Registered Nurse - Frailty Virtual Ward

NHS; Highweek; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is looking for dedicated Band 5 Rotational Nurses to join their team in Highweek, England. You will provide holistic care for older adults across a virtual ward and same day emergency care unit. Responsibilities include planning and evaluating patient care, mentoring junior staff, and maintaining a safe clinical environment. Qualifications include being a qualified registered nurse with relevant training and experience in complex patient communication.

Qualifications

• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience in communicating complex information to patients.
• Experience in COPD or Heart Failure.

Responsibilities

• Plan, implement, and evaluate individualised patient care.
• Support and guide junior colleagues.
• Maintain a safe and supportive clinical environment.

Skills

Communication

Compassionate care

Team collaboration

Education

Qualified Registered Nurse

Palliative Care Course

Diabetes course

Job description

Registered Nurse – Frailty Virtual Ward

The closing date is 16 November 2025

We are looking for dedicated Band 5 Rotational Nurses to join our team, working across our new Healthy Ageing (Frailty) Hub with positions available on our virtual ward and Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) unit on Teign Ward at Newton Abbot Hospital.

Our wards provide compassionate care primarily for older adults, and you will play a key role as part of our multidisciplinary team.

As a Band 5 Nurse, you will provide holistic care from assessment through to discharge, ensuring that each patient receives the highest standard of treatment and support.

• Full or Part time hours in SDEC
• Part time hours on the Virtual Ward

You will be considered for all contract types unless specified otherwise in your supporting statement.

Browse our interactive booklet to explore our staff benefits!

Main duties of the job

Plan, implement, and evaluate individualised patient care.

Support, mentor, and guide junior colleagues and the wider team.

Maintain a safe and supportive clinical environment for patients, carers, visitors, and staff.

Uphold Trust values and demonstrate expected professional behaviours at all times.

Join us and make a difference in the lives of our patients while developing your nursing skills across two dynamic care settings.

About us

A new model of care is being introduced for people identified as living with frailty.

This model will be based out of a Healthy Ageing Hub at Newton Abbot Hospital and will see most patients triaged through a dedicated telephone frailty co‑ordination function and streamed to the most appropriate part of the service for their needs.

Where possible this will be maintained at home or in a community setting e.g. intermediate care bed (IC) supported by Urgent Community Response (UCR) teams and/or the Frailty Virtual Ward team where they will receive acute care in the community and appropriate “wraparound” services to support them and their family/carers.

A Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) and ambulatory care function will be provided at Newton Abbot that patients can be streamed to as an alternative to attending Torbay Hospital, but also for patients being managed within the virtual ward requiring rapid diagnostics and a consultant opinion.

For patients that cannot be managed at home or in intermediate care there will be access to beds at Newton Abbot Hospital and the hub team will then work proactively to discharge patients as swiftly as possible to care closer to home.

The hub will be a collaboration between existing UCR teams, the Frailty Virtual Ward team, Healthcare of Older People team and the Newton Abbot ward MDT. The staff within these teams include GP's, Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP's) and trainee ACP's, therapists, nurses, consultants and a consultant nurse.

Job responsibilities

The NHS England ambition for Frailty Virtual Wards is to provide care closer to home to patients who would otherwise be admitted into hospital is gaining momentum in Devon.

Key responsibilities

Value everyone as an individual and actively support their right to have their voice heard in decisions about how their needs are met.

Value differences and individuality, showing respect to all.

Respond with humanity and kindness to every person by listening attentively and showing respect in all conversations.

Respect each person's wishes while providing nursing care within their own home.

Provide the highest quality of care by listening to and acting on feedback.

Take personal responsibility for improving services by implementing change positively and contributing constructively and flexibly to multidisciplinary team (MDT) discussions.

Work in partnership to achieve the best possible outcomes for our patients and community.

Help and support colleagues to work effectively together toward shared goals and objectives.

Act as a role model, valuing everyone's opinions and experiences.

Recognise, appreciate, and value the contributions of others and the roles they play in a patient's life.

Strive to provide excellent, innovative services that enable people to live their lives to the fullest.

Encourage and support individuals to improve their own health and wellbeing at every opportunity.

Person Specification

Qualifications and training

• Qualified Registered Nurse; Evidence of continuing professional development
• Proven relevant experience in communicating complex information to patients, carers, and health and social care staff
• Palliative Care Course, Bladder and Bowel training – including catheterisation
• Experience of continuing health care assessments
• Experience of COPD or Heart Failure
• Understands clinical supervision and able to demonstrate relevance to practice
• Diabetes course

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.

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust