Urgent Community Response (UCR) Nurse/Paramedic
Are you an experienced and motivated healthcare professional looking to make a real difference in your community? Join our dynamic and supportive Urgent Community Response (UCR) team! We are seeking a Band 6 Practitioner to provide rapid assessments and interventions, helping to keep people safe and supported in their own homes, avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions.
As part of the Urgent Community Response service, you'll work with a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality care to patients in crisis, responding within a 2-hour timeframe. This role is fast-paced, rewarding, and essential to delivering integrated, patient-centred care in the community. Our team also supports clinical delivery of the Virtual Wards (Hospital@Home) service, providing clinical management to patients with acute illnesses within the place they call home, rather than in a hospital bed.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be an experienced Registered Nurse in Adult Nursing or a HCPC registered Paramedic who will work across the UCR services. We would encourage applications from professionals with high level clinical skills, knowledge and experience in a constantly evolving environment.
As a Band 6 urgent community response practitioner you will:
* Provide rapid assessment, intervention, and care to patients experiencing an acute illness or sudden deterioration in their health within the community.
* Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to create individualized care plans, ensuring a holistic approach to patient care.
* Act quickly and effectively to stabilize patients and arrange necessary treatments, referrals, or hospital admissions when needed.
* Work closely with GPs, social care, and community services to provide seamless care and maintain patients' independence at home.
* Lead and support junior staff, offering guidance and supervision as needed.
* Take part in the development and implementation of clinical protocols, ensuring the highest standards of care are met.
The UCR team works 7 days a week covering shifts between 8:00 until 22:00. You will be expected to work weekends and bank holidays.
About us
A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to onsite nurseries, staff restaurants and accommodation.
In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme. Onsite parking is available from only £50 a year.
There has never been a better time to join East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, submit your application today.
Qualifications
* NMC registration
* Registered with HCPC/Paramedic 1st level degree
* Teaching and Assessing qualification
* Evidence of continuing professional development to diploma level in a relevant area of specialist practice
* Community Nursing Qualification / Nurse Practitioner Qualification
* Trained to interpret microbiology and pathology results
* Case Management
Experience
* Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner in either an acute or community environment
* Good understanding of working in partnership with statutory and non statutory agencies to support patient centred care
* Multi-disciplinary and multi agency working
* Proven extensive experience of working with adults/older people
* Experience in a Community setting, or gateway area
* Experience of working between other health and social care organisations /settings
* Ability to interpret blood results
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.
£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum, pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
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