Band 6 Out of Hours Registered Nurse

NHS; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking an Out of Hours Registered Nurse in Solihull to provide high-quality care in the community. The role demands a motivated and independent practitioner who can manage a caseload of patients overnight and collaborate with team members. NMC registration and experience in community nursing are essential. The position offers a supportive environment with opportunities for professional development and a flexible working schedule between 21:00 and 07:30.

Qualifications

• Experience in holistic assessment and planning of patient care.
• Ability to work independently and manage night nursing team.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development and knowledge of NHS issues.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality, evidence-based care to patients during out-of-hours.
• Assess, plan, and deliver care independently.
• Manage night nursing team and support junior colleagues.

Skills

Holistic assessment

Patient care planning

Effective communication

Driving

Leadership

Education

NMC registration

Professional knowledge through degree or equivalent

Job description

Band 6 Out of Hours Registered Nurse

The closing date is 06 January 2026

Go back University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for an experienced and forward-thinking nurse to join our Community Nursing Team in Solihull as an Out of Hours Nurse, working three nights per week.

This role is ideal for a highly motivated, dynamic practitioner who thrives when working autonomously and is passionate about delivering exceptional care within the community. Previous community nursing experience is essential.

Our Community Nursing Teams are enthusiastic, supportive, and committed to delivering the highest standards of patient-centred care. You'll be part of a skilled and compassionate group of professionals who work collaboratively with colleagues across primary and secondary care, as well as with patients, families, and carers in their own homes.

As an Out of Hours Community Nurse, you will:

• Provide high quality, evidence-based care to patients with a wide range of needs, including those with complex conditions
• Work independently to assess, plan, and deliver care during out-of-hours periods
• Contribute to maintaining the highest standards of safety, quality, and patient experience
• Respond confidently to the evolving demands of community and primary care services

At UHB, you'll never be on your own. You'll receive ongoing support from your team, managers, and our dedicated School of Nursing, AHPs and Midwifery, which offers a wide range of development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for highly motivated, forward-thinking, energetic, and innovative individuals who pride themselves in providing complex and holistic patient assessment, and who are dedicated to delivering exceptional standards of care. In return, we offer a robust induction package, competency frameworks as well as a development and training programmes. This will include individual and personalised support, coaching and assessment in order to maximise your full individual potential.

As a Senior nurse you will demonstrate good leadership skills with the ability to independently make sound clinical and leadership judgements and regularly support and supervise junior colleagues. You will also hold responsibility for the management of the night nursing team and an entity.

You will need to be able to meet the needs of the service by being available to work flexibly between the hours of 21.00 and 07.30. On a rota basis over a 7-day period and be able to drive.

We are committed to helping you grow your skills and progress your career in a nurturing and supportive environment.

The team is based at Solihull Hospital – Ward 10. We encourage informal discussions or site visits; Please contact Harry Moore Senior District Nurse, 07833477535 or Jackie O'Sullivan Senior District Nurse, 07977035621.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job responsibilities

Please note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Specialist expertise underpinning theory
• NMC registration
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Knowledge of current issues affecting the NHS and Social Care particularly in Trust.

Experience

• Experience in holistic assessment, planning implementation and evaluation of patient care.
• Ability to provide specialist advice.
• Ability to review and analyse service delivery and organisational issues.
• Ability to put strategy into action e.g., change management.
• Ability to work across professional and organisational boundaries.
• Plan, implement and evaluate educational/training programmes of evidence-based practice.
• Plan/implement and evaluate service development changes.
• Ability to plan implement evaluate care packages for patients.
• Ability to plan own workload and those of others.

Additional Criteria

• Ability to communicate with team members on one-to-one basis or as a group to promote effective team working
• Able to communicate highly sensitive information.
• Liaise with multi-agency professional to provide seamless effective service to patients and carers, especially to those services that provide out of hours cover.
• To actively participate in developing networks with other Out of Hours service providers.
• Participate in team meetings and acknowledge/respect other team member's opinions/views.
• Provide one to one or group training to student nurses whilst on community placement
• To ensure confidentiality at all times
• Ability to effectively manage patient information and analyse data from a clinical perspective.
• Able to provide written communication in the form of care management plans and reports.
• Ability to use teaching aids
• Ability to demonstrate use of medical devices/equipment related to patients/carers
• Ability to undertake manual handling procedures related to patient care
• Driving
• Ability to manage high risk vulnerable patients
• Responsible for a defined caseload of patients
• Ability to assess develops and implements care packages for patients on a defined caseload and provide specialist advice to patients and relatives.
• Ability to respond appropriately to urgent situations.
• Ability to review service delivery
• Ability to develop and implement policies and guidelines to support provision of nursing care to patients especially those related to care outside of normal hours
• Knowledge of national and strategic initiative in nursing
• Ability to manage resources within the Nursing team
• Ability to provide clinical supervision to colleagues and students
• Ability to work proactively to manage change in practice to improve delivery of care to patients on the nursing caseload.
• Ability to maintain accurate patient/client records
• Analytical and audit skills
• Presentational skills
• Ability to engage in the development of audit and research in nursing
• Knowledge of strategic and national initiatives with health care
• Knowledge of clinical governance agenda in relation to nursing patients in the community
• Accountable for own clinical actionsAbility to interpret policies
• Ability to undertake manual handling procedures on patients
• Require daily concentration of patients assessment and delivery of care
• Ability to liaise with other discipline when dealing with stressful situationsAbility to write reports
• Ability to work with frequent interruptions
• Analytical skills
• Ability to give presentations and educational sessions
• Ability to communicate sensitive issues
• Ability to work under stressful circumstances
• Predominately works in community setting within patients homes
• Ability to work within various locations to meet the needs of patients on the caseload
• Requires full driving license.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust