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Job summary

Main area
Medicine
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (The post will involve weekend working. Shifts can be worked as long days or short days.)
Job ref
236-OCO-NM657-25-A
Employer
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Royal Oldham Hospital
Town
Oldham
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/12/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust logo

Hospital at Home Practitioner

Band 6

Job overview

Join our Innovative Hospital at Home Team

We're excited to offer an opportunity for a motivated Nurse, Physiotherapist, or Occupational Therapist to join our forward-thinking Hospital at Home (H@H) service. This hybrid role spans Acute, Community, and Virtual care settings, allowing you to apply your skills across diverse settings.

Why Join Us?

  • Be part of a pioneering team shaping the future of care delivery
  • Access development opportunities, including non-medical prescribing and clinical examination modules
  • Enjoy flexible working patterns—choose between 3 long shifts or shorter shifts over 4–5 days
  • Contribute to a 7-day service in a dynamic, supportive environment

If you're ready to take the next step in your career and make a meaningful impact, we’d love to hear from you.

 

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

  • Identify suitable patients in the acute setting using current pathways, supporting early supported discharge through the Hospital at Home service
  • Conduct community assessments as needed and collaborate with multidisciplinary team (MDT) members to develop personalised care plans
  • Monitor patients remotely in accordance with standard operating procedures, ensuring safe and effective virtual care
  • Apply evidence-based clinical skills and utilise digital technology to deliver high-quality care in patients' own homes
  • Manage your patient caseload effectively, ensuring smooth handovers of care and maintaining clear, timely communication
  • Develop and sustain seamless referral pathways to other agencies and specialist teams, fostering strong MDT collaboration
  • Work within your scope of practice and clinical competencies, adhering to professional policies, national standards, and Trust procedures
  • Contribute to ongoing service development and quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient care

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.  

Learn more about us in our Candidate Information Pack (opens in existing window)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk   

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree / diploma in nursing studies/ AHP profession
  • Evidence of continuous professional development (CPD)
  • Evidence of involvement in teaching
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of mentorship qualification
  • Evidence of speciality qualification post grad
  • Non-medical prescribing

Professional Registration

Essential criteria
  • NMC registration or AHP registration

Knowledge, Training & Experience

Essential criteria
  • Has substantial post registration experience (Minimum 3 years qualified.)
  • Experience in one or more of the current H@H pathways
  • Experience of managing complex patients including assessment, planning and implementation of care
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience of audit and outcomes
  • Clinical experience in primary/community care
  • Managerial experience

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • IT Skills
  • Good communication skills
  • Ability to coordinate your workload and supervise members of the team, ensuring high quality, safe and effective patient care
  • Ability to travel to different geographical locations across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
Desirable criteria
  • Full UK driving license with willingness to use own car for work purposes

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardFair Train work experience quality standard - gold standardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoWorkplace Wellbeing Charter LogoArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerTime to changeStep into healthGM Good Employment Charter

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.

Documents to download

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Nicola Innes
Job title
Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0161 778 5342
Additional information

Stephanie Walker- Lead Nurse- [email protected]

Lorena Hulme- Team Leader- [email protected]