Job summary
- Main area
- Urgent Community Response Team
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 362-A-25-7363480
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Regent House
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Nurse Practitioner (Urgent Community Response and Virtual Ward)
Band 6
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Nurse Practitioner to join us in the Urgent Community Response/Virtual Ward Team.
We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic practitioner to support the delivery of the 2 hour Urgent Community Response and Virtual Ward mandates to improve out of hospital care and support the management of patients in their own home.
The team provides urgent care to people in their homes which helps to avoid hospital admissions and enable people to live independently for longer. The team enables older people and adults with complex health needs who urgently need care, to get fast access to a range of health and social care professionals within two hours.
It is an exciting time to join us as we expand the Virtual Ward/Hospital at Home service.
Virtual wards provide hospital level care and remote monitoring in patients homes allowing them to stay at home where they are most comfortable.
There is emerging evidence to show that patients have better outcomes when treated at home, rather than being treated in hospital.
The post will work alongside a multidisciplinary team consisting of GP's, ACP's Senior Nurses, Therapists and Health Care Assistants utilising digital technology.
Main duties of the job
The role of the Nurse Practitioner will be to assesses, plan, implement and review patients in their own home using research and evidence based knowledge to underpin practice and support avoiding a hospital admission.
Monitor and improve standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence based practice, learning and development and the provision of skilled clinical leadership
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Benefits we offer to you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Assess patients within a Crisis situation and offer appropriate nursing assessment intervention, and review to meet their needs using advanced clinical assessment skills
• Assesses, plan, implement and reviews routine through to complex nursing care plans using research and evidence based knowledge to underpin practice and which support avoiding a hospital admission.
• To supervise, lead, inform and delegate staff as appropriate to the needs of the service by utilising skills and resources effectively as directed by the Urgent Community Response team leader.
• To be an expert resource within the team regarding all aspects of nursing care.
• Demonstrates a high level of intuitive and creative problem solving skills to facilitate patient centred care; rationalising information to create patient concordance by using a high level of communication/negotiation skills to affect the outcome.
• Participates in the Performance and Development Review process within the team and undertakes review of junior staff under supervision of the manager
• To participate in the investigation of complaints and safeguarding concerning nursing services in accordance with the level of experience and encourage comments and suggestions on improving the quality of the service.
Participate and initiate Quality Improvement initiatives
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
Person specification
education and training
Essential criteria
- 1st level registered nurse
- degree qual or experience to demonstrate level of working
- prescribing qual/or ability to work towards and advanced clinical skills qual or equivalent or ability to work towards
- teaching mentoring qual
Desirable criteria
- urgent care/ED experience or additional qual
- CSP or equivalent
knolwledge
Essential criteria
- broad range of specialist knowledge of medical conditions and treatments
- demonstrates leadership development
- knowledge of relevant Government legislation and health economy pressures
- evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- knowlwdge of Trust policies and procedures
experience
Essential criteria
- experience of managing a team/day to day workload
- evidence of managing change
- evidence of autonomous practice
- experience of responding to sudden and unplanned changes in medical conditions
Desirable criteria
- community experience/rcrisis response
- HR management experience
- experience of patients with LTC
- experience of MDT working
skills and abilites
Essential criteria
- demonstrates excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- able to work under pressure
- able to keep accurate and legible recorda
- demonstrate collaborative working and understand team dynamics
- effective written and oral communication
- evidence of dealing with complex clinical situations (hosp or community)
- problem solving and analytical
- evidence of planning and organisation skills re staff resources
- clinical expertise in own field
- familiar with standard comp programmes
work related circumstances
Essential criteria
- OH clearance/essential car driver/DBS clearance
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Clayton
- Job title
- Urgent Community Response Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 204 4644
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