Virtual Ward Community Practitioner

Main area Nursing Grade Band 6 Contract Secondment: 12 months Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (Service delivery between 8am - 8pm 7 days per week) Job  
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Employer Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site South Notts, Mid Notts and Bassetlaw Town Nottingham Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum (pro rata for part time) Salary period Yearly Closing 16/03/2026 23:59 Interview date 13/04/2026

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We are seeking enthusiastic Senior Community Practitioners (Nurses) to join the Nottinghamshire Virtual Ward on a 12‑month fixed‑term/secondment basis. We are recruiting three posts at 30 hours per week.

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Post 30hrs - August 26-Aug 27

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Post 30hrs - August 26-August 27

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Post 30hrs - Starting ASAP - ending Jan 2027

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 City Care, ensuring seamless care across acute and community settings.

We support pathways including frailty, respiratory and admission avoidance. As a Band 6 Senior Community Practitioner, you will provide timely assessments, person‑centred care and advanced clinical decision‑making in patients’ homes, working both autonomously and within an established MDT.

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.

• 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 Systm One 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.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in‑house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee‑led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health…