# Intermediate Care Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/intermediate-care-nurse/f8ee62a3-e007-4717-af22-644a75721aae - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/intermediate-care-nurse/f8ee62a3-e007-4717-af22-644a75721aae.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Torbay Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Registered nurse - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Shifts to cover services from 8.00 am - 6.00pm. Includes weekend working on a rota basis.) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-23T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-09T14:11:05.519Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Devon/Newton_Abbot/Torbay_South_Devon_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Intermediate_Care_Nursing/Intermediate_Care_Nursing-v8271903 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8271903?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview You will be joining a truly multi-disciplinary team which aims to prevent hospital admissions, facilitate safe and effective discharges home and support patients in their own homes. This post will involve working within the Intermediate care Team with strong links to the Community Nursing Team. To work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing holistic nursing assessment nursing care, support and advice to patients in their own homes reducing hospital admission and/or length of stay. Our Health and Wellbeing Team is an integrated professional team which includes Social Care, Community Occupational Therapy, Community Physiotherapy, Intermediate Care, Community Nursing, Pharmacy, Dietetics, Support Workers and the local voluntary sector services. The team are proactive and have a forward-thinking core that promote a positive and ‘can do’ attitude. ### Main duties of the job - To provide initial and ongoing assessment of nursing needs and multidisciplinary needs of patients and carers in the community. When planning a programme of care, physical, social and emotional and cultural factors are taken into consideration and suitably qualified staff used to facilitate the level of care agreed. - To work as an autonomous practitioner in the planning and implementation of nursing treatment programmes. - To advise and instruct carers and patients on health and wellbeing issues, and self-care strategies - To carry out specialist and shared complex nursing assessments, to include continuing health care, medication review , prescribing and palliative care. - To utilise a broad range of specialised nursing skills and knowledge aligning practice to the organisations Medicines Policy for Registered professionals and the NMC Standards for Medicines management (2007) ensuring assessment and competence is maintained and recorded as a nurse prescriber. - To monitor and evaluate care programmes for patients and carers, promoting effective co-ordination and continuity of patient care. - To formulate and undertake the nursing care of patients as agreed with the patients themselves and their carers, following a patient contract, within the home environment. - The care to be carried out is evidence based. Judgement and analysis is used to compare treatment options. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification. Please note: Priority will be given to applicants with recognised 'Priority' or 'At Risk' status, including NHS staff identified across Devon. #caretojoinus ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Specific skills **Essential** - Holistic client assessment skills using an identified model of care - Evidence a range of clinical skills and undertake training where required to meet gaps in knowledge/competencies to meet service needs or identified as necessary by Team leads. - Ability to make sound clinical judgements and decisions in response to complex or crisis situations - Able to work as an autonomous practitioner - Ability to organise own work within a team setting - Self-motivated and able to use own initiative - Willingness to be challenged - Prepared to work flexibly - Sensitive and empathetic. - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both written and oral - Liaise with and develop effective partnerships with a wide range of individuals and organisations in the statutory, voluntary and private sectors, in relation to patients with complex and/or health conditions - Strong and effective decision making capabilities - Ability to identify own strengths and limitations - The post holder must demonstrate a positive commitment to uphold diversity and equality policies approved by the Trust - To be willing to work throughout the Trust according to service need - - Ability to travel and carry equipment adhering to the transporting equipment and passengers policy. **Desirable** - Health and Safety issues - Risk assessments ### Knowledge and experience **Essential** - - Able to provide detailed advice to other specialists and non-specialists - - Evidence of continual professional Development - - Able to work as an autonomous practitioner - - Proven relevant I.T. knowledge and experience **Desirable** - - Experience of working within multidisciplinary teams to influence high quality care programmes for patients with complex health needs - - Evidence of working at a senior level in community nursing, admission avoidance, unplanned care or primary care experience ### Qualifications and training **Essential** - Qualified Registered Nurse Level 1 - Bsc (hons) in Community Health Nursing (District) or equivalent or working towards **Desirable** - Independent / supplementary prescriber or committed to undertaking this course within 3 years of commencement to post - Mentorship qualification / skills and/or experience, or committed to undertaking appropriate mentorship course. - Previous Community experience or experience of lone working ## Documents - [cic nurse jd&ps (pdf, 496.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10587200) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.