Lead Nurse - Virtual Ward/Hospital at Home
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and dynamic leader to join Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Virtual Ward / Hospital at Home Manager.
This is a leadership role within an innovative and expanding service that delivers acute-level care to patients in their own homes, supported by digital technology, remote monitoring, and multidisciplinary working.
As the Ward Manager, you will hold overall responsibility for the safe, effective, and compassionate delivery of care across a non-traditional “ward without walls.” You will lead a geographically dispersed workforce, ensuring patients receive care that is equivalent to—or exceeds—that delivered within the hospital setting.
Responsibilities
- Admission avoidance and early discharge pathways
- Delivering care closer to home
- Supporting system flow and reducing pressure on acute services
- Driving innovation and transformation in healthcare delivery
- Provide visible, compassionate leadership to a multidisciplinary team. Oversee
- Ensure all patients receive comprehensive assessments.
- Maintain safe, effective escalation pathways for patient deterioration. Promote patient and carer involvement
- Manage workforce planning, rostering, and deployment across a dispersed service model.
- Ensure staff receive: Induction and training in virtual ward care and digital systems. Regular appraisals, supervision, and professional development.
- Foster a positive, inclusive team culture aligned to Trust values.
- Act as a patient safety champion.
- Ensure compliance with clinical governance frameworks, safeguarding, and risk management.
- Lead on incident reporting, investigation, and learning. Drive audit, quality improvement, and service evaluation. Maintain high standards of documentation and digital record keeping
- Support the ongoing development and expansion of the Virtual Ward model. Lead and contribute to service quality improvement initiatives.
- Build strong relationships with: Acute hospital teams, Primary care, Community services, social care partners. Represent the service at meetings.
Requirements
We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
- You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
- You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sharon Brown Job title: Matron Email address: sharon.brown2@lthtr.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07754200209
