Sister/Senior Nurse

Overview

The Urgent Community Response (UCR) Team provides a 24-hour/7-day responsive NHS community service. The Band 6 UCR Practitioner can be a Nurse, Allied Health Practitioner or Paramedic. There is the flexibility within the multidisciplinary team to work across days, nights and to do internal rotation and you are able to work autonomously, managing patient assessments within the speciality whilst working as part of the larger multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care to patients across North West Surrey in conjunction with the wider Integrated Care System.

Responsibilities

• Lead the identification and clinical assessment of patients who will benefit from advanced complex hospital discharge care, or urgent responsive admission avoidance using the Virtual Ward if required, with care provided in their own home by the multi-disciplinary team.
• Work closely with the UCR Matrons, therapists, Paramedics & Operational Lead for UCR, Community Nursing, Frailty GPs, Adult Social Care, community services and the third sector to provide fast reactive services for patients with decompensated frailty and ensure rapid delivery of treatment and care planning to support acute hospital admission avoidance where appropriate with a focus on the 9 Common Critical Conditions - Falls; Decompensation of Frailty; Reduced Function/Deconditioning/reduced mobility; Urgent equipment provision; Confusion / Delirium; Palliative / EOL crisis support; Urgent Catheter Care; Urgent support for diabetes; Unpaid Carer breakdown.
• The UCR clinician will provide expertise within their professional discipline, to the wider team by providing case management using extending skills where appropriately trained to avoid hospital admission and manage sometimes complex clinical needs in the community setting.

Qualifications

Band 6 UCR Practitioner can be a Nurse, Allied Health Practitioner or Paramedic. There is flexibility within the multidisciplinary team to work across days, nights and to do internal rotation and to work autonomously, managing patient assessments within the specialty while working as part of the larger multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care to patients across North West Surrey in conjunction with the wider Integrated Care System.

Benefits

CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surrey's longest established NHS community services provider, so our employees get NHS pay and pensions. Fringe High-Cost Allowance of 5%.