Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (flexible working including bank holidays and weekends)
- Job ref
- 214-MED-7641162
- Employer
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kings Mill Hospital
- Town
- Sutton in Ashfield
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Virtual Ward and IV therapy at home Senior Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.
Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. As such, we particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, or Disabled. We believe that a diverse team better represents the communities we serve and brings a wealth of perspectives and experiences to our work.
Job overview
Deliver Outstanding Care Across SFH@Home Services
Become part of our progressive SFH@Home team, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across OPAT, Virtual Ward pathways, and the Medical Day Case Units at King’s Mill Hospital and Newark. This role offers the chance to make a real difference by supporting patients through innovative care models designed to improve outcomes and experience.
As a key member of the team, you will undertake comprehensive training and competency frameworks to develop advanced knowledge and skills across all services. You will also play a pivotal role in supervising and coordinating Band 5 nurses and Clinical Support Workers, ensuring excellence in care delivery.
Flexibility and adaptability are essential, as you will respond to the changing needs of patients across all three services and embrace new pathways as they are introduced. This is an exciting opportunity to lead, innovate, and grow within a forward-thinking service.
Main duties of the job
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Person specification
Training
Essential criteria
- Current level one NMC registration
- Diploma or degree in health/nursing related studies.
- Relevant post-basic study e.g., teaching and assessing qualification
- Completion of the IV Package
Desirable criteria
- Possession of a mentoring course.
- Continuing professional development/reflective profile
- Formal leadership and management training.
- Research training/experience.
Further Training
Desirable criteria
- Venepuncture and Cannulation
- ANTT
- CVAD
- Line insertion
- AIMS
- Oxygen management
- Lone Working
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience within working in an acute Trust/community setting
- Supervision of non-registered staff, pre-registration and post basic students
- Evidence of ability to mentor
- Ability to manage the clinical area or ward efficiently and effectively
- Ability to convey sensitive information in an empathetic manner to patients, relatives/carers and staff
- An understanding of how IV therapy at home and virtual ward operates
- Criminal Records Bureau clearance in accordance with Trust policy
- Awareness of personal strengths and weaknesses.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate an involvement in link nurse, or project work
- Audit or research within the clinical area
- Providing staff feedback on their individual performance and use of the knowledge and skills framework
Communication
Essential criteria
- Develop and maintain constructive working relationships
- Able to communicate with service users in a clear and concise manner
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Maintain sensitivity and empathy in communication with patients/clients
- Tact discretion and persuasive skills required
- Works as part of a team and helps others when implementing decisions
- Produce timely and accurate written/electronic records and documents
- Demonstrate basic IT skills.
- Recognition of own level of competence and is able to communicate these to appropriate staff
- Can minimise interpersonal conflict and barriers to communication
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of negotiation and influencing skills
- Demonstrate evidence of providing formal teaching sessions
- Demonstration of team working and ability to work within a team
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate an ability to assess, plan, deliver, prioritise and evaluate patient care
- Ability to identify own learning needs
- Demonstrate an understanding of the deputy sister/charge nurse role
- Able to contribute to the development of implementation and monitoring of local objectives and action plans
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate leadership skills and ability to effectively lead a team
- Demonstrate an ability to prioritise workload of self and others
- Demonstrate an ability to supervise and support others
- Demonstrate effective time management skills
- Demonstrate effective resource management.
Planning and Organisation Skills
Essential criteria
- Time management, planning and organisation required to prioritise daily workload.
- Able to adjust prioritises as appropriate
- Planning and co-ordinating patient reviews and referrals
- Use own initiative to ensure a satisfactory outcome with regard to problems
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate leadership skills and the ability lead a team.
- Demonstrate an ability to prioritise workload of self and others
- Demonstrate an ability to supervise and support others
- Demonstrate effective time management skills
- Demonstrate effective resource management
- Planning and organisation of IV therapy at home and virtual ward diaries, IT systems, co-ordinating patient reviews and referrals
Physical Skills
Essential criteria
- Physically able to perform the full range of nursing duties
- Dexterity and accuracy in undertaking clinical skills, use of equipment and documentation.
- Competent and capable of using medical equipment
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of moving and handling training.
Other Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria
- Holds a full driving licence, is able to drive with access to a car for work purposes and is insured for business use
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s CARE behavioural standards
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Karen Shacklock
- Job title
- Department Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01623 622515
- Additional information
ext 4729
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