Hospital at Home Band 6 Nurse | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 PA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 March 2026 |
| Location: | Bedford, MK42 9DJ |
| Company: | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7724419/418-NUR4419-SJ |
Summary
A great opportunity has arisen within our Hospital at Home team for a nurse passionate about delivering high‑quality, patient‑centred care outside the traditional ward setting.
You’ll provide clinical care directly in patients’ homes, rehabilitation units, and residential or nursing facilities, ensuring safe and seamless support. The role includes assessing patients in hospital for discharge readiness, coordinating documentation and equipment, and continuing their care through observations, bloods, and both planned and urgent virtual‑ward reviews.
You’ll contribute to service quality through audits, work closely with senior staff to maintain high standards, and help manage the waiting list by assessing needs and directing patients to the right services.
The post holder will be responsible for assessing patients within the hospital setting to determine their readiness to return to a more appropriate environment, which may include their own home, a rehabilitation facility, or a residential/nursing home. Following assessment, they will coordinate all required documentation and equipment to ensure a safe and timely discharge from acute care.
Once patients are admitted to the Hospital at Home service, the post holder will provide ongoing clinical monitoring, including undertaking observations, blood tests, and managing both planned and urgent reviews as part of the virtual ward model.
They will contribute actively to the service’s audit processes, working alongside the Team Manager and Matron to maintain high standards of care and support continuous improvement.
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job
The Job Description and Person Specification are attached to this job, please review for the full details and responsibilities
1. To be responsible for the assessment of care needs, delivery, implementation and evaluation of
management plans for individual patients using a problem-solving approach and evidence-based
care.
2. To work with colleagues, or independently, to provide the highest possible standard of care for
patients assessed as safe and medically suitable to remain at home or continue care at home.
3. To work with specific groups of patients within agreed pathways in Primary and Secondary Care
and taking responsibility for their ongoing management and safety.
4. To effectively assess identified or referred patients on to the Hospital at Home Service as part of the admission avoidance scheme, and act
on findings as per agreed protocols.
5. To participate in effective and safe discharge planning of all identified inpatients/ outpatients and
to promote smooth transition to the Hospital at Home Team or other community-based services and
teams.
This advert closes on Monday 23 Feb 2026