Job overview

Are you an experienced Senior Nurse within an acute care setting looking for an opportunity to utilise your proven leadership skills alongside patient clinical assessment and acute care delivery? If so, this unique role is for you.

The Acute Care at Home service is a partnership between the University Hospital of North Midlands (UHNM), University Hospital of Derby and Burton (UHDB), Royal Wolverhampton Trust (RWT) and Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust (MPFT). The successful applicants will join an integrated, collaboratively focused team, employing proactive clinical practice and knowledge, to provide clinical assessment, monitoring and support, as part of our urgent care pathways.

As a Senior Staff Nurse working within the North Staffordshire team,  you will play a key role in supporting hospital admission avoidance and supporting patients to leave hospital sooner than would otherwise be possible. 

To support your professional development, there will be ample opportunities to  enhance your knowledge, leadership and communication skills by contributing to specialty pathway development, SOPs and innovations that will shape the future in line with policy guidance. 

Main duties of the job

As an integral part of the Virtual Ward Team, you will work closely with the Matrons and band 7s holding responsibility for the clinical management of a designated group of patients on the Virtual Ward. Using your physical assessment skills, you will carry out first visit clinical assessments including the development, implementation and evaluation of consultant led programmes of care, always maintaining quality and safety standards.

You will also hold delegated responsibility for the coordination of the day to day running of the ward, working in collaboration with the Band 7 Nurse Practitioner processing new referrals and maintaining oversight of all patients and staff carrying out clinical visits. You will have proven leadership skills and be a professional role model to others, taking an active role in leading on quality improvement innovations and participating in the development of others.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. 

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.