Intermediate Care Nurse

Intermediate Care Nurse

The closing date is 30 July 2026

Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your skills and would like to try working in an Intermediate Care Team? We have an exciting opportunity for someone who is keen to broaden their experience and be part of a team which is at the forefront of developments in the NHS.

We are looking for a Nurse to join the Bournemouth and Christchurch Intermediate Care team (CBIC) who is comfortable working in a generic capacity completing core assessments but who can also provide specialist Nursing treatments. We are a team made of Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapists, Nurses, Assistant Practitioners, Community Rehabilitation Assistants. We are able to offer flexible options including compressed working days within our 8am-8pm service over 7 days per week.

The team works to prevent avoidable hospital admissions, enable earlier hospital discharges and rehabilitate a wide variety of conditions. The team is integral to the Dorset Healthcare Frailty Hospital at Home service and the successful candidate will be working within this service regularly as part of their remit. The caseloads comprise a wide variety of medical problems including orthopaedic, cardiac, neurology, respiratory and multi pathology.

Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful.

To provide leadership and work within the Bournemouth and Christchurch locality, through provision of a high standard Nursing assessments, and core assessment details of other multidisciplinary skills.

Develop specialist care and/or rehabilitation programme, to promote and sustain independence/well-being for the individual or carer in the relevant setting, which may be a community, residential or health care environment.

To undertake assessment and development of Nursing/Rehabilitation/care programmes for adults, many of whom have complex medical and social needs with the aim of improving independence, function and quality of life.

To contribute towards the development of individual teams and Nursing within Intermediate Care, through devising and implementing service change and to audit and evaluate both Nursing and multi-disciplinary practice. Monitor standards of practice.

Support the role of the Team Leader, deputising in his/her absence.

To promote admission avoidance through close agency working.

You will be required to work regular weekends on a rotational basis.

Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of.

This is a fixed term role and for those with current NHS service, the role will be offered on a secondment basis only. Please obtain permission to be released on a secondment before submitting an application.

• Registered practitioner to degree/diploma level supplemented by post registration diploma level specialist training and/or short courses or demonstrable extensive experience in the relevant specialty
• Membership of the relevant Professional Body
• Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
• Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role

• Experience at Practitioner Band 5 level
• Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and therapeutic interventions in area of specialism
• Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention.
• Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
• Experience of managing change
• Recent previous experience within a comparable role

• Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff
• Experience of devising and delivering training

• Able to effectively manage available resources in the pursuit of quality service provision ensuring a safe environment

• Able to analyse data and produce reports using Microsoft Excel and Word
• Experience of…