Staff Nurse - RUH at Home

Job overview

Deliver hospital-level care where it can make a real difference: in a patient’s own home.

Applicants must hold a full UK driving licence and have access to their own vehicle, as the role requires regular travel between sites and locations.

If you enjoy variety, autonomous working and building meaningful relationships with patients, while using your clinical skills to help people avoid an unnecessary hospital stay or return home sooner, this could be a fantastic next step in your nursing career.

RUH Hospital at Home (RUH at Home) is our consultant-led virtual ward, supporting patients who would otherwise need to be admitted to hospital, or who can safely return home earlier with the right clinical support around them. The service works closely with primary, community and social care partners to ensure safe transitions of care.

You will join a multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, therapists, therapy assistants and healthcare assistants providing personalised acute care in patients’ homes, seven days a week between 08:00 and 18:00.

As a nurse working within RUH at Home, you will have the opportunity to work with greater autonomy, assessing patients with acute and complex needs, developing individualised care plans, delivering evidence-based interventions and identifying and responding to changes in patients’ conditions.

Whilst working independently in the community, you will never be working in isolation. You will be part of a wider multidisciplinary team, who are there to support you as well as working closely with primary, community and social care colleagues to ensure patients receive safe, coordinated care.

Main duties of the job

In this key role, you will:

• Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate individualised nursing care for patients with acute and complex needs in their own homes.
• Work autonomously, using your clinical judgement to recognise deterioration, respond appropriately and escalate concerns when required.
• Deliver safe, effective and compassionate care, including the administration of medicines and treatments.
• Work closely with the RUH@Home multidisciplinary team and wider health and care partners to provide coordinated, patient-centred care.
• Support admission avoidance and early supported discharge, helping patients receive high-quality care safely at home.
• Involve patients, families and carers in care planning, providing advice and education to promote independence and informed decision-making.
• Maintain clear and accurate clinical records and contribute to patient safety, quality improvement and service development.
• Support the supervision and development of students, healthcare support workers and new colleagues as appropriate

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is a community-based role which requires the ability to work independently across a wide geographical area whilst remaining connected to the wider multidisciplinary team. Excellent communication, compassion and adaptability are essential, as patient needs can change throughout the day.

Please refer to the attached job description and person spec for further information about this opportunity.

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.