Registered Nurse Hospital at Home

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Bodmin; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Cornwall is seeking an autonomous practitioner to assess and treat patients with complex health and social care needs, ensuring holistic, high‑quality care at home. You will perform physical exams, make diagnoses, and plan care for deterioration or end-of-life needs.

The role includes rotational work in the Telephone response service for Palliative and End of life Care, supporting admission avoidance and timely discharge with a whole-systems approach.

Qualifications

• Current registration with the NMC and ongoing professional development.
• Experience in holistic nursing care for patients at home or in community settings.
• Ability to work autonomously within a team and handle complex cases.

Responsibilities

• Assess and treat patients with complex health and social care needs at home.
• Coordinate care as the keyworker for virtual ward/virtual care and support admission avoidance.
• Provide safe, evidence-based nursing care and contribute to planning at end of life where appropriate.

Skills

Excellent communication

IT skills

Flexibility

Continual professional development

Education

NMC registration

Postgraduate certificate in Long Term Conditions or working towards

Job description

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

Strategic Themes

Great Care

• Care based on what matters to people.
• Care provided at home or close to home.
• Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
• Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

Great Organisation

• Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
• Technology enabled care.
• Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
• Safe, efficient, effective and productive.

Great People

• A place people love to work and feel valued.
• Living our values with staff (all voices count).
• Attract, grow and develop talent.
• Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.

Great Partner

• Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
• Joined-up community services.
• Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
• Reduce our impact on the environment.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Job overview

As an autonomous practitioner the post holder will be responsible for the assessment and treatment of patients with complex health and social care needs. Ensuring provision of a holistic nursing assessment and high quality, safe, evidence-based care to patients and carers with the aim of maintaining patients in their own homes. This includes physical examination and detailed history taking, diagnosis of deterioration in
pre-existing conditions and treatment planning. Your experience and skills should enable you to recognise that a person is deteriorating and advanced care planning might be appropriate and/or that the person is coming into the last days of life and that dying phased care is appropriate.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will rotationally work within the Telephone response service for Palliative and End of life Care providing a 24/7 working closely with admission avoidance services to ensure patients safety is maintained.

The post holder will be the keyworker for patients within the virtual ward/virtual care. The post holder will work in this adaptable and evolving role, focusing on safe, effective admission avoidance, and supporting timely discharge from acute hospitals, with a
whole systems approach. The post holder will co-ordinate care and strive to reduce the risk of acute re-admissions by identifying risks, implementing management plans, and collaborating with the whole community resource to facilitate ongoing care management

Working for our organisation

We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 5,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 10 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.

Skills and Aptitude

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• IT skills to include use of Word, Excel, emails and internet access.

Knowledge and Abilitities

• Flexibility and adaptability to meet the demands of the job
• Evidence of continuing education and professional development

Education/Qualifications

• Current professional Registration - NMC
• Post graduate certificate in Long Term Conditions or working towards
• The ability to provide skilled, evidence-based nursing care to a wide range of patients
• The ability to work without direct supervision, yet as part of a team

Personal Qualities

• Ability to cope in stressful and distressing situations
• Able to work under pressure

At Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust we are proud to prioritise the development of our people. To support this, the following opportunities are available:

• Career conversations and individual development plans for succession planning and talent management
• Protected CPD time for registered staff
• Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
• Leadership and Management development programmes
• Coaching and mentoring opportunities
• A full clinical induction programme for operational skills
• Access to a care certificate programme for our band 1-4 clinical staff
• A bespoke and robust preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff

Being part of a successful NHS Foundation Trust brings a portfolio of rewards and benefits for our staff. These include:

• Suite of health and wellbeing initiatives to support our colleagues physical and mental health
• Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff
• Free DBS checks where required
• Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• The Trust reimburses all application costs for staff eligible to apply for EU settlement status.

If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process you will be contacted via TRAC.jobs email regarding interview details.

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust welcomes and values individuals with lived experience of mental or physical ill health joining our workforce. We aspire to have a culture that develops, promotes and supports lived experience roles - throughout the organisation.

If you are successful, you agree to Occupational Health accessing your health records from your current or previous employer to check the status of your inoculations and screening tests. Appointments are subject to full three year satisfactory references therefore please ensure you include correct contact details for your nominated referees including email addresses.

Any general recruitment queries, please contact our recruitment team on 01208 834644

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

The Health Jobs UK website has jobs from numerous employers, within health and care across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute medical, surgical and specialist services to a population of around 500,000 which can increase significantly during the busy holiday periods.