Hospital Out of Hours Practitioner

Integrated Care System; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in Sutton-in-Ashfield is seeking an experienced Hospital Out of Hours Practitioner to ensure effective safe clinical care outside of normal hours. The ideal candidate will have a nursing degree, strong clinical leadership skills, and significant post-registration experience. This role offers a competitive salary range of £47,810 to £54,710 per year pro rata and requires flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Good communication skills with clear written and oral skills.
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Significant post registration experience in a senior position.

Responsibilities

• Providing strong clinical leadership within a multi-professional team.
• Responding to critical issues, Acute response and Cardiac Arrest calls.
• Prioritising workloads with the aid of Nerve Centre.

Skills

Good communication skills

Strong clinical leadership

Advanced assessment skills

Education

1st Level Registered Nurse

Degree in Nursing or equivalent

Job description

Go back Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Hospital Out of Hours Practitioner

The closing date is 31 August 2025

Are you an experienced Registered Nurse looking to make a significant impact in healthcare? King's Mill Hospital has an exciting opportunity for you!

As a Hospital Out of Hours Practitioner, you will play a vital role in ensuring effective safe clinical care is delivered outside of normal working hours within Kings Mill Hospital.

Key Responsibilities:

• Providing strong clinical leadership within a multi-professional team.Offering advice, support, guidance, and education to nursing and Junior medical staff.
• Being a role model and expert practitioner.
• Responding to critical issues, Acute response and Cardiac Arrest calls as part of the Hospital Out of Hours team.
• Ensuring prompt support and effective clinical assessment/treatment.
• Developing advanced assessment skills and knowledge.
• Expanding professional practice in line with nursing professional codes.
• Undertaking procedures like cannulations, venepuncture, ABGs, catheterisation, and 12 lead ECG recordings.
• Prioritising workloads with the aid of Nerve Centre.
• Undertake audits, and support improvement projects

Join our dedicated team at King's Mill Hospital and help us maintain the highest standards of care 'Out of Hours'! If you're ready to make a difference, apply now and be a part of a dynamic healthcare environment.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Good communication skills with clear written and oral skills

Qualifications

• 1st Level Registered Nurse
• Degree in Nursing or equivalent clinical professional qualification
• Registered clinical professional
• Qualification in teaching and assessing or equivalent
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Working towards Masters qualification or equivalent
• APACs or equivalent consultation and assessment course or working towards it
• Non-medical prescribing course, or working towards it

Further Training

• Evidence of personal and professional development in clinical practice/ management
• Advanced Life Support
• Relevant teaching and assessing qualification
• Experience of working towards Care Quality Commission and NHS Resolution standards
• Advance life support
• Relevant teaching and assessing qualification
• Coronary Care Course

Experience

• Significant post registration experience, with experience in a senior position within the speciality
• Experience of operating and communicating effectively with clinicians and Multi - disciplinary
• Experience of initiating, conducting and evaluating risk assessments and investigations
• Experience of leading and managing staff

Contractual Requirements

• Ability to work flexibly
• Professional Registration (e.g. NMC, HCPC)
• Work flexibly to meet the demands of the service

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.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum pro rata