Job overview
The Discharge to Assess team are looking for a Registered Nurse, to fulfil an exciting opportunity within the community in Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.
We need people who share our excitement, embrace different ways of working and are able to work flexibly across organisational boundaries. An opportunity has arisen for a Registered Nurse – Band 6, to work flexibly within the Discharge To Assess/Intermediate Care at Home Team.
The Discharge To Assess element is a multi-professional service who assess patients upon discharge from hospital in the community. We provide individualised care to meet the person’s needs and facilitate transfer for onward care into the appropriate service: Health, Adult Social care or partner agencies. The Intermediate Care at Home Team provide nursing and therapy rehabilitation to patients within the Stockport community.
Main duties of the job
The Discharge to Assess element: to support people who are clinically optimised and do not require an acute hospital bed, but may still require care services with short term, funded support to be discharged to their own home or another community setting.
Assessment for longer-term care and support needs is then undertaken in the most appropriate setting and at the right time for the person. We provide holistic multidisciplinary interventions and support in order to stabilise patients in their own home or usual residence. This comprises a multi-disciplinary integrated team.
The Rehabilitation Element incorporates a free, short-term rehabilitation service for adults to help prevent unnecessary hospital admission, enable early discharge from hospital and prevent unnecessary admission to long-term residential care. This role will require the post holder to be flexible to cover all areas within the Discharge to Assess service, covering 7 days 08.00-21.00.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be a qualified Registered Nurse. You will be working within a multi-professional team incorporating Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Social Workers and rehabilitation Support Workers, as well as liaising with other community health and social care teams.
The whole service provides a person centred approach, which can be provided in a client’s own home. The service is provided across 7 days a week covering core hours of 8 am – 9 pm.
You will be based at 1 Wellington Road, Wellington Road North, Stockport, SK4 1AF The successful candidate will be expected to work independently, but also as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team. You will be offered 1:1s and access to supervision peer support. The service promotes regular profession specific and MDT team meetings.
You will need to be a Registered Nurse with an enthusiasm for working within the community, with the ability to work flexibly between all aspects of the service. We place a great emphasis on training and personal development and will provide you with access to training and supervision. The candidate will be able to demonstrate sound clinical reasoning, excellent time management and advanced communication skills. There will be support available from clinical leads. Lone working is an expected element within this community role with support from the Multidisciplinary team.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of community practices and a wide range of conditions- theoretical, practical and professional
- Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance
- Health, safety and risk awareness. Knowledge of Risk Assessment and management.
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application and practice.
- Knowledge of health legislation and current practice. Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act and application
- Knowledge of Safeguarding responsibilities
Desirable
- • Knowledge of working in community services
- • Completion of recognised relevant postgraduate courses.
Experience
Essential
- • Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- • Experience of student or assistant supervision and clinical education of less experienced staff or students or assistants.
- • Experience of working with patients with dementing illness, confused patients and patients with severe physical limitations to mobility.
- Experience of participation in complex discharge planning
- • Experience of working in an acute UK hospital including experience of the following specialities. Orthopaedics; Medicine; Respiratory; Stroke/Neurology; Older people.
Desirable
- • Experience of community working
- Experience of conflict resolution
Skills and abilities
Essential
- • Very good problem-solving abilities and ability to prioritise
- • Clinical reasoning skills
- • Ability to communicate with patients with complex needs and problems and to cope with aggressive or emotional behaviours.
- • Able to manage time effectively
- • Up-to-date in current issues around professional practice and evidence-based practice.
- • Ability to keep accurate and legible patient notes.
- • Ability to work under pressure
- • Positive approach to work.
- • Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
Desirable
- • Competent IT and presentation skills.
- • Ability to run internal/external courses. Evidence of participation in research.
Work related circumstances
Essential
- Ability to move and handle patients
- Undertake out of hours duties; evenings and weekends required.
- Driver with daily access to a car
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- • Degree in Adult Nursing
- • State Registration with the NMC
- • Ability to travel independently and efficiently across multiple community sites to meet the operational requirements of the role
- • Evidence of Continuous Professional Development maintained in a portfolio including attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant to the clinical fields in rotations
Desirable
- Related academic attainment
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This advert is for Community practitioner - Discharge to Assess/Intermediate Care at Home with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust in Stockport, North West, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata per annum. The contract type is Fixed term: 9 months (Maternity leave cover). The application deadline is 06 Aug 2026.
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