective discharge planning and contribute to daily MDT discussions on treatment and risk.
· Support junior staff through supervision, role‑modelling and clinical guidance.
· Maintain accurate documentation on SystmOne and uphold professional standards, governance, and patient safety.
· Work flexibly across respiratory, frailty and admission avoidance pathways, following lone‑worker and dynamic risk assessment procedures.
Working for our organisation
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking to recruit a dynamic, flexible, and compassionate Senior Community Nurse to join this new and exciting service within the localities of South Nottinghamshire (Nottingham West, Nottingham North and East and Rushcliffe)
You will work within the virtual ward team and in collaboration with system partners such as City Care, as part of a supportive multi-disciplinary clinical team with a dedicated focus of delivering excellent patient centred care and innovation.
You must be able to work flexibly over 7 days including weekend and bank holidays.
Shifts are 8am -8pm
You will be providing care to patients in a community setting, who require high quality holistic evidence-based care that is responsive, effective, and efficient in line with the virtual ward model.
We would love to hear from you if:
· You possess community nursing experience or acute care experience with a passion for learning, demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be adaptable, reliable, resourceful, and approachable, evidencing high levels of personal and clinical credibility, being able to instantly establish effective working relationships in a range of work settings.
· You have a thirst to use digital and remote technologies within your assessments.
· You demonstrate high levels of care and compassion to promote independence, prevent hospital admission or admission to care, support early discharge from hospital and to help people to receive the care they require within the places they call home.
· You enjoy working collaboratively across organisation boundaries, within a multidisciplinary framework, analyse and develop treatment plans whilst providing compassionate, realistic, and timely support to a diverse patient group and their families
A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.
For a full range of role responsibilities and duties please refer to the attached job description - please ensure you demonstrate the essential criteria in the Job Description and Person Specification to be shortlisted for interview.
We have a depth and breadth of services and teams within the Community Health Services Division of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust with many different clinical levels and skills: everyone has a role to play and everyone is highly valued. We love to grow talent and foster innovation from within our team....so if you have ideas, are highly motivated, flexible and open to new experiences and new ways of working...we want to hear from you.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Awareness of the NHS Modernisation Agenda
- Case management for complex patients
- Ability to seek out current best practice based on research and evidence based enquiry
- Knowledge of the nursing 6 c’s
- Understanding of clinical risk assessments and risk management.
- Ability to deliver joint managed care
- People and Resource Management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration experience
- Experience of working autonomously
- Acute care experience
- Community or primary care experience
- Team Leadership
- Caseload Management and experience of triaging of patients with a range of clinical conditions.
- Multi-disciplinary working
- Experience of supervising and appraising staff
Desirable criteria
- Project Management
- Conflict Management
- Experience of close working relationships with a variety of statutory agencies and other external organisations
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Level 1 Registered General Nurse.
- Able to demonstrate management competencies
- Evidence of working at a senior level
- Degree level qualification or equivalent knowledge and experience in a health-related subject e.g Specialist Practice Degree or Leadership Qualification.
- Advanced clinical assessment evidence (practical evidence or courses)
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates continued professional development to maintain professional registration
- Holds a mentorship qualification and has ability to provide mentorship to others
- LBR qualifications
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- End of Life Care
- Frailty / LTC modules
- Advanced clinical assessment courses (Dreams/ Top to toe course)
Skills
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive clinical assessment skills including auscultation
- Teaching and assessing students
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- IT skills including Word, Excel and electronic patient record systems
- Effective problem solving and decision making skills
- Analytical and Diplomatic
- Motivated
- Able to lead by example
- Excellent organisational and planning skills
- Negotiation and problem solving skills
- Can demonstrate up to date evidence based clinical skills
Desirable criteria
- Ability to demonstrate RCA skills in investigating reported incidents
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Will Sutton
- Job title
- Virtual Ward Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920407947
- Additional information
Annalene Tucker
Matron
07768037106
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