Virtual Ward and IV therapy at home Practitioner | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,049 - £37,796 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 January 2026 |
| Location: | Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7684693/214-MED-7684693 |
Summary
Delivering Exceptional, Patient-Centred Care at Home
Join our dedicated SFH@Home team and play a vital role in transforming patient care through our innovative IV Therapy at Home service, incorporating OPAT, MDCU, and Virtual Ward pathways. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference by supporting patients in the comfort of their own homes, ensuring safe, evidence-based, and holistic care.
As part of this dynamic role, you will receive comprehensive training and work within a robust competency framework to develop advanced clinical skills. You’ll gain the knowledge and confidence to adapt to evolving service needs and new care pathways, helping shape the future of Virtual Ward care delivery.
If you’re passionate about improving patient experience, embracing innovation, and growing your expertise, this role offers the perfect platform to thrive.
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9thApril, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Please read the attached full job description and person specification in the additional documents section.
This advert closes on Tuesday 13 Jan 2026
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