Care Transfer Hub Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share
- Posted
- 26/08/2026
- Closes
- 09/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role involves navigating and coordinating patient flow across Joined Up Care Derbyshire services, managing referrals through the Care Transfer Hub. The practitioner will assess individual needs, triage referrals, and use professional judgment to coordinate support. The post is crucial for safe and appropriate transfers between care settings, ensuring timely onward referrals to community health, social care, or voluntary sector services. It requires clinical triage, multidisciplinary collaboration, and effective communication to prevent hospital discharge delays and maintain continuity of care.
Essential criteria
- Degree/diploma in Physiotherapy/occupational therapy/nursing
- car driver/valid driving licence/access to vehicle
- registration with a professional Body
- Current/recent experience clinical senior Band 5 level
- knowledge of community services
- Experience of working with adults in a variety of settings
- knowledge of dealing with and managing complex situations and ability to make decisions
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of admission and discharge agenda
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries
- Band 6 experience
- Skills and Attributes
- Strong assessment and decision-making skills; ability to work under pressure; excellent communication and IT skills
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Able to work effectively in the team
- Willingness to undergo further training and development as the job develops
- Qualifications/education
- Degree/diploma in Physiotherapy/occupational therapy/nursing
- car driver/valid driving licence/access to vehicle
- registration with a professional Body
- Current/recent experience clinical senior Band 5 level
- knowledge of community services
- Experience of working with adults in a variety of settings
- knowledge of dealing with and managing complex situations and ability to make decisions
- Knowledge of admission and discharge agenda
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries
- Band 6 experience
- Skills and Attributes
- Strong assessment and decision-making skills; ability to work under pressure; excellent communication and IT skills
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Able to work effectively in the team
- Willingness to undergo further training and development as the job develops
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 4d ago · Closes in 11d
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Job summary
The Care Transfer Hub Practitioner is responsible for navigating and coordinating flow across Joined Up Care Derbyshire services by managing referrals through the system Care Transfer Hub.
The post holder will take a lead role in assessing an individual's need, triaging referrals and using professional judgement to navigate and coordinate the support needs.
The role is pivotal in ensuring people are safely and appropriately transferred between care settings.
Working within a multi-agency Care Transfer Hub, the postholder ensures timely and appropriate onward referrals to community health, social care, or voluntary sector services.
This role involves clinical triage, multidisciplinary collaboration, and effective communication to avoid delays in hospital discharge and ensure continuity of care.
There may be the opportunity to work alongside colleagues within the acute hospital setting as part of the role.
THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO CURRENT JUCD EMPLOYEES - PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU WORK FOR ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
NHS Derby & Derbyshire ICB, Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHSFT, University Hospitals Derby and Burton NHSFT, Derbyshire Healthcare NHSFT, Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT, East Midlands Ambulance Service, Derby City social care or Derbyshire County social care (employees of DHU Healthcare will be considered).
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