Adult Hospital At Home Nurse

The post holder is employed by Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and primarily based at North Middlesex University Hospital. As a member of the Adult Hospital @ Home (AH@H) service, you will be a skilled and adaptable nurse, contributing to both the Community Admission Avoidance and Accelerated Discharge pathways. Your ability to make timely, high-quality clinical decisions will directly support patient recovery and wellbeing.

The AH@H service aims to deliver early supported discharge, admission avoidance, and ongoing treatment within patients' own homes, ensuring safe, effective care in the community. This includes reviews of adults experiencing worsening medical or functional conditions in their usual place of residence and works closely with wider community services to prevent clinical deterioration and avoid acute hospital admission., As a Band 6 nurse, you will undertake complex, holistic assessments, deliver evidence-based interventions, and exercise sound clinical judgement within your professional scope.

You will provide high-quality care, advice, and education to patients and carers, promoting independence and optimising quality of life. You will be responsible for visiting patients requiring complex, time-critical assessment and intervention to prevent avoidable admissions and support early discharge. Referrals to the AH@H service may come from Rapid Response, Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC), Accident & Emergency, NMUH wards, Barnet Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, and community sources including GPs, care homes, community nursing teams, and London Ambulance Service (LAS).

You are expected to demonstrate competence in Advanced Physical Assessment skills, and if not already completed, have a commitment to completing training qualification. The role requires the ability to work autonomously, while also drawing on the expertise of colleagues across both primary and secondary care. You will contribute to a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to delivering safe, responsive, and person-centred care in the community.

Royal Free World Class Values The post holder will offer World Class Care to service users, staff, colleagues, clients and patients alike so that everyone at the Royal Free can feel: Welcome all of the time Confident because we are clearly Communicating Respected and cared for Reassured that they are always in safe hands