Band 6 Urgent Community Response and Virtual Ward Nurse

NHS; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider seeks a Band 6 Urgent Community Response and Virtual Ward Nurse to deliver holistic assessments and interventions within a patient's home. This role focuses on preventing hospital admissions and ensuring safe discharges, requiring strong clinical assessment skills and a commitment to patient-centered care.

Qualifications

• Relevant clinical qualification (e.g., RGN) with current registration.
• Minimal 4 years post-registration experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development and relevant degree.

Responsibilities

• Carry out comprehensive holistic assessments for patients.
• Implement and evaluate care programs to maintain patients at home.
• Facilitate admission to appropriate settings when necessary.

Skills

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Clinical assessment

Patient care

Caseload management

Education

Relevant clinical qualification with current registration

Relevant Degree level qualification or equivalent experience

Evidence of continuing professional development

Health assessment course

Non-medical prescriber

Job description

Go back University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Band 6 Urgent Community Response and Virtual Ward Nurse

The closing date is 23 June 2025

The Urgent Community Response Team aims to deliver holistic assessments and interventions to individuals who are at risk of hospital admission within their own home within 2 hours of referral to the service. The aim of the team is to enable people to stay at home, recover, and re-engage with the important aspects of their life and prevent admission to acute sectors.

The post holder will work in the Urgent community response team and Virtual Wards to assist in the prevention of inappropriate hospital admissions and the facilitation of hospital discharge in line with the overall objectives of the service.

The post holder will ensure access to Urgent Health Assessments, provide and monitor short term treatment programmes at home and ensure safe discharge or referral to long term health and social care interventions.

To work in partnership with primary, secondary and other health and social care providers, to ensure patients receive appropriate investigation, intervention and treatment with minimal avoidable delays, whilst improving the quality of care.

To put the patient at the centre of all decisions, reinforcing the concept of a more streamlined patient journey, improving the quality of care.

To develop and maintain a culture of service improvement which promotes quality and safety and striving to do better

The post holder will be expected to work within a flexible working pattern over a 7-day week in the urgent community response team as required.

Main duties of the job

* Carry out comprehensive holistic assessments of the care needs of people referred to the service seeking support and advice from senior colleagues in situations that are outside the post holder's sphere of competence.

* With support where necessary from senior colleagues, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care designed to maintain the patient in his / her own home.

* In situations where the patient cannot be maintained safely at home facilitate admission to the most appropriate setting.

* Demonstrate, teach and supervise basic nursing care that families can safely provide between visits.

* In conjunction with therapists, measure for and order special adaptations and equipment indicated by the assessment and plan of care.

* Carry out a range of nursing interventions, to include cannulation and IV drug

administration, working within the scope of professional practice

* Communicate effectively verbally and in writing with colleagues and stakeholders, utilising electronic methods of communication within the remit of the Data Protection Act ensuring clinical information is conveyed within a timeframe that ensures patient safety.

* Ensure safe and effective clinical practice.

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

• *Relevant clinical qualification with current registration (eg RGN
• *
• *Relevant Degree level qualification or equivalent experience.
• *
• *Minimal 4 years post registration experience
• *
• *Evidence of continuing professional development
• *
• *Health assessment course
• *Non-medical prescriber

Experience

• *Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team setting
• *Experience of comprehensive clinical assessment of patients
• *Experience of caring for patients who are acutely ill/require rehabilitation plan/end of life care
• *Experience of effective caseload management
• *Experience in line management and supervising junior staff
• *Experience in facilitating professional development of other staff and ability to motivate others
• *Experience in collection, collation and analysis of data for clinical audit and research

Additional Criteria

• *Professional appearance
• *Displays genuine interest in the post applied for and can articulate this when questioned
• *Positive and enthusiastic attitude
• *Ability to communicate articulately others
• *Caring and approachable
• *Punctual
• *Reliable
• *Ability to work a varied shift pattern
• *unsocial hours where required
• *The applicant can describe why the Trust may deploy him /her to a different practice setting for a span of duty
• *Able to meet the travel requirements of the post and be independently mobile and as such it is essential for you to possess a full category B car driving licence preferably clean or with no more than a maximum of 3 points

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