Staff Nurse - Hospital at Home - OPAT
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 30
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 13/09/2026
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 is an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Nurse to join the acute out-patient parental antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) service as part of UHD's Hospital at Home/Virtual Ward Team. The role involves providing care to general medical patients, administering intravenous antimicrobials, and performing patient observations and assessments, potentially in patients' homes. The successful candidate will work flexibly between acute sites and contribute to the development and management of the service. A valid driving license and access to a vehicle are necessary.
Essential criteria
- Advanced Diploma/ Degree in adult health nursing studies
- NMC registration
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification
- Ability to demonstrate fundamental nursing knowledge and practice in the care of the patient
- Demonstrate understanding of own role and professional expectations and accountability in practice in line with NMC Code
- Awareness of role in relation to patient experience, quality and safety agenda's that support Governance Frameworks
- Other requirements specific to the role
- Valid UK driving license
- Demonstrable clinical experience.
- Experience of caring for patients
- a variety of experience within differing specialities including medicine
- Technical skills
- IT skills
- Demonstrable ability in management of vital signs monitoring and escalation of the deteriorating patient.
- Non-IV medication administration
- IV medication administration
- Venepuncture and cannulation
- ECG recording
- Male Catheterisation
- Awareness of audit in practice
- CVAD and PICC lines
- Administration of IV Blood products
- Interpersonal skills
- Effective communication in all forms. Written, oral, IT
- Ability to communicate sensitive and complex information to patients and carers
- Ability to work unsupervised and on own initiative.
- Able to integrate and work within the MDT
- Time management skills
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Leadership and management experience
- Advanced Diploma/ Degree in adult health nursing studies
- NMC registration
- Teaching qualification
- Ability to demonstrate fundamental nursing knowledge and practice in the care of the patient
- Demonstrate understanding of own role and professional expectations and accountability in practice in line with NMC Code
- Awareness of role in relation to patient experience, quality and safety agenda's that support Governance Frameworks
- Other requirements specific to the role
- Valid UK driving license
- Demonstrable clinical experience.
- Experience of caring for patients
- a variety of experience within differing specialities including medicine
- Technical skills
- IT skills
- Demonstrable ability in management of vital signs monitoring and escalation of the deteriorating patient.
- Non-IV medication administration
- IV medication administration
- Venepuncture and cannulation
- ECG recording
- Male Catheterisation
- Awareness of audit in practice
- CVAD and PICC lines
- Administration of IV Blood products
- Interpersonal skills
- Effective communication in all forms. Written, oral, IT
- Ability to communicate sensitive and complex information to patients and carers
- Ability to work unsupervised and on own initiative.
- Able to integrate and work within the MDT
- Time management skills
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Leadership and management experience
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Staff Nurse - Hospital at Home - OPAT
The closing date is 13 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 5 Nurses to join the acute out-patient parental antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) service as part of UHD's Hospital at Home/Virtual Ward Team. This team will also be providing care to general medical patients in the future with the development of new patient pathways being explored.
The post requires flexible working between the acute sites and the service hopes to develop in the future to provide care in patients' homes to administer intravenous antimicrobials and perform patient observations and assessments. Therefore avalid driving license and access to a vehicle is necessary to fulfil this role.
Providing a high-quality service that is patient-centred is important to us; the successful candidate will be a highly motivated and enthusiastic nurse with a flexible, dynamic approach to patient care.
The role requires an active UK NMC Registration. Unfortunately we are not able to take any pre-NMC registered nurses in this role.
Base Location: Poole Hospital but cross site working will be required. OPAT run a clinic at Bournemouth Hospital once weekly.
Hours: OPAT have 30 hours available. Unfortunately we cannot offer any more than this. We work 7.5 hour shifts.
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