Hospital at Home (UCR) Staff Nurse - Band 5 (Bank)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Bank
- Pattern
- Flexible working
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 10/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Staff Nurse in the Hospital at Home (UCR) service in Bromley, operating 7 days a week from 8am to 8pm. The service aims to prevent acute hospital admissions and support early discharge by providing diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring in patients' homes. The nurse will manage a caseload, perform nursing procedures, and work within a multidisciplinary team to deliver patient-centred care.
Key responsibilities
- Undertake a focussed person-centred approach, ensuring quality standard and delivery of care for patients.
- Develop safe clinical skills in community setting to proactively manage very high intensity users of health and social care services.
- Undertake nursing procedures such as catheterisation, monitoring vital signs, phlebotomy, IV therapy, and cannulation in the patient's home.
- Proactively monitor and manage a patient caseload with sound clinical autonomous decisions about patient care.
- Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team to support safe, efficient care delivery closer to patients' homes.
- Empower patients and their families through appropriate support and education.
Essential criteria
- Diploma/Degree Adult Nursing
- NMC registration
- Actively involved in clinical supervision
- Experience of working in/with a multi-disciplinary team
- Acute or relevant nursing experience
- Knowledge of Hospital at home and Virtual wards
- To have organisational skills such as delegation, prioritisation and negotiation.
- Sound knowledge and understanding of Clinical Governance.
- Car driver with clean current UK licence and access to a vehicle to use for work
- Competent to administer intravenous drugs
- Cannulation and phlebotomy skills.
- Qualified & competent to carry out male/female including suprapubic catheterisation
- Knowledge of the Management of patients with Heart failure with fluid overload
- UK Lisc Car driver with access to a vehicle to use for work
Desirable criteria
- Degree/Masters
- Admission avoidance experience
- Working in an Intermediate Care setting.
- Diagnostics, ECG, Bladder scanning, etc
- Experience of clinical audit.
- Report writing skills
- Understanding of Research & Development.
- An understanding of Change Management.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £36,943 – £44,900 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Bromley Healthcare CIC
Hospital at Home (UCR) Staff Nurse - Band 5 (Bank)
The closing date is 10 September 2026
Job summary
Urgent Community Response Bromley
Hospital at Home Staff Nurse - Band 5 (Bank)
£36,943 - £44,900 Inclusive of HCAS per annum pro rota
Bank shifts - adhoc - 8-8pm
Bromley Hospital at Home is an integrated service delivered through Bromley Healthcare and One Bromley partners for avoiding acute hospital attendances and admissions while also supporting patients' early discharge from acute hospital beds.
The service provides diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of patients in their usual place of residence using both face to face and virtual care in the London Borough of Bromley. Operating 7 days per week 8am to 8pm. Referrals are accepted to the service, from the Acute Trust - Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) & Bromley Healthcare Urgent Community Response - Rapid Response Team.
One Bromley, the place-based partnership of health, care and third sector organisations in Bromley has significant ambitions for the service.
Joining this service now provides the unique opportunity to help shape and develop the service both as it starts to operate at scale and as it continuously develops over the coming years.
Proposed interview date week commencing 14th September 2026.
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