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 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
We are proud to provide 'Outstanding' care and be a great place to work.
We provide safe, compassionate, and high-quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by over 7000 members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites, and in people's own homes.
In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as 'Good' overall, and 'Outstanding' for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated 'Outstanding'. Eastbourne DGH rated 'Good'.
In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious 'Building for our Future' programme. This once-in-a-lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop, and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description attached.
If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* 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
* 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.
£37,338 to £44,962 a year, pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
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