Job Overview
Are you passionate about providing high-quality, patient-centred care in a community setting? The West Essex Hospital at Home service is expanding, and we are looking for dynamic, compassionate, and skilled healthcare professionals to join our innovative team.
Hospital at Home is an exciting service that delivers acute-level care in the comfort of a patient’s own home. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will play a vital role in reducing unnecessary hospital admissions, supporting early discharges, and enhancing patient outcomes through personalised care.
Based across West Essex, including Harlow, Epping, and Uttlesford, you’ll work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment that puts patients and families at the heart of everything we do.
What We Offer
- A supportive, forward-thinking team committed to integrated care
- Opportunities for training and career development
- Flexible working patterns and a strong work-life balance
- The chance to truly make a difference in the community
If you're ready to take on a rewarding challenge that blends acute clinical care with the unique opportunities of working in the community, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
- Provide senior clinical and operational oversight to ensure safe, effective, and continuous Hospital at Home service delivery.
- Lead the coordination, triage, and timely admission of referrals, ensuring patients access the most appropriate care pathway.
- Undertake a weekly in-reach rotation at Princess Alexandra Hospital to support early discharge planning, multidisciplinary working, and identification of patients for community pathways under the “Home First” ethos.
- Work with acute, community, and system partners to prevent unnecessary admissions and support coordinated, safe discharges.
- Oversee day-to-day operational issues, escalate as needed, and manage caseload flow across the service.
- Monitor and maintain compliance with staff supervision, appraisals, and mandatory training.
- Lead and participate in clinical audits, reflective practice, and learning from incidents to maintain high standards of care, governance, and continuous improvement.
- Represent and promote the service across partner organisations, contributing to service development, pathway improvement, and NHSE recommendations.
Working for our organisation
Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.
- Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
- Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
- If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
- We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.
Benefits
- 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.
- Excellent pension of up to14.5% of your pensionable pay.
- Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
- £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
- Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.
Work that wraps around your needs
- Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.
- Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.
Important note: please ensure that as part of your application, you include professional references with business contact information covering your last three years of employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.
As a newly appointed employee, you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post; the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.
Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email
[email protected] and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.
The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.
Important Notice: Recently the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 (the Regulations) which amended on 22 July 2021 and come into force on 11 November 2021 that anyone directly employed to work in a Care Home or who are required as part of their role to be deployed to a CQC registered care home are required to have had both their COVID vaccinations, unless they are exempt. This is therefore a requirement of this role and will form part of our pre-employment checks.
Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered ‘suitable alternative employment’ to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
