Job summary
The Hospital at Home Frailty Virtual Ward provides acute treatment and monitoring in patients' homes to prevent hospital admissions and deterioration. It also delivers Urgent Community Response, offering rapid assessment and treatment for frail or complex patients.
This is a Band 5-6 developmental post with a bespoke training and competency programme designed to support progression from Band 5 to Band 6. The post holder will follow a structured development plan with clearly defined competencies, learning objectives, and milestones. They will be supported by an assigned mentor and practice supervisor, enabling them to develop the clinical knowledge, skills, and confidence required to work autonomously within the Hospital at Home Virtual Ward.
The post holder will provide holistic assessment to support management in the community through face-to-face assessments.
- Supporting admission avoidance by delivering treatment and care planning after an initial assessment by senior team members.
- Collaborating with the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) to provide person-centred care.
- Delivering interventions at home to include but not limited to holistic frailty reviews placing the person at the centre of care, re-assessing and monitoring treatment plans, point of care testing, IV fluids, IV antibiotics, ECGs.
- Delegating tasks and supervising junior staff.
- Working on the Falls Car, alongside SCAS, to assist uninjured fallers and ensure safe recovery at home with a full holistic and functional review.
Main duties of the job
- Work within professional codes and maintain compliance with regulatory standards.
- Demonstrate flexibility in a dynamic environment and promote evidence-based practice.
- Provide holistic assessments and patient-centred care without direct supervision, using critical thinking and recognising limitations.
- Deliver interventions such as IV therapy, ECGs, and care planning for acute and chronic conditions, collaborating with senior clinicians and the MDT.
- Manage caseloads, ensure accurate record-keeping, and maintain confidentiality.
- Support self-care, supervise junior staff, and act as a role model for person-centred practice.
- Participate in team meetings, performance reviews, and service improvement initiatives.
- Ensure safe clinical practice within health and safety guidelines.
- Delegate tasks effectively, advocate for patients, and contribute to compliance with CQC and contractual standards.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate professional qualification e.g. RGN or Paramedic
- Professional UK registration e.g. NMC / HCPC
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD) clearly recorded for professional profile
Desirable
- Specialised clinical skills across the relevant speciality.
- Experience of working in the community.
- The ability to work at problems from a unique or different angle.
- Evidence of ability to perform multidisciplinary tasks.
- Teaching and Assessing qualification or equivalent/mentorship qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working with those living with frailty or those with exacerbation of long-term conditions
- Experience of teaching in clinical practice
- Experience of staff supervision and mentorship
- To demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust values
- Organisational and ongoing planning skills including own workload and of others in an unpredictable environment
- Willingness to work across multidisciplinary boundaries
- Excellent communication skills including to communicate complex, sensitive, or confidential information in an appropriate manner; to liaise effectively; to understand and disseminate multifaceted information
- Understanding of effective clinical governance including implications, quality, and audit
- Should be willing to work flexible hours and across all H@H VW teams
- Full driving license and access to a car
- Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post which will include travel to other areas of the trust for training and home visits to patients place of residence
Desirable
- Evidence of implementing a change to promote good practice
- Involvement in project team for developing and implementing departmental business plans and/or organisation wide developments.
- Highly specialised clinical skills across the relevant speciality
- Confidence in using, manipulating, and analysing data
- Evidence of ability to perform multidisciplinary tasks.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate professional qualification e.g. RGN or Paramedic
- Professional UK registration e.g. NMC / HCPC
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD) clearly recorded for professional profile
Desirable
- Specialised clinical skills across the relevant speciality.
- Experience of working in the community.
- The ability to work at problems from a unique or different angle.
- Evidence of ability to perform multidisciplinary tasks.
- Teaching and Assessing qualification or equivalent/mentorship qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working with those living with frailty or those with exacerbation of long-term conditions
- Experience of teaching in clinical practice
- Experience of staff supervision and mentorship
- To demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust values
- Organisational and ongoing planning skills including own workload and of others in an unpredictable environment
- Willingness to work across multidisciplinary boundaries
- Excellent communication skills including to communicate complex, sensitive, or confidential information in an appropriate manner; to liaise effectively; to understand and disseminate multifaceted information
- Understanding of effective clinical governance including implications, quality, and audit
- Should be willing to work flexible hours and across all H@H VW teams
- Full driving license and access to a car
- Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post which will include travel to other areas of the trust for training and home visits to patients place of residence
Desirable
- Evidence of implementing a change to promote good practice
- Involvement in project team for developing and implementing departmental business plans and/or organisation wide developments.
- Highly specialised clinical skills across the relevant speciality
- Confidence in using, manipulating, and analysing data
- Evidence of ability to perform multidisciplinary tasks.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
