[Hiring] Virtual Ward Community Practitioner @Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Role Description

We are seeking an enthusiastic Senior Community Practitioner (Nurses) to join the Nottinghamshire Virtual Ward! We are recruiting one full-time position.

Virtual Wards deliver hospital-level care at home using remote monitoring, digital tools, and multi-disciplinary community support. Our service is part of a system-wide collaborative across Nottinghamshire Healthcare, NUH, Sherwood Forest Hospitals, Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals, and CityCare, ensuring seamless care across acute and community settings.

As a Band 6 Senior Community Practitioner, you will provide:

• Timely assessments
• Person-centred care
• Advanced clinical decision-making in patients’ homes

This role offers opportunities to develop advanced assessment skills, contribute to innovative virtual care models, and play a key part in system transformation.

We welcome applications from nurses passionate about acute community care, digital innovation, and supporting people to recover safely at home.

Qualifications

• Community nursing experience or acute care experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to be adaptable, reliable, resourceful, and approachable
• High levels of personal and clinical credibility
• Full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use

Requirements

• Deliver timely, person-centred assessments and provide high-quality clinical care to patients on the Virtual Ward for up to 14 days
• Work autonomously and within the MDT (including Matrons, Nurses, AHPs, and support staff) to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and support safe early discharge
• Interpret remote monitoring data, undertake face-to-face clinical reviews, identify deterioration, and initiate appropriate interventions or escalation
• Lead and coordinate safe, effective discharge planning and contribute to daily MDT discussions on treatment and risk
• Support junior staff through supervision, role-modelling, and clinical guidance
• Maintain accurate documentation on SystmOne and uphold professional standards, governance, and patient safety
• Work flexibly across respiratory, frailty, and admission avoidance pathways, following lone-worker and dynamic risk assessment procedures

Benefits

• In-house occupational health and staff counselling services
• Dedicated Health and Wellbeing team
• Employee-led staff networks, including EDI groups and Health and Wellbeing Champions network
• Commitment to reducing carbon emissions and enhancing environmental performance