# Staff Nurse - Virtual Ward and Hospital at Home Team > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/staff-nurse-virtual-ward-and-hospital-at-home-team/3e860d7d-480b-4d2b-8a2c-84cd67654b36 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/staff-nurse-virtual-ward-and-hospital-at-home-team/3e860d7d-480b-4d2b-8a2c-84cd67654b36.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust - **Location:** Science Park - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 pro rata per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day rota) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-02T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-19T12:20:46.672Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Wolverhampton/The_Royal_Wolverhampton_NHS_Trust/Adult_Community_Services/Adult_Community_Services-v7993562 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7993562?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview VIRTAUL WARD AND HOSPITAL AT HOME TEAM If you are creative, a dynamic thinker and want to influence people to develop similar proactive ideals, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is the place for you. As a Community Nurse at the Virtual Ward you will be expected to manage daily operations of caseload, triage referrals for admission, support staff with patient escalation. Troubleshoot, safety net and make clinical decisions to keep patients safe at home. In addition, you will further develop junior staff. Proficiency in IT and the ability to quickly learn multiple computer systems are crucial for this position. Please note this vacancy role requires face to face patient management as well as virtual management and therefore the team members will be expected to conduct face to face assessments in line with patient/ caseload needs. We are particularly interested in nurses with a surgical background as we look to develop our surgical pathways. ### Main duties of the job To provide high quality nursing care and participate in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care needs for the patient group. To deliver compassionate person-centred care, and treat patients, service users, their families and their carers with consideration, dignity and the respect you would want for yourself or your family. To provide relevant forms of care with minimal supervision and participate in the supervision and teaching and assessment of unregistered or junior staff and students. To play an active part in the continuing development of the ward or department and contribute to the maintenance of an environment conducive to the delivery of high standards of patient care, by promoting good communication and relationships between staff, patients, relatives and visitors. Providing IV medications to patients with a home environment and clinic/outpatient setting to avoid hospital admission. Please refer to the vacancy job description and person specification and contact the senior sister of the team. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities ### 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 ### Acute/community experience **Essential** - Acute NHS hospital experience as a registered nurse - Community experience ### Experience of long term condition management **Essential** - Experience in long term conditions - Strong IT skills **Desirable** - Degree module for long term conditions ie respiratory, asthma, diabetes - Health assessment module ### Registered Nursing experience of at least 6-12 months **Essential** - NMC Qualification - FULL UK Driving license and access to own vehicle with business insurance (cover for driving for work) - Registered Nursing experience of at least 6-12 months - Competent in IV administration **Desirable** - Competent in use of longlines (PICC, Hickman, smart-mid) - Cannulation and venepuncture ## Documents - [wolverhampton map (pdf, 600.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2032) - [flexible working commitment (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2380) - [rwt professional standards (pdf, 95.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3048) - [employee rewards booklet v.15 (pdf, 1.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2083) - [rwt health & wellbeing offer (pdf, 945.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3027) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 888.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10277727) - [clinical academic career framework v5.1 (pdf, 317.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2758) - [using ai when completing application forms (pdf, 320.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2969) ## 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.