About this role
Job summary
Join Our Community Urgent Response & Hospital@Home Team!
Are you passionate about delivering high-quality care in a fast-paced, patient-focused environment? We're looking for a dynamic clinician to join our Community Urgent Response and Hospital@Home service.
In this role, you'll work as a key member of our multi-disciplinary team, helping to provide timely, responsive care to patients in their own homes and community settings. You'll play a vital part in preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting safe, effective early discharges.
When the Clinical Lead is absent, you will step forward to provide both clinical and managerial leadership--guiding colleagues, ensuring smooth service delivery, and maintaining the highest standards of safety and quality within available resources.
If you're motivated, adaptable, and ready to make a real impact on patient care, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will take the lead in delivering advanced clinical assessments, offering expert clinical advice and demonstrating a high level of autonomous decision-making. You will confidently formulate clinical diagnoses and initiate appropriate treatment plans, ensuring patients receive timely, effective, and safe care.
Working collaboratively with a wide range of health and social care professionals, you will help ensure seamless pathways of care. This includes liaising with specialist teams, coordinating referrals, and contributing to MDT discussions to support the best possible outcomes for patients.
You will uphold the highest professional standards, maintaining full compliance with national and local guidelines, Trust policies, and professional codes of practice. You will work strictly within your scope of practice and competencies, promoting safe and accountable clinical practice at all times.
In addition to your clinical responsibilities, you will play a key role in supporting the development of the wider multi-professional workforce. This will include contributing to both formal and informal teaching, sharing your expertise, and helping to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement across the service.
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.
Learn more about us in our Candidate Information Pack
Job description Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Qualifications & Professional Registration Essential
Masters in Advanced Practice Registered Nurse with current NMC registration (Part 1 Adult/General Level 1 or 2) Paramedic or AHP with current HCPC registration Non-Medical Prescriber v300
Desirable
Evidence of completing a leadership course/module
Knowledge, Training & Experience Essential
Significant experience within specialty at a senior level Significant post registration experience Experience of people management Can demonstrate leadership skills Evidence or involvement in test of changes or QI projects Evidence of teaching or mentorship Evidence of CPD Effective communicator able to communicate complex and highly sensitive information
Desirable
Clinical experience in the community or primary care
Skills & Abilities Essential
Demonstrates specialist expertise underpinned by theory acquired through CPD Computer Literacy Demonstrates specialist expertise underpinned by theory acquired through CPD Evidence of involvement in the development of programmes of care, protocols and clinical audit Highly developed effective communication/negotiation skills Ability to travel to different geographical locations across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
Desirable
Full UK driving license with willingness to use own car for work purposes
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Address Rochdale Infirmary
Whitehall Street
Rochdale
OL12 0NB
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)