IV Nurse Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Nurse to develop both clinically and professionally by joining our Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) service.

If you have recent experience of caring for patients with Central / PICC intravenous lines and administering IV medicines this would be an advantage, however, in-house training will be given to support development in this area.

Ideally you will have prior experience with treating and advising patients with clinical care. This could be either in and or out of the hospital setting, to include nurse-led clinics.

As a Registered Nurse you will be responsible for supporting your manager in ensuring that our service user’s needs are met through the delivery of high quality care. You will be working with an existing IV Nurse Practitioner and we are looking for someone who is able to work flexibly to cover a Monday to Friday service.

As a centre of excellence, you will be offer a person-centered approach to their independence and well-being.

We would like to hear from you if; you can work autonomously and have evidence of teaching and training staff, patients and carers. You have great communication skills, as you will be communicating with all levels of staff in both the acute and primary care setting.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will:

  • Support all aspects of service delivery of a Community IV service for patients attending the Royal United Hospitals Bath.

This high quality seamless service crossing organisational and professional boundaries in primary and secondary care will provide a safe alternative to acute hospital care in appropriately selected patients. This will minimise institutionalism, reducing healthcare associated complications including infections, significantly improving the quality of life of both the patients and their carers at all stages of the care pathway.

Person Specification

Qualification and training

Essential

  • Registered Teaching and assessing
  • Registered Nurse

Desirable

  • NMC recognised prescribing course

Knowledge and experience

Essential

  • Ability to work autonomously
  • Understanding of management of NMC code of practice and requirements

Desirable

  • Experience of working in primary care

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).

Closing Date: 11 October 2026

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