Rapid Response Community Nurse (Home Care) in London

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Band 6 Registered Nurse to join the Wandsworth and Merton Urgent Community Response (UCR) service at CLCH. As part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team, you will deliver high-quality, person-centred care to adults in their homes and care home settings, providing rapid assessment, treatment and interventions to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and support timely discharge.

Working in a fast-paced community service, you will undertake holistic assessments, develop and implement management plans, and provide urgent clinical interventions for patients with acute illness, frailty, long-term conditions, palliative care needs and other urgent presentations. You will work autonomously, using advanced clinical judgement and assessment, while collaborating with GPs, hospitals, ambulance services, social care and community teams.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing skilled, effective and evidence-based nursing care to patients in a variety of community settings.
• Assessing referrals to the service, prioritising and responding appropriately based on clinical need and urgency, and within agreed service timescales.
• Using enhanced skills and knowledge to assess physical and psycho-social needs and develop a comprehensive and concordant plan of care with patients, carers and the wider Multidisciplinary Team as needed.
• Making risk assessments, establishing the safety or otherwise of patients' ability to stay at home, or return home safely from another care setting, providing and arranging necessary nursing and supportive packages.
• Providing autonomous clinical care to a range of patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed and/or complex health needs and long-term conditions.
• Delivering evidenced based clinical/therapeutic interventions in line with best practice, in order to improve health outcomes and promote choice.
• Working within Clinical Guidelines, Policies, Procedures applying professional judgment to work outside these frameworks where necessary.
• Delivering agreed clinical quality and performance standards within the Rapid Response team.

We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Every day, our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to the people who depend on us.

This role is ideal for a nurse with excellent assessment skills, a passion for urgent community care and a commitment to helping people remain safely independent at home where possible. As this role is community-based involving travel between patient homes, applicants must hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle for business use (unless exempt under the Equality Act 2010).

Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust's values & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Education/Qualification:

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Evidence of recent and continuing post-registration professional education and training.
• Qualification in teaching or practice-based learning.
• Qualifications in Community and/or Accident and Emergency Nursing.
• Physical Clinical Assessment Skills Course or willingness to undertake the course.

Experience:

• Evidence of recent substantial post-registration nursing experience.
• Extensive range of clinical skills and experience including bowel & catheter care, venepuncture, cannulation, EOL care.
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of working with people with complex health needs.
• Experience of implementing evidence-based care in practice.
• Experience of supervising junior staff and coordinating daily activities on a regular basis.
• Experience of undertaking comprehensive health needs assessment and writing care plans.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Basic IT skills including use of Microsoft Office package and email.
• High level of competence in a range of clinical skills.
• Principles of care for patients with long term conditions, relevant NSFs and other national standards.
• NMC Code of Professional Conduct and application to practice.
• Personal Development Planning.
• The audit processes.
• Clinical supervision - purpose and application.

Key Attributes:

• Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

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.

£47,951 to £56,863 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS.