Acute Medical Specialist Nurse (Acute Hospital at Home)

Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Exeter; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Devon seeks an Acute Medical Specialist Nurse to enhance community-focused care. You will work within Acute Hospital at Home and lead patient transitions from acute trusts to home settings. Responsibilities include patient assessments to ensure safe discharges and collaborating with nursing teams on best practices. Ideal candidates will have experience in acute medicine responsibilities and a commitment to patient safety. This position offers diverse responsibilities in a collaborative healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Experience across specialty Acute Medicine functions, particularly Acute Hospital at Home and Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy.
• Solid understanding of triage and ability to provide clinical advice to nursing teams.
• Ability to assess patients for safe discharge into community care.

Responsibilities

• Work across various Acute Medicine specialty functions in a community setting.
• Lead transitions between acute care and community services to ensure patient safety.
• Proactively recruit new patients from inpatient wards, ensuring their safe discharge.

Job description

Acute Medical Specialist Nurse (Acute Hospital at Home)

The closing date is 30 December 2025.

Main duties of the job

For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most.

Responsibilities

• Work across a range of specialty Acute Medicine functions, primarily Acute Hospital at Home (AHAH) and Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT). Work closely with AHAH in Northern Service and may be required to travel.
• Lead delivery of seamless transition between the acute trust and the community, ensuring patients are kept safe and the best possible care is delivered. Current patient streams managed by this service are OPAT, AF, COVID, AKI, Heart Failure, NSTEMI, Syncope, Palliative and Frailty. New work streams will be introduced.
• Proactively seek new patients to recruit from AMU, SDEC and wards across the hospital, assessing these patients and driving safe discharge into AHAH.
• Improve and maintain the AHAH service based on best practice and current national guidelines.
• Work closely with the AMU nursing team to provide support and clinical advice to triage nurses, including streaming patients directly to agreed rapid treatment protocols within SDEC. Expected to have a solid understanding of triage and role model good practice.

About us

Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services cover more than 615,000 people across more than 2,000 square miles. We provide emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. We offer integrated health and social care services, primary care, specialist community services and Sexual Assault Referral Centres. Our state‑of‑the‑art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovation, enabling world‑class care to our local communities.

Person Specification

• See job description text above.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a DBS check.

Employer name

Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust