Hospital & Care At Home (Virtual ward) Autonomous Practitioner

Job summary

Exciting Opportunity - Clinical Lead for Hospital and Care at Home (H&C@H) Team

Are you a passionate healthcare professional ready to lead innovative patient care in the community? We're looking for a dynamic Autonomous Practitioner to join our Hospital and Care at Home (H&C@H) team, working alongside a dedicated multidisciplinary group to deliver exceptional services to NHS patients.

Qualified nurses, Physiotherapists, or Occupational Therapists are encouraged to apply! In the absence of the clinical lead, you'll take on both clinical and managerial leadership, ensuring that safe, high-quality care is delivered within available resources. You will play a key role in creating a caring environment tailored to patient needs, enhancing their experience, and supporting staff to achieve divisional and trust objectives.

As an autonomous practitioner, you'll assess patients' needs using evidence-based clinical skills and innovative digital technologies, caring for patients in their own homes. Your responsibilities will include caseload management, care handovers, and driving service development--providing specialist input whenever required.

There's also exciting opportunities to undertake non-medical prescribing and clinical examination modules, further enhancing your skills and career progression.

Join us and make a real difference in community healthcare delivery.

Main duties of the job

Exciting Opportunity - Autonomous Practitioner for Hospital and Care at Home (H&C@H) Service

We are seeking a skilled healthcare professional to join our H&C@H team as an Autonomous Practitioner. In this role, you'll deliver expert care, assessments, and support within a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment, working confidently within established protocols. You'll manage patient care on the virtual ward, liaising with medical colleagues to assess, adjust treatments, and facilitate timely re-evaluations.

Ensuring seamless care pathways through effective communication, referrals, and collaboration with other agencies and MDT members is essential. You will maintain compliance with professional standards, national guidelines, and trust policies, working within your scope of practice and competencies.

A key part of your role involves contributing to the education and development of team members, sharing your expertise to foster continuous professional growth. Using advanced clinical reasoning, evidence-based practices, and your expert knowledge, you'll provide specialist advice and support for patients and colleagues, ensuring safe, compassionate, and effective care. Join us to bring your advanced skills to revolutionise community healthcare delivery--working independently, drawing on your extensive theoretical and practical experience.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.