NHS@Home Nurse or Paramedic in Bristol

Main area Nursing or Paramedic Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Working 11.5hr shifts) Job ref 083-8156408-SL

Employer Sirona care & health CIC Employer type NHS Site John Milton Clinic Town Bristol Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 31/07/2026 23:59

NHS@Home Nurse or Paramedic

NHS AfC: Band 5

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Job overview

We are seeking a Nurse or Paramedic to join our team!

NHS@Home is an innovative service, providing care for people who are acutely unwell in their own homes across Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. It offers an alternative to hospital and helps people return home from hospital more quickly, to.

The service uses a mixture of face-to-face visits & telephone calls, and remote monitoring through digital technology, to help people recover safely in the comfort of their own home.

NHS@Home has pathways, covering a wide range of conditions including frailty, respiratory, heart failure, OPAT, Infection and general surgical recovery. Our team provide a very wide range of acute healthcare treatments within the home, in addition to monitoring health conditions and vital signs for deterioration.

The service is run in partnership between Sirona care & health, North Bristol Trust, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.

Main duties of the job

Your duties will require exemplary clinical, communication, IT and trouble shooting skills to enable you to:

• Provide clinical face to face and virtual monitoring and assessment of patient in the @home service, advising on care and treatment and reporting changes in patient condition as required in line with local protocols and guidance.
• Providing acute care to patients (in their homes) with complex and specialist needs in the community, across Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.
• Working alongside the multidisciplinary team to develop, implement and evaluate care plans.
• Assessing the health and psychosocial needs of the patient within the hospital and community setting.
• Plan and implement treatment and use a wide range of service to meet their needs.
• Utilising a wide range of clinical skills to support the ongoing management of patients in their home environment e.g. Comprehensive Health Assessment, observations, venepuncture, ECG, bladder scanning and wound care.
• Communicating effectively, networking and liaising to ensure high quality responsive, safe, efficient and compassionate care is provided for our patients, carers and families.

Benefits

Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree qualification or equivalent
• NMC Registration
• Willingness to undertake training required for the role

Skills / Experience / Knowledge

• Understanding of clinical governance processes with examples
• Ability to carry out complex health assessments, including: Venepuncture, Observations, Bladder scanning, ECG & wound care
• Ability and evidence to use Microsoft packages including Outlook, MS Teams, Excel and electronic patient records
• Experience & ability to work autonomously
• Experience & ability to understand knowledge base and to elevate if needed
• Evidence of continuous personal/professional development
• Adaptability and Flexibility for effective time management within conflicting priorities
• Experience of training and supporting others
• Experience of digital consultations
• Experience of community care
• Experience of using EMIS
• Patient Assessment & Clinical Reasoning Course or similar

Other

• Full Driving licence
• Use of own car with business insurance and ability to travel regularly across the BNSSG area

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to equality of opportunity and to a diverse workforce.